Napoleon Hill
Sometimes you will feel
the effects of this voice from within the first time you read your
definite chief aim; while at other times, you may have to read it a
dozen or fifty times before the assurance comes, but do not stop until
you feel it.
If you prefer to do so you may read your definite chief aim as a
prayer.
The remainder of this lesson is for the person who has not yet
learned the power of faith and who knows little or nothing of the
principle of Auto-suggestion.
To all who are in this class, I would recommend the reading of the seventh and eighth verses of the seventh chapter, and the twentieth verse of the seventeenth chapter of St. Matthew. One of the greatest powers for good, upon the face of this earth, is faith.
To this marvellous power may be traced miracles of the most astounding nature. It offers peace on earth to all who embrace it. Faith involves a principle that is so far-reaching in its effect that no man can say what are its limitations, or if it has limitations.
Write into the description of your definite chief aim a statement o f the qualities that you intend to develop in yourself, and the station in life that you intend to attain, and have faith, as you read this description each night, that you can transform this purpose into reality.
Surely, you cannot miss the suggestion contained in this lesson. To become successful you must be a person of action. Merely to "know" is not sufficient. It is necessary both to know and do. Enthusiasm is the mainspring of the mind, which urges one to put knowledge into action.
Billy Sunday is the most successful evangelist this country has ever known. For the purpose of studying his technique and checking up on his psychological methods the author of this course went through three campaigns with Reverend Sunday. IF you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
His success is based very largely upon one word - ENTHUSIASM!
By making effective use of the law of suggestion Billy
Sunday conveys his own spirit of enthusiasm to the minds of his followers
and they become influenced by it. He sells his sermons by the use of exactly
the same sort of strategy employed by many Master Salesmen.