The
supreme object of life is to live.
Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own
perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.
Oscar Wilde |
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| SUMMARY:
Discover the essential principle for realizing
your true potential. It is by far the most reliable
and practical way, to radically expand your personal
power, influence and life fulfillment.
In
here, you’ll uncover The Major Principle for
High Achievement as revealed by the major
researchers into the psychology of Greatness,
and how you can put it to work for YOU.
WARNING:
This is story about a brutal truth. What
you're about to read, flies in the face of commonly held beliefs
about personal development, but it's a reality that must
be told. |
| Dear
Friend,
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Have you been wondering why you don't have in your life all
that you feel you deserve?
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Have you been frustrated why you aren't being who in your
heart you know you can be, and why you're going around in
circles with the same limitations year after year?
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Have you read and listened to all kinds of books, inspirational
speeches, conventions, workshops and clubs, - yet your life
seems not to have changed at all... (or at best it works
v-e-e-e-ry slowly)
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Then
this could be the most important letter you'll read this
year. Here's
why:
You
DON'T need more Information!
That's
a bit of a contradiction to be making at the start of reading
an article like this.
But
let's be brutally honest, you really do not need 'more' information,
whether it's about health, success, or wisdom. I'm willing
to make a prediction here:
 You're
already drowning in it! You probably
have tons of books, eBooks, and articles around the home and on
your computer, - 90% of which is only skimmed through.
You
visit the internet regularly search out for information like this,
only to amass more things that you 'should' read. You may have everything
from health to wealth, from motivation to inspiration, from meditation
to self-actualization...
You've
got a small library going already, and many more to come.
While
this is really commendable and a great routine to have - for
leaders are readers - the only question is,
'How is it working so far?'
What
measurable difference are all
these new books, courses and audios making in your life?
(And
by that I mean real and concrete changes in your actions, in your
attitude, in your finances, in your health, in your relationships
and in your career.)
If
your answer is not that much, then this is your wake
up call:
The
information age is over!
More
information, a new best seller or a 'new program of the month' is
not the answer. You need to implement all this knowledge
you have amassed already and
you need to do it today!
To
quote
John Lennon, "Life is what happens to us
while we're busy making other plans."
We
need to master the fundamentals we already know. We need
a practical plan and a system that works to make measurable
and self-reinforcing progress. We need the support structure to
implement this expansive body of self-actualization knowledge.
I've
been there too, and I hear it all the time from others.
In working for over a decade as a life coach and helping
people to make changes in their personal life, they
all inevitably have been keen readers and personal development
enthusiasts.
They
almost always come in for coaching, to make the
leap from theory, to reality.
I'll
paraphrase some of the more recent comments:
“In
pursuing my dreams, I’ve been having trouble meeting my
finances. I have always believed in seizing the opportunity and
taking the risk to do what is in my heart, but now I’m stuck
in debt. How do I take care of these financial bills and obligations
that seem to be closing in on me all the time? I've read the financial
books and attended the seminars, but it seems like I’m trying
to pick up water with a bucket that has a large hole at the bottom.
Instead of making me money, they cost me money.”
“I continue to struggle in
managing my health and meeting my goals. I often feel disappointed
in myself for missing the mark. I keep slipping back into my
old ways of exercising very little and feeling unmotivated.
I start exercising, then after a few sessions stop. I decide
to quit the habit of smoking, but then I keep coming back to
it within weeks."
“I
don’t understand how ‘spiritual development’
quite fits into my life. I get a sense of its direction and how
it is ultimately of the highest value, but I live in a real world
which doesn't exactly reward this, nor is it something that I
can quite understand. How do I practically live a spiritual life
and how do I balance it with the real world?”
These
are difficult questions and they undoubtedly cannot be fixed with
a quick, offhand remark. When they come in for coaching,
I can hear their frustration in their voices. They represent so
many of us.
I
really feel for them. They have big hearts and start on the journey
of personal development in the hope of bettering themselves, their
families, their business, their community... i.e. in the hope
of making the world a better place.
They
start this journey, yet they never really get anywhere. Year after
year things stay the same, they compound their stress and debt -
yet keep clinging to 'the hope'.
Worst
still is when they become discouraged and loose all hope. To
deal with their disappointment, they become cynical of 'positivity
and optimism' and build a thick wall to keep themselves away
from further hurt, - as well as from life and love.
For
inside every cynic,
there's usually a broken-hearted idealist.
