The basic step towards riches
In this chapter, napoleon hill talks with regards to the starting point of all achivement - propensity and desire. He writes that the propensity and desire or spur and momentum to achieve something in life may be so swell that any obstacles no matter how large or little may stop an person from reaching the goal he has set up for himself. A individual with burning propensity and desire, an obsession with efficacy and success may go to any lengths until he succeeds. Failure does not bother him and in fact he uses it as a stepping-stone to fuel his burning propensity and desire for accomplishment.
Napoleon hill mentions a couple of stories of daily mutual persons who in the face of insurmountable odds came out victorious. Read on to perceive how propensity and desire may alter a mans life.
Mr. Edwin c. Barnes had one consuming obsession of his life; in fact it was a burning propensity and desire to become a business partner with a swell inventor. So phenomenal was his propensity and desire to become the business companion of thomas a. Edison that he caught a freight train to orange, new jersey because he never had cash to pays for the fare. After arriving he straight made his way to edison office and staged himself and asked mr. Edison for a time and prospect to become his business partner.
Mr. Edison was very impressed with barnes ambition and determination that he gave him a prospect to work in the office at a very nominal wage. He worked with swell yearning and keenness but never gave up the propensity and desire to be his business partner. He waited for his time and prospect and when it came in the form of a new invention and discovery known at that time as the edison dictating machine. Mr edison? S salesmen were not very excessively affected emotionally over the machine. They believed that the machine had no future and thence syndication it would be a difficultness.
Barnes knew that he could trade the product and suggested this to edison who consorted without delay. Barnes did trade the machine and went to become edison? S partner. He was so successful that edison gave him a contract to disseminate and market the product all over the nation. In fact their business grew by the slogan,? Made by edison and installed by barnes. ?
So strong was his propensity and desire that he achieved what he was out for. That is all there is to the barnes story of efficacy and success!
So we see that just wishing will not make a individual rich but one should propensity and desire depth and richness with a state of mind that becomes a feeling and passion, then planning decisive and definitive ways and means to acquire those riches and not recognizing failure but persisting with a one track mind towards your goal. You can as well recognise that you may never have sufficient riches unless you work hard for it, it is a well known fact that as you shall sow , so shall you reap. You ought to recognise that each swell leader, poet or actor are dreamers. In fact so intense are their dreams that they see their dreams in impalpable and spiritual form before it may transpire into physical form. whether or not you do not see riches in your fancy you will never see them in your bank remainder.
Thomas edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, he put his dreams into activity and in spite of more than ten thousand failures; he stood by his dreams until he made it a physical realness
Lincoln dreamed of liberty and freedom for the black slaves, put his dreams into activity, and hardly missed living to see a merged north and south translate his dream into realness.
The same way wright brothers dreamed of a machine that would fly through air now one can see proof all over the earth how successful their dreams were. at all times do not forget that fair and pragmatic dreamers do not quit!
As napoleon hill says? All who succeed in life get off to a bad start out and pass through a heap of heart-breaking crises and struggles before they arrive? .
How may one harness and use the place and power of propensity and desire? This has been answered in this and the subsequent chapters in this book.
