You are a thoroughly good person.You deserve a wonderful life, full of success, happiness, joy, and excitement.You are entitled to have happy relationships, excellent health, meaningful work, and financial independence. These are your birthright. This is what your life is meant to include.

You are engineered for success and designed to have high levels of self-esteem, self-respect, and personal pride. You are extraordinary; there has never been anyone exactly like you in all the history of mankind on earth.You have absolutely amazing untapped talents and abilities that, when properly unleashed and applied, can bring you everything you could ever want in life.

You are living at the greatest time in all of human history.You are surrounded by abundant opportunities that you can take advantage of to realize your dreams. The only real limits on what you can be, do, or have are the limits you place on yourself by your own thinking.Your future is virtually unlimited.

How did you react to the preceding three paragraphs? You probably had two responses. First, you liked what they said, and your fondest wish was for them to be true for you. But your second response was probably one of skepticism and disbelief. Even though you deeply desire to live a wonderfully healthy, happy, prosperous life, when you read those words, your doubts and fears arose immediately to remind you of reasons why these dreams and goals may not be possible for you.Well, join the crowd!

This is exactly how I felt many years ago. Even though I wanted to be a big success in life, I was unskilled, uneducated, and unemployed. I had no idea what I could do to improve my situation. I felt trapped between big ideas on the one hand and limited resources and opportunities on the other. Then I discovered a series of remarkable principles that have been responsible for all the great successes and achievements of the ages, and my life changed forever.

After proving these laws and principles in my own life, I began speaking, and training others to apply the same ideas. Since then, I have given more than two thousand talks and seminars as long as four days in length, in 24 countries, to a total of more than two million participants. Most of them were also skeptical when they first heard these ideas of optimism and possibility, until they learned what you are going to learn in the pages ahead. It changed their lives, as it will change yours.

Perhaps the most important mental and spiritual principle ever discovered is that you become what you think about most of the time.Your outer world is very much a mirror image of your inner world.What is going on outside of you is a reflection of what is going in inside of you.You can tell the inner condition of a person by looking at the outer conditions of his or her life. And it cannot be otherwise.

Your mind is extraordinarily powerful. Your thoughts control and determine almost everything that happens to you. They can raise or lower your heart rate, improve or interfere with your digestion, change the chemical composition of your blood, and help you to sleep or keep you awake at night.

Your thoughts can make you happy or sad, sometimes in an instant. They can make you alert and aware, or distracted and depressed. They can make you popular or unpopular, confident or insecure, positive or negative. Your thoughts can make you feel powerful or powerless, a victim or a victor, a hero or a coward.

In your material life, your thoughts can make you a success or a failure, prosperous or poverty-stricken, respected or ignored. Your thoughts, and the actions that they trigger, determine your whole life. And the best news of all is that they are completely under your own control.

You are a complex bundle of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, desires, images, fears, hopes, doubts, opinions, and ambitions, each of them constantly changing, sometimes from second to second. Each of these elements of your personality affects the others, sometimes in unpredictable ways.Your entire life is the result of the intertwining and interconnecting of these factors.

       Your thoughts trigger images and pictures, and the emotions that go with them. These images and emotions trigger attitudes and actions.Your actions then have consequences and results that determine what happens to you.

       If you think about success and confidence, you will feel strong and competent, and you will perform better at whatever you attempt. If you think about making mistakes or being embarrassed, you will perform poorly, no matter how good you really are.

Pictures and images, from your imagination or from the external influences, produce ideas, emotions, and attitudes that correspond to them. They then trigger actions that bring about certain results and outcomes.The thought of a person or situation can cause you to instantly feel happy or sad, elated or angry, loving or lonely.

Your attitudes, positive or negative, constructive or destructive, lead to corresponding images, emotions, and actions that affect your life and relationships. Your attitudes, in turn, are based on your previous experiences and your basic premises about how things are supposed to be.

