Guide To Success For The Entrepreneur

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

1. ‘The Law Of Success’

   If I were to treat you with disrespect and make you feel awkward you probably would not want to be around me. If I were to treat you with respect and also smile to you, well then, you would welcome me. In the book, ‘The Law Of Success’, it talks about having a pleasing personality. One example was about insurance salesmen selling insurance and 99% of the people who purchased ‘life insurance policies do not know what is in their policies and, what seems more startling, do not seem to care. What they really purchase is the pleasing personality of some man or woman who knows the value of cultivating a pleasing personality.’

   Wow! That is so true. What about it? Do you think that? I do. How many legal forms or insurance forms have you read? I’ve read several but I also haven’t the time of day to read them all. I worked as a Real Estate agent for a few years and owned income property and would read all of that stuff. Now I’m like most everyone else. I don’t read the long legal durations of print because at the end most of the wording is not to protect you but to protect the company that is either selling the product or earning a commission being the agent helping you buy something, like real estate. Who has time to read all that? I bet you the lawyers don’t care if you read it or not. I think there are a lot of assumptions in contracts that help the company who drafted it.

   So you want to succeed? Read ‘The Law Of Success’. I don’t have a link for you to buy it, just go onto Amazon and buy it. But, so you want to succeed. Yes a pleasing personality helps. Are you the person who can turn it on and off, like a switch. Do you want a pleasing personality and  do you want to succeed? I think this type of personality is good to have, definitely.

   Rather than grind that into the ground, let’s move on and talk a little about a ‘Master Mind’. In the book it talks about all the positive stuff to build a group of people to help start a business for example. Thank God it doesn’t talk about any negative stuff that you can use this with. So yes we will stick with the positive forces of nature and not the negative forces of ‘evil’.

   Okay (humor), with that being said, you want to form a ‘Master Mind’ group, a positive one, a group that will help you in your business and keep you and everyone positively working together. That’s not to say that you don’t get the negative person now and then. You let them go and continue on building your business.

   Napoleon Hill writes: ‘Your business in life, or at least the most important part of it, is to achieve success.’ He also mentions that from using the fifteen laws that are contained in his book that success is ‘the attainment of your Definite Chief Aim without violating the rights of other people.’

   So not only will you need a pleasing personality and the ‘delicate art of allying yourself with others in a given undertaking without friction or envy’, you will also figure out what your Definite Chief Aim is. It is your goal. It is your ultimate goal. You can say that your Definite Chief Aim could be to ‘help you fellow man’ or ‘make a million dollars’. It’s your goal, it’s your dream that you end up writing out on paper and looking at each day.

   In fact we’ll get into that part later as you’re reading my post about a way to change your thinking by reading something every day. If you want something bad enough then you need to change your unconscious thinking. Enough of that right now.

   This is a powerful book. If you are still reading my posts, if you are reading ‘The Law Of Success’ and you are doing both then congratulations.

   I just wanted to start posting about this book because I am changing my life and I want to share what helped me do that. ‘Think And Grow Rich’ was definitely a great book to read to help improve your life, but ‘The Law Of Success’ narrows down in a ‘course’ form to help you improve and change your life, your business and both. I’m not explaining this good enough. If you follow the laws, pay attention to the detail and do what is in each chapter (law) you will change your thinking. If you want to think more positively…..this is the book; and if you want to succeed in a business…..this is the book.

   That’s all for now. Talk to you soon………