Lesson 4 from the Law of Success

Everyday I’m trying to read a lesson from Napoleon Hill’s book “The Law of Success in 16 Lessons” and today I read a lesson on initiative and leadership.

Initiative is the gumption to continuously go after a goal, mission, or accomplishment without having anyone, such as a boss, tell you to do it.  Initiative is an internal drive that is needed to push you through towards your goals.

Leadership is as vital! The first person you should concern yourself with leading is that man or woman in the mirror.  In order to lead others, and set the example, you have to be real effective at leading yourself!

I’ve learned this in the Marines.  Your Marines won’t respect you if you are talking the talk and not walking the walk!!  Sure a lot of people can talk the talk, but backing it up is key.

In fact, you should get so good at walking the walk that you don’t need to talk!

Think about it!

Rob Fraser

Think and Grow Rich Project – Day 2

Think and Grow Rich Project – Day 2

So I finished Think and Grow Rich for the 5^th time this morning and restarted the book.  I am at 4.80 chapters for today.  My goal was 5 chapters a day.  I will easily do it after my hot chocolate.

The funny thing is reading this book that many times I actually took a nap earlier and I swear I was dreaming that Napoleon Hill himself was reading the book to me.

Also I don’t know where your standpoint is on thinking about money and having it appear in your life.  I don’t really know what my standpoint is.  I believe you have to work for it.  I also believe that if you aren’t happy doing your work, then you won’t get much out of it.

I actually can “manifest” nice cups of coffee or a fridge full of groceries.  I haven’t been able to manifest huge sums of cash so in reading this book until it’s oozing out of my pores I hope to learn a little something about it!

Well, am keeping this short and I got to go finish my chapters for today!

-Robert Fraser-

Think and Grow Rich Project – New Day 1 My hard headed approach!

Think and Grow Rich Project – New Day 1

So I don’t know if you came across any of my blogs before but I started this Think and Grow Rich Project like a few times already. 

Well started and then decided to change it, now am starting again.

One problem I came across a number of times in my life was lack of persistence.  I would always be quick to start a project but never stuck with it to fruition.  So here again I am doing this.

It’s my goal to really document my success and results.  I am not guaranteeing anything.  I am not offering anything although I will provide links to my online business (like this one).

Other than that, I am planning on reading Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich 2 times a week.  I will do this until I have read through it 25 times.  I figured that by then it will have sunk and got through my thick skull.  Again I’m not promising anything.

I am also in two online opportunities at the moment.  I am also going to document my results from my three businesses in conjunction.  I will not be directly promoting them but I will have links to them in my blog posts.

So today April 13, 2013 I have $5 in savings (yes being brutally honest here)

My checking let’s just say is in the red.  I am currently getting anywhere from $1000 to $1960 a month for living expenses from the GI bill for going to school.  I am on my way to getting an AA in Business/Administration.  I also am currently waiting on payday which is the 30^th of April.

So in Empower Network (business #1 I am making $5 a day, breaking down my monthly residuals in a daily earning). INCOME DISCLOSURE STATEMENT!!

In Profit Clicking Premium I am earning $3.43 a day.  This is what I cash out, not repurchase.

So I am currently at $5 (EN) + $3.43 (PC) = $8.43 x 7 days = $59.01 a week online.

So there you have it.  I will read 5 chapters everyday of Think and Grow Rich and document my success!

Let’s give it a shot and see what happens!

-Robert Fraser-

Become a doer, not a talker

Become a doer, not a talker

“Some individuals appear to be “allergic” to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.”

”In any business, profession, or occupation, there comes a time when you have to deliver. You may fake it for a time, pretending that you’re giving an honest effort, but eventually you will be measured by your deeds, not by your words. If you are more of a talker than a doer, make a vow today — right now — to change your behavior. You may be able to drift through life if you never do more than you are required to do, but you will never know what you might have achieved if you had only been willing to give a little more. The greatest opportunities always go to those who have an affinity for hard work, not an allergy to it.”

The above quote is courtesy of the Napoleon Hill daily quote of the day!  Click here to get more information.

-Robert Fraser-

Think and Grow Rich Project Day 2

Think and Grow Rich Project Day 2

Intense burning desire, faith, and auto-suggestion!

Desire 

Intense burning desire, or as Napoleon Hill states white heat desire, is the first ingredient needed.  You have to want it as bad as you want to breathe, and that’s a quote of E.T. (the hip hop preacher/motivational speaker). 

If you want something bad enough, you will get it.  It is really that simple!  It doesn’t matter how long it will take, what you will have to do, or what stands in your way. 

Work on your desire until you have, literally, worked yourself up into an obsession.  Become consumed with your business, profession, or skill to the point to where you think of nothing else, and then you will become successful.

That is also why I am up at 3am writing this blog post.

Faith

If you don’t believe in yourself or what you are doing, then you will not succeed.  This has to be a deep down core belief that what you are doing will work and you that will make it work. 

Also on the other hand, if you don’t believe that what you are doing will work then you will not work hard at it.  It goes hand in hand.

Auto-suggestion

Auto-suggestion is kind of like affirmations or reciting a certain phrase or goal that you hope to obtain.  Even reading a good positive thinking oriented book is a form of auto-suggestion.

I’m not a big advocate of auto-suggestion and I know that I need to work harder at implementing it in my own life.  The hang up with me is finding an appropriate phrase to use.  I heard you have to find something that’s believable for you to obtain at the same time gets you real excited.

There is so much more I got from just those three chapters but am trying to keep these posts short and readable!

