Think and Grow Rich: The Lost Secret

Once You Make the Decision, It’s Final Napoleon Hill spends a great deal of time talking about decision-making in Think and Grow Rich. He notes that many successful people are almost completely stubborn about their choices once they’ve committed to following through with a decision.

Napoleon Hill himself recommended this strategy in Think and Grow Rich when he wrote that you should not write your goals down without then taking some sort of immediate action toward those goals.

So another way that you could “act as if” you were wealthy would be to invest what money you have in appreciating assets,

Dorothea Brande who wrote a great classic book called Wake Up and Live wrote, “All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.”

To get a good idea of what a depreciating asset looks like, go to your nearest pawn shop. Most of the things in there, with the exception of some of the jewelry, are depreciating assets.

But the chances of it happening to you are a bit unrealistic. Many successful people will tell you that their hard work, their near-obsession with their success is what propelled them to achieve great things. It didn’t send them off any “deep end.” Life balance is not as difficult as many people think. You can reach a white-hot level of desire and

I’ll learn then - whatever it takes.”

So lets look at how wealthy people think. One of my favorite Jim Rohn quotes is “Rich people have big libraries. Poor people have big TVs.”

Think about it this way: each of the three principles – faith, desire, and action - feed into each other. There is no desire if you can’t get up and move toward your goal. There is no faith that you’ll get something if you know you don’t desire it. And you certainly aren’t going to act on something that you don’t believe you can get.