 If
you can identify with their frustration, let this be a 'warning
sign'. You
can't do what you've done over and over again in the past and
expect different results. Albert Einstein said this
is the very definition of insanity.
So
if you're willing to stick with me and read the following letter,
I will share with you a critical insight that will solve
this greatest of problems facing personal development. It
will give you more clarity than many seminars or courses
that cost thousands.
I'm serious here. I've been there too. I too have experienced
the same frustration.
It
hasn't been a sudden insight, but a distinction that grew
through my years in the coaching profession.
When I got this, it multiplied my personal effectiveness,
and the effectiveness of my coaching clients. More than that,
it continues to create higher and better levels of
performance.
This
is at
the heart all fundamental life changes - personally, socially
and spiritually.
Very
few actually 'get it', so pay very close attention to it
The
Master Key to Actualizing
All Personal, Social and Spiritual Development
Is...
The
Law of Habitualization:
The 'Master Key' to Realizing Your Greatness
The
master key to Greatness is putting into effect the law of
habitualization. Throughout history few minds
have fully understood this law and its profound implications.
In
fact only those who have been intimately involved in experimenting
with the keys to higher education have realized it. And
it usually has been after many decades of research
and experience. |
habitualization:
noun
1 : the act and process of consciously designing and establishing
positive habits |
Dr.
Napoleon Hill, the groundbreaking personal development author of
last century who researched hundreds of individuals of highest achievement
(and who is a central figure in the content of this course) -
only came to realize the law of habitualization towards the end
of his life.
After
working with hundreds of the highest achievers in the world and
putting together the major principles of success - he only saw
this 'missing piece' last, while working with W. Clement Stone.
As he expressed, this understanding was the culmination
of his life long study into excellence.
He
called this the 'Cosmic HabitForce Law' and defined
it as 'the greatest of all natural laws, for in
effect it unites all success principles':
"HabitForce
is nature's comptroller through which all other natural laws are
coordinated, organized, and operated through orderliness and system...
All of your successes and failures are results of habits you have
formed. ...
If
I had known of the existence of the law and of
its working principle at the beginning of my research, I could
have organized a philosophy with which an average person can become
self-determining, in a much shorter period of time."
Dr. Napoleon Hill
 Similarly,
Dr. John Dewey, perhaps the most influential educational philosopher
of last century, (who spent decades experimenting with cutting edge
educational technologies), ultimately concluded:"All
habits form our effective desires and they furnish us with our working
capacities. They rule our thoughts, determining which shall appear
and be strong and which shall pass from light into obscurity.
Formation
of ideas as well as their execution depends upon habit. A wish
gets definite form only in connection with an idea, and an idea
gets shape and consistency only when it has a habit back of it."
The
Law of Habitualization is a enormously powerful principle. In
fact, one of the first persons in our history to consciously use
and apply this principle in a major way, was Alexander the Great.
By
the mastery of this law (within the mindset and values of the
times), he conquered and unified most of the known world, was
undefeated in battle even against enemies vastly superior in strength
and number, instituted some of the first systems of universal
education and strategic planning... and all in all, permanently
shifting the destiny of our civilization.
All
this was possible because Alexander the Great had one of the best
'life-coaches' of all time, Aristotle. This
master philosopher, (who was in turn coached
by Plato, who was in turn coached by Socrates), taught
the 'HabitForce principle' to Alexander and challenged him to establish
Great habits from a young age.
Greatness
has a simple formula, Aristotle wrote:
"Greatness
comes about as a result of habit!
We become just by doing just acts,
temperate by doing temperate acts,
brave by doing brave acts.
We
are what we repeatedly do.
Greatness, then, is not an act,
but a habit."
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And
it makes perfect sense doesn't it?
Your
greatness or mediocrity, your successes or failures, your
wins or loses in life are not the result of one incident,
and it is not an 'all or nothing affair'. It is a
gradual and compounding process.
Failure
for example, is not something that 'just happens'.
It
is the result or the fruit of a long series of choices that
were made or not made. It is the fruit of choosing
to think in a particular way. It is the fruit of the purpose
that is pursued day in and day out. It is the fruit
of the consistent actions taken or not taken. It is the fruit
of the person brought out in conversations, the words chosen
to say or not to say.
All
these factors add up. Horace Mann, the father of American
public school education used to say, "habit is
a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we
cannot break it."
 In
fact, by far the most common way to failure,
is by the habitual act of casualness and complacency towards
the small duties and vices of life. As the
poet John Dryden put it:
"Ill
habits gather by unseen degrees, —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
Your
Greatness, your successes and wins are also compounded habits.
