The Science
Of Success Achievement
by Rick Gettle
The Science Of Success Achievement
(Excerpt From The Course) “Successercising
– The Science Of Success Achievement”
By Rick Gettle © 2005
In his all time best selling book, Think And
Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill mentions in his first
chapter that throughout the book he will be
referring many times to The Carnegie Secret.
He said he would not tell you what that secret
is, but when you are ready, it will jump off
the page and into your brain. He said, When
the Student is ready – the master will
appear. The doors will open. The lights will
turn green. The ideas will come. The money will
come. The people will be there to help you.
Since 1970 we have been teaching the principles
of success that Andrew Carnegie commissioned
Napoleon Hill to study and share with the world.
Napoleon Hill spent his entire lifetime researching
the most successful people of all times from
around the world.
Many, many times in our classes, workshops,
talks, rallies and in our Master Mind Alliance
Success Club meetings we have asked this question
to those in our audience who had read the book
Think and Grow Rich,
What is The Carnegie Secret that Napoleon Hill
referred to in his book? We got all kinds of
guesses and some answers that were somewhat
close. HERE IS ------- THE CARNEGIE
SECRET
1. HAVE A DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE.
What is the most important thing you would like
to accomplish in your lifetime? Try to define
it in one paragraph, even if you have to keep
rewriting it a hundred times until it gets as
clear as possible. It has to be the most important
thing in your life. Mahatma Gandhi’s definite
major purpose was to win independence for India
from their British rulers. He succeeded. Dr.
Martin Luther King’s was equality and
the end of oppression for black people. Doctor
Jonas Salk’s was to find the cure and
end for polio. Thomas Edison’s was the
incandescent light bulb. What is yours?
If you don’t currently have what you feel
is a definite major purpose, then have a definite
major purpose to find your definite major purpose.
It has to be something you want so bad that
you think about it all of the time.
2. BE WILLING TO STAKE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE
ON ACHIEVING IT. Don’t Quit.
There Are Many Starters In Life, But Very Few
Finishers – When The Going Gets Tough
They Quit. A person with a definite major purpose
never gives up – no matter how long and
tough the road is; instead, they become more
determined. Jack London was rejected over 600
times before he finally sold his first piece
of writing. Thomas Edison actually failed over
9,999 times before he perfected the incandescent
light bulb, and over 5,000 times before he perfected
the world’s first phonograph record player.
There will be times when everything in you will
tell you to quit – to stop trying, but
if you hang in there, eventually, you will –
you must succeed. Quitters never win and winners
never quit.
Persistence is the power to hold on in spite
of everything - to endure. It’s the ability
to face defeat repeatedly without giving up—to
push on even in the face of great difficulty
or danger. Persistence means taking pains to
overcome every obstacle, to do all that is necessary
to reach your goals. You win, because you refuse
to become discouraged by your defeats. Those
who conquer are those who endure.
3. KEEP INTENSIFYING YOUR DESIRE.
There are many “firemen” in life
that will come along and try to put your fire
of desire out. They will give you all kinds
of reasons why your idea or goal won’t
work and tell you to give it up, forget it,
or tell you “You can’t do it.”
You have to become an Arsonist. An arsonist
sets fires. Every morning when you wake up you
have to re-light and re-build the intensity
of your fire of desire. You have to eat it,
sleep it, walk it, talk it, and concentrate
on it until it becomes a red-hot flaming, burning,
obsessional desire that will eventually mow
down all of the opposition you will face throughout
each day. If you don’t, your Sizzle of
desire will fizzle down to nothing. I’m
not suggesting that you stop talking to or seeing
your family and friends – what I’m
saying is to keep focused day and night, seven
days a week. This will bring into play: THE
LAW OF HARMONIOUS ATTRACTION. Your
burning desire becomes a magnet. You will attract
that which you need; the ideas and plans, the
money you need, and the people you need to help
you. They will eventually gravitate toward your
desire.
4. Have Bulldog Determination And Perseverance
That Will Eventually Mow Down All Opposition.
Expect lots of problems, adversities, and discouragement
along the way. Go around it – go over
it – go under it – or dig a hole
through it – but don’t ever turn
back. Make your Definite Major Purpose the dominating
thought in your mind. It is a known fact that
people who have had great achievement –
formed the habit of making an “obsession”
of their Definite Major Purpose. Andrew Carnegie
said to put all of your eggs in one basket and
then watch the basket. Andrew Carnegie’s
definite major purpose, which he wrote down
at an early age and kept in his desk, was to
earn as much money as he can in life and then,
in the end, to set up the Carnegie Foundation
to give it all away to worthy causes. Even after
his death long ago, the Carnegie Foundation
is still giving away millions every year to
help mankind.
I have been teaching The Science of Success
Achievement Course since 1970. There were many
times when I taught the course to as many as
ten different groups per week. Some in major
hotels, some in large corporate training rooms,
in the YMCA, in hundreds of real estate and
insurance offices, in prisons, rehab centers,
and for many sales and marketing groups of people.
In all of my classes, (There were ten separate
4-hour classes to the course,) I always told
my students at the end of the first class –
“For your homework this week, I want you
to read the first four chapters of Think And
Grow Rich (I always had stacks of the book there
to sell them.) As you read each page, write
a list of all of the things the author is telling
you to do and the things he is telling you not
to do. Then, I want you to carry that list with
you every day and keep reviewing your list and
keep doing the things the author told you to
do. And then come back to class #2 next week
and tell the class about the list you made,
what actions you took as a result of reading
the book, and what results you got.”
At the beginning of the class on the following
week I would always start out by asking - By
a show of hands, how many of you read the first
four chapters of Think And Grow Rich? About
2% would raise their hands. The rest didn’t
take the time to read it. Then I would ask the
2% How many of you read the first four chapters
and made the list I told you to make of all
of the things the author told you to do? Usually
about three hands went up. I asked each of them
- How many items do you have on your list of
the things the author told you to do? The first
person said three. The second person said nine.
The third person said – 90 items
I asked the person who had ninety on her list
to come to the front of the classroom.
I said to the others - You people paid
good money to take this course because you wanted
to achieve greater success. How can you expect
the results you hoped for if you aren’t
willing to take notes and to put in practice
what you are learning?
Then I had the lady read from her list of 90
items. And the class was surprised at how powerful
and important the things on her list were.
I asked the class - How many
of you are speed reader? All kinds of hands
went up. Then I told them about an incident
when I was at a party and someone asked me what
I do for a living. I told him that I teach a
course based around the book Think And Grow
Rich. He said, “That’s a book that
we teach from at our speed reading school.”
Then I asked him, “What were the greatest
lessons you learned from the book?” He
tried to think and then said, “I don’t
remember that book so well.” I later found
out that he was a speed-reading instructor.
I thought to myself – There’s a
guy that can read 10,000 words a minute and
remember nothing.
Think And Grow Rich is so powerful that it’s
the kind of book you have to read very slowly
and carefully, many times until it becomes a
part of your life and habits. I have been reading
the book every year since 1970. Each year I
pull it back off the shelf and let it fire me
up for the achievement of my new goals for the
year.
Rick Gettle President/Founder The Master Mind
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