Your actions trigger the emotions and attitudes that go with them. By the Law of Reversibility, you can actually act your way into feeling in a manner consistent with the action. By acting as if you were already happy, positive, and confident, you soon begin to feel that way on the inside. And your actions are under your direct control, whereas your emotions are not.

In and of themselves, the outer aspects of your life are neutral. It is only the meaning that you give to them that determines your attitudes, opinions, emotions, and reactions to them. If you change your thinking about any part of your life, you will change how you feel and behave in that area. And since only you can decide what to think, you have the ability to take complete control over your life.

The Law of Belief says: Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.You always act in a manner consistent with your deepest and most intensely held beliefs, whether they are true or not. And all your beliefs are learned. At one time, you did not have them.

       Your beliefs largely determine your reality.You do not believe what you see; you rather see what you already believe. You can have life-enhancing beliefs that make you happy and optimistic, or you can have negative beliefs about yourself and your potential that act as roadblocks to the realization of everything that is truly possible for you.

The most harmful beliefs you can have are your self-limiting beliefs. These are beliefs about yourself and your potential that hold you back. Most of them are not true. Most of them are the result of information you have accepted without question, often from early childhood. Even if it is completely untrue, if you believe yourself to be limited in areas such as achieving wonderful health and happiness and earning a lot of money, that will become your truth. As the author Richard Bach in his book Illusions wrote, 'Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours.'

The Law of Attraction says that you are a 'living magnet' and that you invariably attract into your life the people, ideas, opportunities, and circumstances in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

When you think positive, optimistic, loving, and successful thoughts, you create a force field of magnetism that attracts, like iron filings to a magnet, the very things you are thinking about. This law explains why it is that you don't have to be concerned where your good is going to come from. If you can keep your mind clearly focused on what you want, and refrain from thinking about what you don't want, you will attract everything you need to achieve your goals, exactly when you are ready. Change your thinking and you change your life.

Bertrand Russell, the English philosopher, once said, 'The very best proof that something can be done is that others have already done it.' In the New Testament, Jesus taught the way to measure the truth of any principle: 'By their fruits, ye shall know them.'

In other words, the only question you need to ask about any idea is, 'Does it work?' Does it bring about the results that you desire? Milton Friedman, the Nobel prizewinning economist, said, 'The only true measure of a theory or idea is your ability to make accurate predictions of the future based on it.'

The good news is that the ideas and principles you are about to learn have been tested and proven in the lives and experiences of millions of people. In themselves, like any principles of nature, they are neutral. Nature plays no favorites. Nature treats everyone alike. Whatever seed you plant in the ground, nature will grow.Whatever thought seeds you plant in your mind, nature will grow as well. It is entirely up to you.

Successful people are those who think more effectively than unsuccessful people. They approach their lives, relationships, goals, problems, and experiences differently from others. They sow better seeds, and as a result they reap better lives. If you learn to think and act like other successful, happy, healthy, and prosperous people, you will soon enjoy the kind of lives they do. When you change your thinking, you change your life.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. The man incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So start your journey of success from now and keep reading this Books

NO ENTITLEMENT OR COMPLAINING

1. While losers are pitying themselves and complaining, winners are working hard to build their dreams.
2. Those who act entitled do less, look at the world negatively, and accomplish less.
3. Dream-building is an athletic, strenuous activity.
4. The world isn’t fair, and that’s okay. The world isn’t trying to screw you over. You’re not that important.

ENTHUSIASM

1. Even for the lowliest of positions or occupations you have to take (unpaid intern or janitor)
   1. ““If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music … Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.” -MLK

2. Napoleon Hill spent his life studying the richest people in the world in person. He found this to be a key trait in rich people.

FORM GREAT HABITS

1. See The Power of Habit Book Summary
2. The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
3. Humans are creatures of habit.
4. The younger you form them the better. The older you get, the harder it is to form and break habits.

A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE (PMA).