Like
for Alexander, you realize Greatness by the process of gradual
compounded accumulation of good disciplines. It
is not an overnight thing. You reach it when a sufficient
amount of effective 'small habits', stack up on one another,
to ultimately construct a big achievement.
Success
is the accumulation of choices to think positively - when
it's easy to be pessimistic. It is the accumulation of pursuing
the purposes of love, truth, beauty and freedom. It's a series
of small constructive actions like these, which accumulate
over time into a mighty stream.
A
successful man or woman may enjoy a lifestyle that is 10 times,
100 times or 1000 times more affluent than another, and it
is not because of their intelligence or quantity of labor
they do. That is impossible. It is always
done through quality - through consistently getting
better at small tasks...
In
short, it's in their habits.
In
fact, if you were to take one message out of this article,
it would be for you to remember, that high achievers,
inspiring leaders, virtuous men and women - are simply those
with achievement habits, with leadership habits, with virtuousness
habits.
For
what kind of destiny or destination we end up having in
life, is largely a question of who we are - our character.
And
who we are, is a matter of the habits of that we have in
place, day in and day out - in thought, action and emotion.
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You
don't need more Information.
You need the Practice and Habitualization!
If
we first shape our habits, we can then have our habits shape
us.
| Information
about what to do abounds. The internet is super-saturated
by it. Just put in an idea on a search engine and millions of
pages show up. It's very easy to get overwhelmed. We
surely cannot read it all, and surely it's not all of equal
value and benefit. |
Both
success and failure
are largely the results of habit!
Napoleon Hill |
That's
why most make so little gains from personal development.
That's where most 'lose it'.
They
jump from program to program, from book to book, from idea to
idea and never really integrate anything solid into their
character. 
For
when who you are in habit doesn't change,
- nothing changes for you.
Change
is wholly dependant on who you habitually are.
When your habits change - everything changes.
We
all are where we are today, because of the habits we had
yesterday, - and we cannot be somewhere better tomorrow,
without habitualizing a better mode of being today.
HOW
TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
A
Complete System to Habitualize
The Principles of High Achievement and the
Character Traits
of Great Men and Women - into Your
Actions, Mindset and Moral Fibre
 As
of right now, you can be part of a unique and comprehensive
coaching program in Greatness unlike anything you may have
experienced.
It
is unlike any other educational program in the world, because
it integrates the major principles of success with the latest
coaching technologies, to support you in habitualizing
major objective patterns of Greatness.
The
whole purpose of this course here is help you to integrate what
we already know to be 'the DNA' of the Great men and women,
within ourselves. It is systematically organized,
so that step by step,
YOU
END UP OWNING THE HABITUAL PATTERNS
OF THOUGHT, EMOTION AND ACTION
of the Greatest people that ever lived.
Just
What Are the Habitual Patterns of Greatness?
This
is actually no small question to answer. Almost everyone seems
to have an opinion on the subject. Bookseller lists are full
of titles announcing innumerable 'steps', 'principles' and 'secrets'
for high achievement. Even the trashiest of magazines seem to include
an article on 'living you dream' and 'believing in yourself' somewhere...
It's
easy to become overwhelmed.
But
this is different. We have foregone the temptation to create a
subjective and anecdotal account of what 'we' believe constitutes
Greatness.
What
is here, is an integration of the objective findings
of Greatness - in particular, the two best researchers into the
subject: Dr. Abraham Maslow and Dr. Napoleon Hill:
Hill
and Maslow, over a combined period of neraly half a century,
observed the patterns of hundreds of the most successful, influential
and self-actualized people in the world - and created a complete
scientific map of their characteristics.
Their discoveries paved the way for the whole range of personal
development and positive psychology principles that we have today.
They are the original and the best.
What
we have done, was to find the 'sweet spot' between their unique
research methods, and to integrate it with the latest findings
in higher consciousness development:
You
will be hard pressed to find more reliable, comprehensive
and time tested means to personal development than to integrate
Dr. Hill & Maslow's wisdom into your life.
Their
ideas continue to be the most profound and reliable theories
into personal development today, because they're essentially
based on evidence: i.e. they understood Greatness,
by studying the greats.
This
course here is dedicated to these two remarkable men. We
are deeply indebted to their mission to research and then teach
their findings to the world. This course and its ability to
transform lives, is only made possible because we stand on their
gigantic legacy.
