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We thank everyone in our Mastermind Group
who shared their thoughts below on Napoleon
Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich - Chapter 4.

Namaste!
Rob & Rayvin Nyte
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I think Chapter 4 is the most important Chapter in
Think and Grow Rich without belief there is no way
forward.

The challenge is to reach the subconscious mind
by thoughts or spoken words which are repeated
with emotion and belief…..The price that must be
paid is the need for persistence and the ability to
concentrate and hold those thoughts and see and
feel what you want to have and keep repeating this
until it becomes second nature. I control what I put
into my subconscious mind - the answer lies with
me.
 
Napoleon Hill writes”Man may become the master
of himself, and of his environment,,,,, because he
has the POWER TO INFLUENCE HIS OWN SUB
CONSCIOUS MIND, and through it,,,,,,,, gain the
cooperation of Infinite Intelligence.” He goes onto
say that this chapter is the keystone to the arch of
this philosophy. I have read this chapter a number
of times - I think however this is the first time I
have actually understood it.
 
Regards
Kathy Colgan
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We all suggest things to ourselves as a child we
suggest we are a great president or astronaut.

As teenagers we suggest we are invisible and
nothing or anyone can hurt us. But today I also
see teens wearing shirts saying born to loose.

What kind of suggestion is that I wonder?

As adults we are programmed to suggest This
job will be ok.  Why do we do this? 

If our subconscious mind will do what ever we
suggest why do we suggest mediocrity. I have
read by the age of 16 we have been told that we
cant do something over 200,000 times. 

That’s a lot of suggestion!  The conscious mind
will reject some thoughts so they never reach
the subconscious.  For us to have are dreams
we must desire them. 

Not only desire it but see and “feel” it as if we
are already there..  We must mix our thoughts
we desire with emotion and feeling, this is why
most people fail. 

We must be persistent to succeed…..Why do
children reach goals, because they do not no
the meaning of failure.  THEY PERSIST>

I wonder if this is what Jesus meant when he
said be like the little children?……  We must
concentrate and persist.  When a child wants
something they will derive you crazy about it
because they are obsessed with it. 

Does a child have a definite plan to reach their
goal?  NO, but they press on toward it every
hour and day until it is achieved or they have
a new obsession. 

WOW! I must be more like a child because
they not only believe they will have it, They
have complete faith it will be theirs…
Thank You Michael & Linda
Your Friend
Tony Casteel
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Auto Suggestion:
 
Since I have not been doing my lesson plans
or being on many calls I have found that my
old thoughts are back again.

I am not programing my subconscious mind
with my burning desires, not doing my self
talk, negativity is creaping back in…. I have
been trying to please everyone else in my
life so I don’t rock the boat. As you know I
have lots of things happen in the past and I
need to keep it under control.
 
So I am committing again to doing my lesson
plans, my self-talk, getting e-book downloads
and helping other leaders who want to learn
and be successful.
 
I am the one in control of what I think, what
I want , what I desire, what my success will
be and who I work with….. Autosuggestion
means I am in control of what I am putting
into my subconscious mind, I am the only
one who knows what I truly desire and want.

No one can stop me from having my desires
or stop me from my self-talk.
 
Speaking of self talk, it is just not the words
I say, but how I say them and also my emotion
I have when I am saying myself talk. It is truly
amazing when you can actually get your heart
racing, or close my eyes and picture myself
and my team at the success level we all want.

One other think I also do to help with auto-
suggestion is have photos of my team members,
and for people I am  speaking with I will put
their names up so I can see them every single
day and focus on them.
 
Short but I have started on my journey once again.
 
Thanks to both of you, for the belief, the friend
ship and the love you both give me.
 
Your friend for life
 
Penny
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As I completed reading chapter 4 on auto-
suggestion, it accrue to me that all these
years I really thought that I had a positive
attitude, I now know what I had was only half
attitude and the rest was wishful thinking.

And you know what Michael after I have started
reading my affirmation over and over I lost count
how many times I have said my affirmation and
it finally clicked.

I don’t care what people think about me it is none
of their business in the kind of business I am in, 
because this is my life and I do deserve living
welland I do have abundance in my life, I have God
and good people that care and want the best for me,
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You so much,
May God Bless You and Your Family.
 
To Your Success,
Secundino Alameda III
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Chapter 4

AUTOSUGGESTION

THE MEDIUM FOR INFLUENCING THE SUBCONSCIOUS
MIND..The Third Step toward Riches

Oh my gosh, I can’t believe it I actually won the
cruise to Bermuda. I remember the day I went to the Philadelphia Flower Show. .I am always one of those
people who fills out the entry blank to win this or
that. 

I looked at the picture of the Bermuda Cruise and
all of the wonderful memories of Tom,,,,,,my scuba
dive instructor husband came flooding back. 

How I would love to go on that cruise.I could see the
water and the cabin and the wonderful silence of the
underwater world. The beautiful lumineus of the squid
and the colors of the fish. My mind was so focused I
didn’t hear my friend Carol call me to go into the show.

Well, what do you know, a woman from the Travel Agency
giving away 25 cruises called me, her name is Darlene
and she was more excited than I was.If you can imagine
that.

Well I did and now I have the cruise. 

So here goes.  Oh my gosh, I just looked out my front
window to the driveway and there it sits..  Yup it is
the Candy Apple Red Mustang that I just won at
convention.