1. This doesn’t mean to have an extreme, unrealistic optimism at all times. You can have a dose of realism. It means staying positive when times are tough so you can persevere.
2. Another Napoleon Hill success pattern.

HONESTY AND ETHICS.

1. Do unto others as you would them do until you.
2. In the modern world of digital transparency, your reputation follows you around. You can use this to build a massive brand people trust or one people run away from.
3. Be NICE to people. Be friendly. Be positive. Having a pleasing personality is huge.

THE WILLINGNESS TO NOT CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK OF YOU

1. When pursuing your goals, you can’t let your fear of people disliking you from stopping you from making the moves necessary.
2. Ray Dalio tested some of the world’s top leaders, like Bill Gates, with a personality test. He found that all of them scored high on being willing to have people dislike them to achieve their goal. Along the journey, you will inevitably find people who don’t like you and that’s okay.

A CLEAR VISION OF YOUR GOALS

1. You can’t get somewhere efficiently if you don’t care where you’re headed.
2. Write down your goals. Writing burns them into your subconscious.
3. Napoleon Hill says your purpose should be as definitive as possible. Sometimes, I feel you can’t have everything figured out and your purpose or career in life may not be crystal clear. However, you can still make your goal clear. For instance, my goal can be to test things out and find out what industry and career path if I don’t know what that is yet.

A WILLINGNESS TO KEEP FAILING AND LEARNING

1. As long as it’s not a big, unethical failure, such as one that lands you in jail or destroys your reputation, it’s fine. Do not fear failure or rejection. Don’t be so paralyzed you don’t act. 
2. Many types of failure have very small bad consequences. We blow it out of proportion. Failure is often times useful and necessary to get to where you want to go. They are learning experiences to guide you. Many successful people have failed many times whether it was in business ventures, ideas, products, or computer programs.
3. “If you’re not failing, you’re not trying.” See Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset book for more details.
4. One of the greatest problems is comfort of the mediocre. It is not so bad that it prompts you to take action and so you sit there doing nothing.
5. Most of the most successful people in the world (Usher via MasterClass, Seth Godin via Tim Ferriss podcast, and many billionaires) have failed 10x more than the average person. That is what increases their chances of success. They try more. 

MAKE DECISIONS THAT REDUCE RISK AND INCREASE REWARD.

1. Richard Branson found opportunities with no downside and massive upside. For example, he struck a deal to return his first airplane at no cost if his airlines business didn’t take off after the first year.
2. Napoleon Hill and Henry Ford both found that those who were unable to make a fast decision after all the resources were there usually failed to follow through and succeed in life.
3. Some people know what to do but don’t take action. Some people accomplish nothing by never taking action on what they’re told. They believe they have but they’re not.

NEVER GIVE UP

1. Patience in how long it takes you to achieve your goal, even if it’s several years or decades.
2. Perseverance separate winners and losers. If the front door is opened, try the window, then the back door, then sneak in with the pizza delivery guy.
3. The moment losers give up (which is usually after repeated failures) and winners persevere is the beginning of success.
4. Steve Jobs says he kept going when any rational person would’ve given up. Loving what you do helps you persevere. Find your bliss.
5. A lot of people give up when times get tough. As Steve Jobs said in the one interview he had with Bill Gates, if you love doing something so much, you will keep going even though everyone else has quit because it is logically insane to keep going. And that’s when the breakthroughs happen. Persist. Persevere when others don’t.

FIND YOUR PASSION

1. “If you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.” -Stephen King
   1. Passion helps you persevere

2. Ideally, you want to get to the point you are excited and jump out of bed to go do the work. There will be tough days for any job though.
3. You want to consider how competent you are at this work or skill. If your potential for competence will never be there than this may not be what your calling is.
4. I suggest listing out things you like and dislike about careers you test out to move towards things.
5. Look for the alignment between something you enjoy, something you have the potential to be very competent at, and something that can pay you (to accomplish this last point and really squeeze the juice out of this, you may have to be very creative and/or very entrepreneurial)
6. It makes it a lot easier to not give up because you enjoy it so much. You will keep going when others quit when times get tough.

