15 Laws of Lasting Success

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So here are 15 laws of success from the old classic by Napolean Hill, an author that kids my generation grew up reading – “The Law of Success”. Worth taking note of each and every law. You might just print this thing out!

Have a Definite Chief Aim: Do away with aimlessness and choose – fix your heart on – upon a definite, clear goal in life.
Self Confidence: Learn to fight your fears (poverty, Ill Health, Old age, Criticism, Loss of love of Someone, Death) and stay away from egotism.
Habit of Saving: Distribute your income systematically so that a definite portion of it can gradually accumulate and multiply – and result in source of personal power.
Initiative and Leadership: Become a leader and not a follower in your chosen field of endeavor.. This will develop an instinct of leadership such that you may be #1 in all your undertakings.
Imagination: Stimulate your mind to think out of the box and come up with new ideas and develop new ways to attain your Definite Chief Aim.
Enthusiasm: It is the base of a pleasing personality and it will help others come on board with you as well.
Self Control: Balance your enthusiasm and direct it to take you in the right direction with self confidence and not egotism.
Give more than you Get: Always do more than you are paid for. It will result in increasing returns. You cannot become a leader unless you practice this basic law.
Pleasing Personality: the fulcrum on which the crow-bar of your efforts are placed, such that intelligence can take you to remove obstacles
Accurate Thought: Learn to separate FACTS from mere INFORMATION. Also organize FACTS into two classes: Important and Unimportant.
Concentration: Focus on one subject at a time until you have mastered that subject.
Co-operation: Never underestimate the value of team work. Coordinate your efforts with others’ in such a manner that friction, jealousy, strife, envy and cupidity are eliminated.
Profit from Failure: Make your past mistakes and failures into stepping stones. Learn to differentiate between “temporary defeat” and failure.
Tolerance: Avoid disastrous effects of prejudices – racial, religious, ethnic etc.
Prayer: You cannot attain success in its highest form without the aid of earnest prayer.