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“Failure is a state of mind; therefore, it is something an individual can control until he neglects to exercise this privilege”

Ouch! If I look closely at my life – my own “failures” and mistakes – upon close examination there is just one person responsible and response-able.

How about you?

“Failure brings a climax in which one has the privilege of clearing his mind of fear and making a new start in another direction.”

Hmmmm. Seems like another version of “It’s never what happens to you, it’s always what you DO about it that matters”

OutWitting the Devil – The Secret to Freedom an Success by Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill wrote this one year after he wrote “Think and Grow Rich” because he had learned just as much from the 25,000 failures he had interviewed over the years and he felt that people should be made aware of the things that would trip them up on the way to their goals. He had noted that failures never give seminars, only criticism, skepticism and sarcasm.

Whether you believe the “Devil” is real or a metaphor is irrelevant. You’ll very likely meet your “devils” as you read the book.

Live With Intention,
Dr bill

A little something from;

OutWitting the Devil – The Secret to Freedom an Success by Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill wrote this one year after he wrote “Think and Grow Rich” because he had learned just as much from the 25,000 failures he had interviewed over the years and he felt that people should be made aware of the things that would trip them up on the way to their goals. He had noted that failures never give seminars, only criticism, skepticism and sarcasm.

Hill quotes one of my favorite authors, Ralph Waldo Emerson from his famous “Law of Compensation” essay. A MUST read for all who serve others.

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

And from Emerson’s personal journal;

“The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Every defeat in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.”

And from the fundamental laws of physics; Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

And from nature; we only know hot because we know cold, dark with light, up and down, poverty and prosperity, abundance and scarcity, sickness and health.

Live With Intention,
Dr Bill