This weekend I re-read Napoleon Hill’s classic book, Think and Grow Rich.
I bet I have written about this book a dozen times, and I’ve read it dozens more, yet it had been a number of months since I cracked it open.
And, to be honest, I noticed it. My thinking had become a little loose, and reading Hill’s book brought me back around to two powerful ideas.
One crucial reminder is the importance of having a “Chief Aim,” which means getting absolutely clear on what you want.
This means limiting distractions, but, most importantly, it means having such intense burning desire for what you want, that you are magnetically pulled toward it.
Over the last few months my focus has shifted around a lot, and reading Napoleon Hill I was reminded to keep coming back to my core.
The second powerful reminder is action.
The title of Napoleon Hill’s book is to “Think,” but his book is all about action.
From the types of bold actions that dreamers like Henry Ford took by thinking a certain way, to the small actions, the minutia, that matters to winning in this highly competitive world, Hill intimately ties together the power of dreaming with taking action.
And this really is the key to all success, isn’t it?
Taking the wrong actions with too little thought is as much of a trap as thinking too much and taking too few actions.
Think and Grow Rich is full of powerful ideas, yet it is this theme of bringing together thinking and actions that is most repeated throughout the book.
I don’t think you can be reminded often enough of the power of these ideas.