Think and Grow Rich VIII - The 6 Ghosts of Fear
Published January 28th, 2008 in Affirmations, Business, Health, Law of Attraction, Life, Life Success, Mastermind, Money, New Thought, Positive Thinking, Positive Vibration, Self Image, The Secret, VisualizationLast night our Mastermind group met for the 10th and final study of this great book. Yes it does have more than 10 chapters, but we have been following the guidelines of Paul Martinelli from Life Success Consultants. So last night we looked at the Epilogue - How to Outwit the 6 Ghosts of Fear. Napoleon Hill really brings the entire book and all the 13 steps to riches to a conclusion, by presenting the readers with a final analyses of what could still be holding them back. He mentions the three enemies which hold most of us back and which must be cleared out of the way. The three enemies are
INDECISION DOUBT FEAR
If indecision and doubt are left unchecked they will result in fear. And here Hill lists the six basic fears:
The fear of POVERTY
The fear of CRITICISM
The fear of ILL HEALTH
The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE
The fear of OLD AGE
The fear of DEATH
He says that the Fear of Poverty is at the top of the list because it is the most popular. He also makes it clear that poverty is a STATE OF MIND, nothing else! Poverty can give us so much misery and unhappiness, yet to this Hill says:
“and all this despite the obvious truth that we live in a world of overabundance of everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires except lack of a definte purpose and the plans that derive from it.“
So what I want to know is who of you can now indentify with this fear of poverty, or have done so in the past? Write it here and let me know.
Ok, when poverty is a STATE OF MIND, how can you change that state of mind
when your reality let see you the “the lack” you life in? When there is a
definite purpose and the plans that derive from it, but you fail over and
over? Thanks
Way back in 1966 I was in the final stages of negotiation with the Napoleon Hill Institute, in the U.S., for merger of my National Employment Report Newsletter with them. Then, I got myself smashed up in a classic car wreck. And, didn’t get back to my office until 1969, after 16 doctors had–finally–succeeded in putting Humpty Dumpty (me) back together. During that long interim the whold thing fell through.Since then I changed course, poured out 50 of my (total) 56 books.
Ah, yes, to oversimplify, one never knows does one? After that I devoted the rest of my working carreer in trying to guide people away from nodding their heads and walking in a straight line–same goal as Napoleon Hill, but by a somewhat different means.
Thanks for visiting my Blog. Yours is an example of beautiful organization (as well as optical beauty). I wish you the best of luck with your “mission.”
Thanks for visiting my site, Jim.
I posted a long comment on my past experience with the Napoleon Hill Institute, but don’t know whether it went through. If so, this make 2 comments from me.
Jolande, the secret is described in detail in Hill’s earlier chapters. In particular I would point to the chapter on Auto-Suggestion. Once you have determined your goal, wrote it out and put a date on it, you begin to read your goal statement a few times everyday, visualizing as you do how it IS LIKE being in possession of the thing your desire. It is not denying present poverty or lack, but believing, through auto-suggestion, in a different desirable outcome.
Thanks Jack. Your thriller sounds like a good read.