We
don't need to reinvent the wheel. Between Dr. Hill's 'street
smarts' and Dr Maslow's 'academic smarts',
we have a highly trustworthy road map to Greatness.
When
you embrace and live out what they had to teach, high achievement
will be the natural effect, of you being the primary cause.
Taking
the Works of Dr. Hill and Dr. Maslow to the Next Level:
 My
part has been to take their theories and transform them
into a unified, practical application system - a set of practices
for cultivating Greatness.
Through
further research, I have integrated Dr. Hill's laws of success
with Dr. Maslow's characteristics of self-actualizers
into a system for self-actualization.
I
believe it is a natural extension of their work... While
Dr. Hill & Maslow's research discovered the essential ELEMENTS
of Greatness, this course here sets the FRAMEWORK by which any participant
may replicate the DNA of Greatness into their own lives.
Like
Hill & Maslow, this also came about through research.
It involved a three phase process:
  A
Literature Review Research of Hill's & Maslow's works
(at Monash University, Melbourne, in the context of Masters
of Education) that sought to discover the common principles
between these two researchers and create a unified theory
An Action Research Project with focus groups
(at Swinburne University, Melbourne, in the context of Masters
of Business) that sought to understand the practical experiences
of coaches and coachees in the process of making life changes
A
Vision Quest (in the wilderness of Tasmania, for
an isolated period of 40 days) to intentionally strip away
superfluous ideas and distill the knowledge into a simple, streamlined
system for habitualization, that can be effectively learned by
almost anyone.
As
such, this course emerged from this methodical analysis
of the process of self-actualization - in order to to replicate
it - i.e. to integrate principles
upon
a habitual way of practice, perception and predisposition.
This
course makes Dr. Hill and Maslow's theory, a part of your
being - so that no goal, no ambition, no dream is beyond your
capacity to realize.
(if you'd like to read more about the research, click here)
I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.
Half of the things you do you might as
well turn over to me
and I will do them - quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed - you must be firm
with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done
and after a few lessons, I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of great people, and alas,
of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine though I work with the
precision of a machine
plus the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin -
it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and
I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I? I am Habit.
So
let's now begin with Napoleon Hill, for his history itself is
a fascinating example of what is possible when applying these
principles.
His
journey to greatness, in putting together the world's first practical
philosophy of success, in becoming the most influential teacher
of personal development (with some of the most successful people
in the world as his students) and having one of the biggest selling
books of last century - all began from the most unlikely of beginnings.
 Mr.
Hill could quite easily have been just another journalist, working
for a small-town newspaper in Wise County, Virginia - if it wasn't
for an encounter with a man named Andrew Carnegie.
Mr.
Carnegie was a businessman who became the richest man in the
world early on in the last century (at his highest having
created a fortune in today's figures of $298.3 billion dollars).
Once having got there, he then spent the remainder of his life
giving away his fortune in charitable projects:
like building libraries, world peace foundations and educational
institutions.
What
is most remarkable about Carnegie, is that he was born in
a very poor working class family. He lacked to begin with,
many of the resources most think are necessary for even modest
success - like a formal education or social connections.
His first job was to change spools of thread in a cotton mill,
working twelve hours a day, six days a week for $1.25.
In
his childhood though, he saw the humiliation his dad had to endure
at the mercy of the economy, how he had to beg for work, and so
early on, he decided to become rich,
by the power of his will. And
as history has shown, he did it with spectacular results.
Carnegie
met Hill during an interview session. Hill initially worked as
a journalist and had a fascination with what made others successful
in life. During the meeting, Carnegie suggested that if he
was really serious about the philosophy of success, that he should
undertake a massive research project and systematically identify
the principles responsible.
Since
he had contacts with the most powerful and successful people in
USA at the time, Carnegie offered himself to arrange the necessary
connections - so that Hill could interview them, and where possible,
to follow them around, and observe just what makes them tick -
i.e. what makes them great.
Carnegie
himself knew that high achievement isn't an accident,
nor something reserved for 'extraordinary talents', nor 'lucky
breaks'.
There
are certain laws of the universe, that when applied, when harnessed,
they create success with undeniable certainty and causality
- just like any of the physical laws that have launched the technological
revolution of the last millennium. After all, he was a living
example of what is possible with their application.
Carnegie
already intuitively knew about the principles that were responsible
for his prosperity, but wanted to commission the creation of a
reliable and comprehensive study into the matter - as to create
the first practical philosophy for success.