I loved walking over and having Michael hand me the
keys.  I got right in the car.  Wow, it was so cozy. 
I of course had to drive it around the block. 

Judi Sheehan jumped into the passenger side and we
drove around the block. Oh my gosh, what a time I
had driving it back to New Jersey….  I must have
stopped at every rest area just to admire it. 

It drives so smooth, except when I miss the clutch
just a little, been so long since I had my 280 ZX. 

What pick-up, oh, oh, highway patrol, whew he had
his red light on and whipped right past me.  What
fun, I could drive this forever, but here we are home
and I am looking out into my driveway.  Yup, there it
is my New Candy Apple Red Mustang.

Anyone want a ride.

Your grateful friend, and by the way Thanks for the
2008 Candy Apple Red Mustang.

Kaye Stephens
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Auto-suggestion is self-suggestion. 

It is by this principle that thoughts reaching the
conscious mind can then reach our subconscious
mind.

This is a choice.  We have the absolute control in
regards to the thoughts we want to send to our sub
conscious mind by first holding those thoughts in
our conscious mind.

Although we possess this absolute control, it is
obviously not easy to use all the time.

They key is to use the principle of auto-suggestion
mixed with feelings or emotions.This is the hard part.

Reading the statement of our desires is not hard but
seeing ourselves already in possession of our desires
with emotion is the key and can only be achieved with
practice and persistence.

There is no such thing as something for nothing and
we must pay the price to achieve our desires. 

Practice and persistence.

Auto-suggestion can work for anybody.  When failure
is experienced it is the individual that fails NOT the
method.

Try, try, try, until you succeed.

Success in using auto-suggestion depends on our ability
to concentrate on our desires until they become a burning
obsession.

We are masters of our own destiny because we have the
power to influence our subconscious mind.

Regards,
Michel Laliberte
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Hello Michael,

I have absolute control over the material, thoughts,
ideas, beliefs, that reach my subconscious mind. So
says Hill. So it must be as far as I’m concerned.

The fact that I have absolute control over mt thoughts
reaching my subconscious mind,,,, does not mean that I
have exercised that control. Any control. So says Hill.

Don’t I know it.

Here lies the recurring frustrations of my life, along
with all the voices of my ghosts, and any power they may
have been allowed to exercise. Allowed by me.

The preceding chapters have been a building of my self
talk, auto suggestion. Identifying my desire(s), naming
them, seeing them, untiI can feel them.

Desires I would not have previously dared to reach for.

Reaching for them by building Belief, and Faith, through
my own self talk. Self talking my way through this, into
it, becoming it, is such a foreign concept to my mind,
alien, but it feels so essential. So different from what
I have believed.

I don’t know how to explain a craving for something I
have never tasted. But that’s what I have. It’s funny
how it works. At first it was just words, but I found
myself altering them, to something I liked better,
something that seemed to ring a bell.

Even if my self talk was not that passionate at first,
passion for what I am saying is building, as I edit
and rewrite, and get specific. The bell rings louder.

A war wages in me. A battle between the me I feel
that I want to be, and the me I drift back to, if
I allow my mind to drift.

I can’t lose this war. I’ve been conceding ground my
whole life, without realizing it…. If I lost this
growing faith in myself, belief in myself, and daring
to reach for what I desire, then I could lose my
growing faith and belief in that universe, higher
power, the ether.

What a shame that would be….. If I can’t be who I
dream of being, what is my purpose here?

Hill asks us; What price is too large to pay to gain
this? Talking to myself seems like a ridiculously
cheap price to pay. Self talk is free. All I have to
do is stick with it and re-program myself.

I have a long way to go to master this, and really
get from it, all I truly want….I can tell, because,
when I read this out loud to myself, part of me still
cringes at thinking it, writing it down, and then….

God Forbid, speaking it.

This is my old programming trying to kick in, telling
me to get real, this sounds nuts. That programming
has kept me running into the same brick wall, over
and over again, my whole life. How sane is that?

At these moments, I have to meet my past programming
with my self talk. But I know that with each expression
of my self talk, I’m replacing the old programming with
my new programming a little more each time I say it.

I think other people can hear it? Old programming
says things like “What do you mean you get your
plans from the ether?”

It’s a scrap. A real battle in here. I knock that
voice down with my self talk. I’ll win this scrap.
With each head on, I am gaining back ground I
previously surrendered.

Left to outside programming, others programming,
my mind is wide open to every influence, except
mine, and not working toward my desires.

Hill says, if your not so good at self talk, just
because you’re a beginner, just keep practicing.
That’s what Michael says. That’s what Patti says.

I wonder how many people I couldn’t hear say that
to me, until I hit that familiar wall again?

Like a drunk stumbling past the building where ‘
the AA meeting is, and never noticing it. Like not
noticing the step by step how to instructions with
each chapter in this book, the other times I passed
by.

ORDERS, given to my mind, by me, in the SPIRIT
of Faith, my faith, in me, and in the universe,
in Hill,in Michael, ORDERS based in my BELIEF
that this works, is all underpinned by my self
talk.

Without it, I’ll build another house of cards,
and it will come down on me again.

I cannot trust to reason. Reason thinks I’m nuts
and keeps running me into the same brick wall.
At this wall, faith, belief, and desire fade away.

I should not wonder how I missed this chapter
before. Understanding it, and using it, was not
serving my old programming.

Carry out these instructions as though you
were a small child - Hill

Hugh Erving