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"Financial success is not difficult to achieve after one learns how to make practical use of creative imagination."-Napoleon Hill

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"Men will grant favors that you request for the benefit of a third person when they would not grant them if requested for your benefit."-Napoleon Hill

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"You will never know what is your capacity for achievement until you learn how to mix your efforts with imagination. The products of your hands, minus imagination, will yield you but a small return, but those selfsame hands, when properly guided by imagination, can be made to earn you all the material wealth you can use."-Napoleon Hill

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The Law of Imagination.

"IMAGINATION is the workshop of the human mind wherein old ideas and established facts may be reassembled into new combinations and put to new uses." Napoleon Hill 

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During World War 1, Napoleon Hill met an Army Major who was in charge of training new officers that were going to the front lines. During his time with the Major, the Major gave an address to the young officers instructing them on what it takes to be a military leader.

Mr. Hill was so impressed with the speech that he transcribed it completely for his book 16 Laws of Success.

Today’s discussion is a reflection of that speech.

Being in the military myself for 23 years I could really identify with what the Major was saying. I found it really interesting how what he said in WW1 is still valid today.

The Major noted several points of character attributes that are necessary for military leadership. His perspective was that a young officer would be immediately in charge of hundreds of other men, who in most cases will have more years of experience. This happens to be a very unique problem in the military.

So the major focused on character traits and behaviors that young officers must have to gain the respect and loyalty of their people.

My goal is to update this knowledge with 2020 strategies and tactics. What I found amazing were the same ideas that work for leaders during World War I continue to work for leaders today.

The ideas of respect, expectation, knowledge, service, and preparedness ring true regardless of the time or industry.

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Insights from the 16 Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill, published in 1928. Public Domain.

This article is the second installment of chapter 5 to the 16 Laws of Success talking about the Initiative and Leadership.

Brands of Leadership

According to Mr. Hill, there are two brands of leadership to consider. The Napoleon style of self promoting leadership and the Lincoln style of serving others. He considers the Napoleon style to be destructive and the Lincoln style to be creative in nature.

While he presents both styles for the readers to consider, he does make a strong point that neither style will work without taking initiative. As we spoke of before in the previous blog, leaders invite themselves to take ownership of the problems. By taking the responsibility they assume the power it wields.

Insights from the 16 Laws of Success by Napoleon Hill, published in 1928. Public Domain.

This article is the first installment of chapter 5 to the 16 Laws of Success talking about the Initiative and Leadership.

Link to Blog Post analysis of this reading.

“Having chosen a definite chief aim as my life- work I now understand it to be my duty to transform this purpose into reality.

Therefore, I will form the habit of taking some definite action each day that will carry me one step nearer the attainment of my definite chief aim.

I know that procrastination is a deadly enemy of all who would become leaders in any undertaking, and I will eliminate this habit from my make-up by:

(a) Doing some one definite thing each day, that ought to be done, without anyone telling me to do it.

(b) Looking around until I find at least one thing that I can do each day, that I have not been in the habit of doing, and that will be of value to others, without expectation of pay.

(c) Telling at least one other person, each day, of the value of practicing this habit of doing something that ought to be done without being told to do it.

I can see that the muscles of the body become strong in proportion to the extent to which they are used, therefore I understand that the habit of initiative also becomes fixed in proportion to the extent that it is practiced.

I realize that the place to begin developing the habit of initiative is in the small, commonplace things connected with my daily work, therefore I will go at my work each day as if I were doing it solely for the purpose of developing this necessary habit of initiative.

I understand that by practicing this habit of taking the initiative in connection with my daily work I will be not only developing that habit, but I will also be attracting the attention of those who will place greater value on my services as a result of this practice. Signed.......................................................... (Hill, 16 Laws of Success, pg 14)

This segment concludes the Chapter 4 of the 16 Laws of Success. There will not be an associated blog with this reading because all the main points have already been covered in depth.

In this episode, Mr. Hill tells of another story of a man who learned the Habit of Saving and how it benefited him.

The bottom line: Systematically save money and financial opportunities will be open to you. Don't and they will be closed.

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The Story of Mr. Freeman. A lesson in happiness and ruin. The story of Mr. Freeman is the story of every person who has tried to make good in their life. An attempt to provide more for their family and enjoy life to its fullest extent. Mr. Freeman was an advertising specialist in the early 1900s who over the course of 25 years accumulated over $1 million in income for himself and his family and had nothing to show for it. He wrote an article in a local magazine as a confession to his creditors in an attempt to salvage his reputation and provide a way back. Napoleon Hill reprinted his story with permission in the 16 laws of success as a lesson in a very common process that many people go through. This process is simple, the more you make, the more you spend. This is tied directly to our habits, whichever direction they take us. In Mr. Freeman‘s case, he had a strong habit of spending and that is what his life had to show for it. He states that he had no regrets for the life he lived. He did understand though, in the end, that he did not need to spend 100% of everything he made to live that life. That there were many opportunities to tuck-away a portion of his income that would’ve saved him from his debt crisis. https://www.keybravo.com/keybravo-blog/2020/4/28/a-broke-millionaire