LOA Today - Your Daily Dose Of Happy

We have been working through Napoleon Hill's classic for more than three months now, and we've finally gotten to the chapter on the subconscious mind.

Both of us agree that the subconscious mind is where all the "magic" happens that controls how we use the Law of Attraction.

It's where we use the "vortex". It's where we incubate thoughts that become things. And it can be either our best friend or our worst enemy, depending upon how we treat it.

Most of us let it run on idle, in default mode so to speak, with a net result that it gets filled up with negative stuff that ends up slowing us down and bringing us the opposite of what we want in life.

But it doesn't have to be that way. We can also deliberately choose to positively reprogram our subconscious minds to work to our advantage.

We have been working through Napoleon Hill's classic for more than three months now, and we've finally gotten to the chapter on the subconscious mind.

Both of us agree that the subconscious mind is where all the "magic" happens that controls how we use the Law of Attraction.

It's where we use the "vortex". It's where we incubate thoughts that become things. And it can be either our best friend or our worst enemy, depending upon how we treat it.

Most of us let it run on idle, in default mode so to speak, with a net result that it gets filled up with negative stuff that ends up slowing us down and bringing us the opposite of what we want in life.

But it doesn't have to be that way. We can also deliberately choose to positively reprogram our subconscious minds to work to our advantage.

A Master Mind is a group of people who come together for a common purpose. If that common purpose is you or your business idea, then you are the focus of the Master Mind.

We discuss this key concept in Hill's book and note in particular all of the ways we already use it in our every day lives.

A Master Mind is a group of people who come together for a common purpose. If that common purpose is you or your business idea, then you are the focus of the Master Mind.

We discuss this key concept in Hill's book and note in particular all of the ways we already use it in our every day lives.

Walt begins the discussion this week by noticing that each chapter we cover in this series seems to touch directly on his own life as well.

The trick with the later chapters in the book is that they seem to touch on the areas of resistance within each one of us. These areas of resistance are actually clues to where we need to work on ourselves the most.

We are resistant to the resistance areas.

So persistence in this sense is all about identifying our resistance levels so that we can keep going toward our goals: so we can persist.

Walt begins the discussion this week by noticing that each chapter we cover in this series seems to touch directly on his own life as well.

The trick with the later chapters in the book is that they seem to touch on the areas of resistance within each one of us. These areas of resistance are actually clues to where we need to work on ourselves the most.

We are resistant to the resistance areas.

So persistence in this sense is all about identifying our resistance levels so that we can keep going toward our goals: so we can persist.

Subtitled The Mastery of Procrastination, this chapter in Hill's book touches on what Joel and Walt agree is the #1 reason why people fail to achieve their financial goals in life.

Indecisiveness can occur for a number of reasons, including bending the opinions of others and feeling doubt or lack of confidence regarding one's own decisions.

The only caveat for this chapter is that both of us question the wisdom of telling readers that they must be willing to put their lives on the line in order to be decisive.

Subtitled The Mastery of Procrastination, this chapter in Hill's book touches on what Joel and Walt agree is the #1 reason why people fail to achieve their financial goals in life.

Indecisiveness can occur for a number of reasons, including bending the opinions of others and feeling doubt or lack of confidence regarding one's own decisions.

The only caveat for this chapter is that both of us question the wisdom of telling readers that they must be willing to put their lives on the line in order to be decisive.

Last episode we were only able to cover the first third of Chapter 7 on Organized Planning, so we continued the discussion this time on the rest of that same chapter.

The concepts contained in this chapter are essential to anyone who wants to succeed, whether as an entrepreneur or as an employee.

What really matters is what your attitude is as you approach the whole thing.

Hill also spends considerable time going over the fields of endeavor that promised the greatest opportunities at the time the book was published, during the Great Depression.

Ironically, the general fields he identified are still valid today, albeit in new and different ways from 80 years ago.

Politics, banking, and industry were the first three items on his list.

Here we are today with a banking and financial crisis in our recent history, a hugely divided electorate that elected a right-wing populist and nationalist to the White House, and numerous industries experiencing growing pains, particularly those of I.T., health care, and manufacturing.

Last episode we were only able to cover the first third of Chapter 7 on Organized Planning, so we continued the discussion this time on the rest of that same chapter.

The concepts contained in this chapter are essential to anyone who wants to succeed, whether as an entrepreneur or as an employee.

What really matters is what your attitude is as you approach the whole thing.

Hill also spends considerable time going over the fields of endeavor that promised the greatest opportunities at the time the book was published, during the Great Depression.

Ironically, the general fields he identified are still valid today, albeit in new and different ways from 80 years ago.

Politics, banking, and industry were the first three items on his list.

Here we are today with a banking and financial crisis in our recent history, a hugely divided electorate that elected a right-wing populist and nationalist to the White House, and numerous industries experiencing growing pains, particularly those of I.T., health care, and manufacturing.