He
wanted to know what principles were observable universally, across
a large number of high achievers, to ensure consistency and not
just a collection of personal opinions. So
he enlisted Mr. Hill into the project, essentially on the basis
of his enthusiasm and ability to quickly and resolutely decide.
Soon
enough though, Mr. Hill began to doubt his ability - that he perhaps
chose the wrong person for the task, because he was young, lacked
the education and lacked the finances to even support himself
during this long project.
It
was then that Mr. Carnegie began coaching Mr Hill on what he
has learned about success in life, and delivered an unforgettable
lecture that changed Hill's entire life. He began with this:
“Let
me call to your attention a great power, which is under your control.
A power that is greater than poverty, greater than the lack of
education, greater than all your fears and superstitions combined
– it is the power to take control of your own mind and direct
it to whatever ends you may desire.
This
profound power is the gift of the Creator, and it must have been
considered the greatest of all of his gifts to man, because it
is the only thing over which man has the complete and unchallengeable
right of control and direction."
 In
fact, what Mr. Carnegie revealed to Mr Hill next, caused him to
set a range of goals so far above his previous achievements, that
it literally shocked his friends and relatives when they
first heard about them.
But
what's more impressive, is that he, like Mr. Carnegie, fulfilled
all of the goals he set - further confirming the power these principles
have when applied.
Just
what did Mr. Carnegie reveal to Mr. Hill that made the difference?
The
Two Envelopes:
Mr.
Carnegie gave Napoleon Hill the following powerful metaphor:
"Everyone
comes to the earth plane with the privilege of controlling his
mind power and directing it to whatever ends he must choose.
But
everyone brings over with him at birth, the equivalent of two
sealed envelopes. One is labeled,
The
other is labeled,
"Now
let me reveal to you the contents of those two sealed envelopes"
stated Mr Carnegie,
"in the one labeled RICHES,
here is the list of blessings you'll receive:
In
the sealed envelope labeled penalties,
here is the list of prices you
must pay
for neglecting to take possession of your own mind:
"When
you speak of your poverty and lack of education", continued
Mr Carnegie,
"you are simply directing your mind power
to attract these circumstances - because what
is true, is that whatever your mind feeds upon, your mind attracts
to you."
What
Carnegie got Napoleon Hill to understand, is that when you let
your mind take it's own course and neglect it's proactive cultivation
- it ultimately brings ruin. The way of living
life 'by default' often comes with a heavy price tag.
Our
mind is by nature designed for leadership from a higher part of
self than the casual chatter that characterizes our internal mental
world.
We
tend to think (or at least by our actions we demonstrate that
we do), that the world is 'out there' and what we say about it,
how we label it and judge it with our internal commentary -
well, this makes little or no difference to what happens externally.
But
the reality is (in contrast to what one would prefer it to be),
that time and time again, we find an almost universal agreement
between all the Great men and women in our civilization and civilizations
past, that the exact opposite is true - that we always
reap what we sow in thought.
Having
a mind is much like having an enormous plot of land.
Cultivate it and you have all the beauty of a perfect garden,
all the abundance of a well managed farm, all that is possible
to realize on a property - with intelligence, with observation,
with design. Fail to cultivate it though and it will be the
ground for mostly weeds and thistles...
Yes, some can find some nourishing 'wild-bushes' in their plot
to snack upon, but nothing can beat the Good that one
can enjoy, when applying the law of intelligent organized cultivation.
That's what habitualization is all about!
So
the first choice to think about as we begin this course is just
this...
What
is the state of your 'inner land' like?
... one of Neglect or of Responsible Cultivation?
This
is the essential choice that one must make in order to reach one's
full potential. Just like cultivating one's physical
aspect through diet and exercise brings about the desirable good
of physical health, beauty, energy and vitality - so the cultivation
of mind brings about the desirable good of a Great life.
 It
is the cultivation of the mind that in fact determines all
Goods one enjoys, including peak physical health.
The choices for exercise, for a healthy diet, for putting
in check addictions and so forth, are really but a subset
of the mental habits one has in how to direct the body. The
mind is the groundwork for all the actions you take or don't take,
how you rationalize the choices you make to yourself and so on...
So
for today, I'd like for you to just self-evaluate your
present way of directing and controlling your own mind,
or even if you have such a system set up for yourself.
with love,
John Angheli
Engage in the business of training for
success.
Just as the physical body, to be properly developed,
calls for many forms of systematic exercise, the mind also requires,
for its development, a variety of exercise. ...
The mind must be trained in a similar
manner,
by a variety of thought-inspring stimuli.
Napoleon Hill
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