Think and Grow Rich
Some books in the library never were meant to sit on the shelf.
I have started re-reading Think and Grow Rich and realize that it is a book you have to constantly update in your mind.
If you happen to be reading this article and haven’t read this book I would recommend you buy it for yourself now and start reading and working on it and make a committment to having it as a part of a daily ritual.
Why is Think and Grow Rich so important?
Is it right to think about money?
Isn’t it just about being greedy?
Think and Grow Rich is a book about how to transmute what you care about into money. It is a book about money consciousness. The point being that if you don’t have money consciousness, meaning learning how to use your gifts to turn them into money, then it will be impossible to ever have and keep your money.
A lot of people make money, but few master it. Think and Grow Rich is a really great book because it shows you the high road to riches. Poverty in monetary terms is a reflection of disregard for certain laws of character. Having a lot of money through less than moral methods will not bring a person happiness nor leave a legacy. We have seen many examples of the demise of such people throughout history and you definitely don’t want to be in that group.
But, just barely getting by financially is not a virtue either. That is not what free enterprise is all about, but we have been trained to be servants to the system and not masters of it.
So, Think and Grow Rich is almost like reading the Bible. It is a book of truths about how to become successful in life and how to create wealth for yourself in the process without selling your soul to the devil. In fact, in a later book by Napoleon Hill, ”Outwitting the Devil”, Hill points out that it is the Devil that thrives on keeping us fearful and poor and the result is being kicked out of the ‘Garden of Eden’ of prosperity which the world of free enterprise is.
The world is not dog eat dog, that is the devil’s words. The would is a balance or scale, giving you what you want by you giving to the world your unique gift.
But, and this is the point of the book…
You can give to the world all of your gifts and if you don’t have money consciousness you will not ever be compensated for that compensation financially.
Is it important to be compensated financially?
Isn’t it enough to reap ”spiritual” rewards and be happy?”
The answer is, shouldn’t the well intentioned people who work hard to give their gifts to the world be compensated financially more than those who aren’t well intentioned? If those whose moral standards are high can’t become finanically wealthy then what does that say about our society, that only the crooked win? No! That is not the way things should be. But often the people of high moral character are subverting the value of free enterprising by not participating in it and claim ”spiritual” victory as being enough compensation.
The ”spiritual” compensation for doing good works is going to come regardless of whether you make money from your efforts or not, what is important for our society to grasp is that it is important that those good works also receive financial success as well, which will improve the standards by which our society functions.
It is impossible for good works to produce high ”spiritual” rewards AND high ”financial” rewards unless those good people are money conscious, and it is important that they do.
Think and Grow Rich is a book about money consciousness. What you get in life and how you feel, the values you hold dear are all about the quality and the focus that your thinking produces.
Without being clear, crystal clear, about what your life means to you and without a definite plan and the cooperation of like minded people around you life is a struggle.
The body does as the mind commands and the world gives you what your mind demands.
For me, it is a huge challenge to face the fact that I have lived a life by chance and not a life on purpose. To change myself inside this book is a huge guide in how to do that.
So is the book all about money. Yes. But money is not about money, money is about what you think about money and how you tick.
Think and Grow Rich is a distilled version of the actual monumental work that Napoleon HIll first published known as ”The Law of Success”. The work that Andrew Carnegie gave to Hill to compose and is the result of 25 years of researching the most successful people of the early 20th Century, and these laws hold true today.
”The Law of Success” is a huge book, so Think and Grow Rich is much more concise and to the point, it also reads that way. No fluff in this book at all.
Get it, read it and do it.