YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT

Do you know the difference between a wish, a hope and a desire? Wishing and hoping are vague. Websters defines a wish as having a feeling of unfulfilled satisfaction with respect to something or someone. He defines hope as a confident expectation that a desire will be fulfilled and desire as a yearning. So which do you have – hopes, wishes or desires? Napoleon Hill, in his book, Think and Grow Rich, says having a definite desire is what gave Edwin C. Barnes the opportunity to go into business with Thomas Edison. It wasn’t his looks, education, luck, “breaks” or any of those things we usually attribute to people who seem to us to have “the life”.

So what do you really desire? Is it money, fame, friends, more time, what? If you don’t know you likely won’t get it. Barnes had a definite goal, placed all his energy, and everything he had behind that goal. Even though five years past with no evidence he would ever get what he wanted, he did not give up. He “burned his bridges” so he had no choice but to continue to strive toward being in business with Edison.

Hill says the method by which desire for riches can be transmuted into its physical equivalent is this: Fix in your mind exactly what you want. Determine exactly what you will give in return. Nothing is free. Establish a definite plan for obtaining what you want and begin at once to put the plan into action, whether or not you feel you are ready. Write out your plan with all the details. Read your plan aloud twice daily – morning and night. As you read, see and feel yourself already in possession of your desire.

Time and again, through-out history, people have been told they could not do something. Those people who did not believe the “scoffers” realized their dreams. Do not listen to anyone who tells you you cannot have it. All achievement begins with a burning desire.

Next – Faith – the second steps toward your desire