Do you want to change something in your life? Unfortunately, sporadic actions concerning your goal won’t result in its achievement. Learn 2 tips that can help you accomplish your goal successfully.
In this last of these rare videos, Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich,” discusses the law he calls “Cosmic Habit Force.” It has a positive and negative aspect. The negative one will attract what you don’t want. In its positive aspect, you draw to you the situations and circumstances you do want. He compares this law to Emerson’s idea of “Compensation.” Essentially, it’s a description of the current popular principle called the Law of Attraction.
~ Linda-Ann Stewart
Question: Why do old, negative habits return when I’m under pressure?
Answer: It’s natural for old habits, mental and physical, to return when a person has experienced stress or distress. The subconscious tends to use all its resources to deal with the current challenge, and has little energy left for a person’s new habits unless the person is very careful, aware, and disciplined. If you succumb to the old habits, once you realize it, you can re-dedicate yourself to your new, more positive habits.
Instead of wasting energy berating yourself, consider this a time when you’re strengthening your resolve and getting back on track. As a person reestablishes their new behaviors, those strategies tend to become stronger and more powerful.
I consider it more a practice than a relearning. You just forgot to practice what you know when the pressure got too great. We all do this from time to time. But each time we practice, it creates a deeper impression on the subconscious, and becomes easier to remember the next time the lesson comes around.
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In the article, 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People, author Cloe Madanes explores the ways in which people can hone their skills in this area. She starts with “Be afraid, be very afraid of economic loss,” and ends with “Be critical.”
With each habit, she includes an exercise to develop the unhappiness that goes with it. I found the habits and exercises illuminating. It illumines how a person can make their life unsatisfying without even being aware of it.
She also describes the benefits of being miserable. You wouldn’t think there would be an upside to this, but there always is or it wouldn’t be worth it. Only when someone reaches a point where the benefits no longer outweigh the detriments will they begin to change.
Although this is written in a tongue-in-cheek style, it’s a great commentary on how to avoid being happy. Even though it’s about being miserable, it’s also enlightening on what not to do in your life. If you want to have a happy and fulfilled life, these are habits you should avoid.
Read the article, and see if you spot any of your habits in her list. If you do, you might want to think about changing them.
~ Linda-Ann Stewart
People expect that when they set an intention and begin to follow through with it, it’ll be easy. Unfortunately, having setbacks is a necessary part of the process. Learn what pitfalls can teach you and how it can make you stronger when you’re fulfilling a goal.
Read the accompanying article Believe You Can and You’re Right.
~ Linda-Ann Stewart
In this rare video, Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich,” analyzes how personal initiative is important in success. You have to be able to motivate yourself to success without someone else dictating to you. If you want to be successful, the habit of personal initiative is essential. He describes several traits of a person who has this important quality. Also, he reviews the principles in the previous eight videos.
Every day you make choices. When you make the same choice over and over, it develops into a habit. Many times, you have habits leftover from earlier in your life that aren’t giving you the results you want now. Learn how you can change your outcomes by changing your habits, and get the results you want.
Your life is run by habits. One of the habits that is essential, but that is ignored too often, is the one of self-care. It recharges your batteries and helps you deal with the challenges you face. Learn how important self-care is and how you can include it in your life.
In this rare video, Napoleon Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich,” talks about the habits you need to cultivate and break to be successful. “Everything you do to or for another, you do to or for yourself,” he says. He describes 8 specific habits that you need to discipline to best use the master key to riches. Self-discipline is the only means by which you can improve your life.
~ Linda-Ann Stewart
If you’re ambivalent about a goal, you’ll vacillate and settle for your current conditions. Indecisiveness won’t help you succeed. To succeed in any venture, you have to make a decision to take the actions necessary for it. Learn how important committing to your goal or desire is.