Everything exists on the internet for anyone to become wildly successful.
If this is true, why is only 1% of the population truly living the life of their dreams?
Napoleon Hill’s Overlooked Answer.
Napoleon Hill (the author of “Think and Grow Rich”) gave the answer in an interview.
Hill had been charged by Andrew Carnegie with figuring out the formula for success.
He interviewed hundreds of wildly successful people and inept failures in an attempt to find commonalities.
Hill discussed his findings in interviews and wrote them down in his success books.
What is often missed is an interview he had where a reporter asked what may be the most important question of his career.
The reporter asked Napoleon, if you have given all the points and principles of success, how come more people aren’t successful?
His answer was that most people aren’t successful because they carry guilt, shame, and regret.
This is a massive revelation and very few understand how important it is.
Subconscious Beliefs Run Your Life
I’m not going into the mystical or ephemeral here.
This is all science-based psychology and is the hidden key to growing into everything you want for yourself.
Years ago, I started looking at ways to make more money and try to free up more of my time.
I was working 60-70 hours per week and wasn’t making enough money to really get anywhere.
What I quickly found was that everything I tried was hard.
I would find myself holding back because of fear or sometimes what seemed like an unknown force.
I felt like I just didn’t have what it took to be successful.
It was as if God was picking and deciding winners and losers.
After spending some time working hard and not really seeing results, I found a mentor that talked endlessly about mindset.
I decided, finally, to start listening.
The Moment That Changed Everything
What I came to realize was that I had experienced things as a child that were traumatic for me.
At that young age, I didn’t have the tools to deal with them properly.
Because of that, I formed beliefs about myself in order to get through it.
Those beliefs became ingrained and entrenched due to the traumatic event and stayed.
This all happened subconsciously.
I can see why those events don’t actually mean what I took them to mean, but the beliefs stayed regardless.
What I decided to believe about myself in those moments were things like,
“If I do something wrong, I’m a failure.”
“What I think doesn’t matter.”
“I cannot trust anyone.”
“Nobody is listening to me.”
There were many others.
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
These beliefs will play out in your life despite your best efforts to work toward what you want.
You will attract to yourself the people and circumstances to make those beliefs true.
The subconscious refuses to be wrong and will stack evidence to prove those beliefs correct.
That’s why even if you have all the information to have everything you want, you don’t truly go after it.
Or you just can’t seem to get there even after working hard.
Perhaps you self-sabotage.
It’s because of these beliefs.
You will literally work against yourself to prove your beliefs correct.
This is working in every component of your life.
The Big Event
Most likely, there was a big event from your childhood, that caused some or all of those beliefs to take root.
These events typically happen between ages 3-10.
Think through when something like that might have happened for you.
The event itself might not even be considered “negative”.
However, it still impacted you in a way that caused you to attach meaning and form beliefs about yourself and the world.
What were the beliefs you formed about yourself in that moment?
More importantly, how are those beliefs running your life today?
So, now what?
If you are still here and wonder what’s the point, then here it is.
It’s not to make you upset at your parents, past, or anything else.
Being aware of what’s going on in your mind is valuable, because that’s the only way you can change it.
I’m not a psychologist.
I have learned all this from people who have extensive training in these principles.
My only attempt here is to help you understand why you aren’t getting the results you want.
I want you to have the true answer and to give you hope.
The reason you don’t have what you want is not because you are lazy, stupid or not good enough.
Quite the contrary, you have worked very hard to prove those beliefs to yourself and your brain truly understood how to help you survive.
The next steps…
If you can see the truth, you are now wondering what to do about it.
You need to adopt a new belief.
The easiest and fastest way of doing this is providing overwhelming evidence to your subconscious that a new belief is true.
This part is going to sound like work.
It is work, but it is truly effective and absolutely LIFE CHANGING.
If you carry a belief, that you are not smart enough, for example.
Write down 100 examples from your life that prove that you are very intelligent.
You should really try to get to 500 or more.
However, 100 will start to cause a shift in your subsconscious thinking.
This can be done for any belief, but start with the one you feel is the big one.
Most people will not do this, because it seems so simple.
Trust me that it works.
It has worked for me and I have seen it work for hundreds of people.
Just try it.
100 examples should only take an hour or 2.
Start today and watch how your life begins to change.
Let me know how it goes.
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