On to the next!

-Robert Fraser-

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Think and Grow Rich Project Day 1

Think and Grow Rich Project Day 1

I have joined the Empower Network (my online blogging business, in fact you can click here to join yourself) and have been following the 8 core commitments.  One of those commitments is to read daily.

I have since decided to do a little experiment with reading and my online business actually.  I picked the book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill and my plan is to simply read the book twice a week for the next 12 weeks. 

There are a bunch of different reasons why I’m choosing to read it so many times and over the course of the next few weeks will get into that.

I also plan on explicitly documenting what’s going on in my life in reference to my studying Think and Grow Rich and my business by blogging at least once a day!

I really want to see if reading really does influence and affect your life, well my life for you to see if you want to do the same things for yourself.

I have been relentlessly working on my negative and pessimistic attitude and this is part of that process.

So the plan is to read 5 chapters a day for 6 days a week, taking Sundays off to read other materials and such.

I am starting from essentially zero and am starting today actually.  I have made about $150 so far in Empower and have a few passive programs to where I’m earning a minimal amount each week.

My plan is to document where I go from where I am now to see exactly how the reading of Think and Grow Rich affects me.

Deal?

Deal!

-Robert Fraser-

Feel free to join me and leave comments if you are doing the same thing!  Also if you are interested in making some extra cash ($150 so far!!) by doing three simple things then click here!  If you have read this far, then you already saw two of those things!

On Reading “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

On Reading “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill

So I am just about to finish my fourth time through Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and as with other books, I get so much out of concurrent readings!

While it’s hard to really explain the full array of benefits that I got from reading this, I will highlight a few key points.

Can one really think themselves rich?

Well, it’s not so much thinking about getting rich to get rich.  It’s more so about changing ones attitude and way of thinking, in order to get to a better place in life.  It’s about changing your thinking to position yourself in a better place allowing you to make more money.

There are a lot of fears out there and it’s essential that we make ourselves immune to them.  Fear will create pessimism, procrastination, and just simply a poor attitude.  I have been subject to these for most of my life as I am sure everyone has!

The ability to think accurately; without fear, worry, or anxiety, is what will bring on the riches.

It seems so easy but it’s really a life long process.  Zig Ziglar has a name for it in which he calls it being a SNOIP.  A SNIOP is a person who is Subject to the Negative Influences of Other People.  Other people aren’t the only sources of negative influences either!

The media should be avoided at all costs as it provides a mass fear producing mechanism and if people are afraid, then they aren’t making themselves productive to society or even just themselves!

Another big thing I’m learning (stay with me here) is that every thought that has been thought is still in the ether.  Every thought ever thought by you is now a permanent part of your subconscious!  Even the thought you maybe having right now that you think I’m crazy but it’s true!

When I was a Marine, I remember doing an operation on a ship off the coast of Camp Pendleton.  On ship we work with HF frequencies and the interesting thing is that when the radio is on and silent, you can STILL HEAR TRANMISSIONS that were broadcast YEARS AGO!  It’s kind of spooky but interesting. 

Thoughts are frequencies which do the same exact thing!

The whole idea is to simply think more positive about everything and try to feel as good as you can.  

-Robert Fraser-

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Are you persistent enough to succeed?

Are you persistent enough to succeed?

I have been reading Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” and the chapter on persistence gets me every time!  Persistence is one of those things that is easier said than done for me.

What I mean by that is that I would start a new project and quickly move on to something else before I saw any major success!  I have done this in my military career, former marriage, and in my online businesses.

Persistence is sticking it out.  Yes I knew that, but I didn’t really know it.  I heard a phrase “to know and not to do, is not to know,” which means if I wasn’t actually applying it, then I didn’t actually know the information.

I am learning that the level of persistence needed is the kind of persistence that doesn’t care about results.  What I mean is that before I would start a project, not see results, and then quit.  Now I start a project I don’t care about results.

The only thing I’m focused on in my current online business is writing blog posts.  I don’t care if I get 20 leads, make $100 sale, or make nothing.  I find that by having that mentality is when I make the most money.

When I don’t care about the money is when I make the most money.  Sounds crazy but that’s how it works for me!

Hope you got something out of this!  Feel free to leave a comment or share!

-Robert Fraser-

Don’t let distractions rob you of productivity!

We all have been subject to this one of letting distractions rob us of our productivity! 

Today was one of those days for me.  I continue making the intention of writing a certain amount each day and it just didn’t happen.  I’m personally still working on getting things back together in my own life with my kids and ex wife and all.

It’s a sensitive issue and every time it is brought up in conversation, I end up focusing on those things which aren’t too pleasing and it robs me of my energy, motivation, and enthusiasm.  The main issue is working on rebuilding the relationship and getting all of my old debts paid off.  It’s happening, but not as fast as I would like it too but eventually I know it will.

The only way I found that I could work through it was basically after a few hours just opening a good book and reading for a while.  That book happened to be Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” 

I read the chapter on desire and a quote that I would like to share is “Wishing will not bring riches.  But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.”

Why I stop short of hitting my goals in different instances was because I lacked (and am still working on it) persistence which does not recognize failure.  I am also reminded of Thomas Edison where he failed 10,000 times trying to create the incandescent light bulb.  10,000 times, I mean I would have got so frustrated after 10 times and probably gave up!

So even in this being my blogging business, I haven’t even come close to 10,000 blog posts.  So if had to persist in order to become successful, then I must persist as well.

Don’t let anything slow you down!

-Robert Fraser-