DO WHAT UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE ARE UNWILLING TO DO

1. This requires Self-control (willpower).
2. While some activities will be fun because you’re passionate about them, you will still run into activities that you dread or despise. Going through the pain and putting in the hard work will pay off because others are unwilling to do so.

ALWAYS GO THE EXTRA MILE AND DO MORE THAN YOU ARE PAID FOR

1. Doing the bare minimum will give you minimum results and growth.
2. While you may slide by in the short-term, it cuts off your long-term potential.

FOCUS

1. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates say this is the number one thing. Focus on your craft and perfecting your skill is key. Warren and Bill focused intensely on computer programming and investing/accounting for years, which is what they say got them to where they are.
2. The more you focus, the faster you get good because you spend more time on it.

DON’T DO IT ALONE

1. The founder of Nike says great things are done by a team. You can’t do it alone.
2. Even Will Smith has a massive team he’s been with for decades working behind the scenes for him, including a business partner.

SPEND LESS THAN YOU MAKE

1. Simple but more important advice to build wealth.
2. The more you save, the more money you have to use to make more money.
3. Avoid spending money on items that don’t make more money. Clothing and cars generally rust and deteriorate in value.

HEALTH, FITNESS, AND NUTRITION

1. Take care of your body. You only get one.
2. Nutrition – eat healthy foods. This is fuel for your body. You already know what’s generally healthy. It’s common sense. Fast food and sugars in excess aren’t good for you.
3. Sleep – get as much as you need. Sleep deprivation destroys performance and focus.
4. Stress – eliminate as much as you can. This is partially mindset too. I am striving for a personality that cannot be stressed out or knocked. This is how some of the longest living people are like.
5. Exercise – I try to do at least 30 minutes of aerobic/cardio workout every day. This is key and this is what everyone needs to get to at the very least.

LIFELONG LEARNING

1. Learning doesn’t stop when you finish school. Go to bed at least a little better every day than you woke up.
2. Do this in a few key areas: Wiser (more knowledge), healthier (exercise/nutrition/etc.), and Richer (more money)
3. Billionaire Charlie Munger has said you do this for being wiser. Kevin O’Leary has said you do this for more money.If you have the fortune of living to an old age, these investments compound. Every small piece of knowledge grows to something huge overtime.

OUTWORK COMPETITION

1. Work and practice on your craft every day for hours. WORK ETHIC IS HUGE. If you can outwork your competition you are ahead. If you’re working while they’re sleeping or partying, you will get ahead in the long run even if you’re equally talented.
2. Will Smith, Elon Musk, Gary Vaynerchuk have all admitted how they work 3x harder than their competitors. When you’re taking a break, they’re working.

GIVE MORE VALUE THAN YOU GET

1. The more value you give out, the more opportunities you’ll get. Sometimes, it’ll take years for you to see the return because you want to build goodwill rather than one-for-one transactional exchanges. Eventually, you’ll get the opportunities to ask for something back.
2. “You can have everything you want in life if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” -Zig Ziglar
3. Give your music, give your craft, give your services, give your time, give your energy, etc. In time, the more competent you get at something, it will come back to you in one way or other, whether it is growing buzz about you or through connections.
4. People can sense when you have a hidden agenda to get something back immediately for something you gave for “free.” This turns them off.

BELIEVING AND SEEING WHAT’S TRULY POSSIBLE

1. We all have a number of assumptions or beliefs that are often not true.
2. If you don’t believe something is possible, you won’t even try. Without trying, your chances of success are the closest to 0% as possible.
3. Find your limiting beliefs, eliminate them, and you stop them from holding you back.
4. People thought artificial light, airplanes, and wireless communication were impossible and fairy tales not that long ago.