Hard Work = Success?

What do you think? Does hard work equal success?

Shortly after I began to read Napoleon Hill's book, "Think and Grow Rich" I took a good look at my beliefs about money and my own success. What I found was not what I wanted.

Do your remember the children story, The Ant & The Grasshopper By: Gene Kwiecinski? The moral of the story went something like this, if you don't work hard you won't survive the winters and act out as the grasshopper did by playing your fiddle all day long, that was foolish and wasteful.

I was taught that if you worked hard, paid your bills, paid your taxes, and raised a family then you should be content knowing you were successful. To do more than that and to accumulate wealth that would be an unhealthy sign of greed.

How was I to get past this way of thinking? Napoleon Hill's book has convinced me there was more.

The secret was a burning desire charge with emotions.

Once you clarify exactly what you want your desires will give you a definiteness of purpose.
It is your definiteness of purpose that will inspire you to success.

Sure you have to act upon your desires, spend time and energy to create what you want but it is your thoughts that create the magnetic force which attracts your success.

It is the way you think, that determines your success. It is not your hard work.


Steve Hart