I case you are just joining me, I am reviewing Napoleon Hill’s book, A Year of Growing Rich, 52 Steps To Achieving Life’s Rewards.  Week 4 was a really informational chapter.  It is called “Some Succeed, Others Fail… Why?”.  It is a chapter that compares the behavior of successful people to that of people who fail.  Below I will list the characteristics of successful people.  I won’t get into the failure behaviors, basically they are the opposite of the successful person’s behaviors, and we don’t want to focus too much on them anyhow.

Specific Behaviors of Successful People

• Know what you want and have a plan for getting it.
• Believe in your ability to get what you want.
• Devote a major portion of your time to acquire what you want.
• Cooperate in a friendly spirit to carry out your plans and purposes.
• Think before you speak.
• Emphasize what you like about people.
• Express opinions only after becoming fully informed.
• Budget your time and money (live within your means).
• Be open minded and tolerant.
• Know what is going in in the world.
• Keep a positive outlook on life, at all times.
• Have a great respect for our Creator, and express it.

I love the following statement by Napoleon Hill in this chapter.

The successful person keeps her mind and outlook on life positive at all times.  She recognizes that the space she occupies in the world and the success she enjoys depend upon the quality and quantity of service she renders.  She makes it a habit to render more service than she promises.  The failure looks for “something for nothing,” or something under the table which she did not earn.  And when she fails to get it, she blames the greed of others.

These are traits that I am trying to adopt in my life.  I hope that you will too.  Then we can be successful together.

Eric

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