Category: Reflections On Sunrise

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
  ~ Napoleon Hill 

To open his chapter on Organized Planning, Hill write:  “You have learned that everything we create or acquire begins in the form of desire.  Desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, in the workshop of the imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.”

Hill then provides us with some basic instructions for Practical Plan Making: read more

“A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits!”
~ Napoleon Hill

What a pretty sunrise this morning, which took it’s sweet ol’ time to hurdle up over the peaks in the clouds. I sure hope this photo’s soft glow warms some hearts, as I hear another round of winter has descended for some of you (sorry!!) …

With this bit of extra time for my meditation, I was busy using that imagination of mine to envision a friend writing a musical comedy for Broadway. read more

“The imagination is the workshop where all plans are created.”
~  Napoleon Hill

Do you feel you have a strong imagination? I sure hope so !!!! Because it you don’t, you aren’t going anywhere fast. But on the bright side, imagination can be developed. Much like any muscle, your imagination will grow the more you use it …

Hill tells us that there are two types of imagination: Synthetic and Creative.

Most ideas will be born through the use of our synthetic imagination. We arrange old concepts, ideas or plans into new combinations. Synthesized imagination doesn’t create anything, it merely works with the materials of experience, education and observation. read more

 “I have a dream …”
   ~  Martin Luther King

What a beautiful quote, in honor of this fine man, as we continue our contemplations on “Thinking and Growing Rich” and The 4th Principle of Success or Specialized Knowledge.

Wikipedia says of King’s early life that he was “a precocious student, skipping both the ninth and the twelfth grades and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.” It’s worth taking a moment to read King’s bio on Wikipedia, noting the Principles of Success that King, like Gandhi, possessed: Specialized knowledge being one of them! read more

“Knowledge has no value except for what can be gained from it’s application toward some worthy end.”

It’s a still and hazy morning here in the Virgin Islands, creating a surprisingly nice filter to this morning’s sunrise.   I might have guessed this sunrise would be pretty, as friends posted some pretty spectacular sunset photos last night, one catching the elusive “green flash”.   Thanks Mother Nature for keeping me on my toes … There’s something to be said for just showing up with an open-minded attitude ! read more

“You, and you alone, must decide whether or not the reward is worth the price you must pay for it in effort.”
  ~ Napoleon Hill

The Third Principle of Success:  Autosuggestion.

“Nature has built human beings, so that, through our five senses, we can have control over the material that reaches our subconscious mind. ”

We have already been introduced to the concept of Auto-Suggestion earlier in the book, but it appears so important, Hill gives the concept it’s own chapter.  And we are instructed to come back to this chapter – which repeats the Six Steps of Turning Desire into Gold – and re-read it after we finish the book.  It is of such great importance, it will warrant repeating in practically every chapter !! read more