THE 17 PRINCIPLES OF PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT
(from Napoleon Hill's Keys to Success)
PMA - Positive Mental Attitude
1. Develop DEFINITENESS OF PURPOSE—with PMA You should have
one high, desirable, outstanding goal, and keep it ever before you.
(Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve—when you have
PMA and apply it)
2. Establish a MASTERMIND ALLIANCE—with PMA A mastermind
alliance is two or more minds working together in the spirit of perfect
harmony toward the attainment of a specific objective.
3. Assemble an ATTRACTIVE PERSONALITY—with PMA Your
personality is your greatest asset or greatest liability, for it embraces
everything that you control: mind, body, and soul. (Do unto others as you
would have others do unto you)
4. Use APPLIED FAITH—with PMA Faith is a state of mind through
which your aims, desires, plans, and purposes may be translated into their
physical or financial equivalent. (Prayer is your greatest power!)
5. Go the EXTRA MILE—with PMA Render more and better service
for which you are paid, and do it with a positive mental attitude. (Make
going the extra mile with PMA a habit!)
6. Create PERSONAL INITIATIVE—with PMA Personal initiative it
the inner power that starts all action. It is the power that inspires the
completion of that which one begins. (Use and develop the self-starter—DO IT
NOW!)
7. Build a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE A positive mental attitude
is the right, honest, constructive thought, action, or reaction to any
person, situation, or set of circumstance that does not violate the laws of
God or the right of one’s fellowman. (Maintain the right attitude—a positive
mental attitude)
8. Control Your ENTHUSIASM—with PMA A person without
enthusiasm is like a watch without a mainspring… To become enthusiastic
about achieving a desirable goal, keep you mind on that goal day after day.
(To be enthusiastic…act enthusiastically!)
9. Enforce SELF-DISCIPLINE—with PMA Self-discipline enables
you to develop control over yourself … [and] begins with mastery of your
thoughts, what you really are, what you really do. (Direct your thoughts,
control your emotions, ordain your destiny with PMA)
10. THINK ACCURATELY—with PMA Separate facts form fiction or
hearsay evidence. Separate facts into classes: important and unimportant.
(Truth will be truth regardless of a closed mind, ignorance, or refusal to
believe)
11. Control YOUR ATTENTION—with PMA Controlled attention is
the act of coordinating all the faculties of the mind and directing their
combined power to a given end or definite objective. (Keep your mind on the
things you want and off the things you don’t want)
12. Inspire TEAMWORK—with PMA Teamwork is the willing
cooperation and the coordination of effort to achieve a specific objective.
(That which you share will multiply; that which you withhold will diminish)
13. Learn from ADVERSITY AND DEFEAT—with PMA Every adversity
carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who
have PMA and apply it. (The worst thing that happens to you may be the best
thing that can happen to you if you don’t let it get the best of you)
14. Cultivate CREATIVE VISION—with PMA Man’s greatest gift is
his thinking mind. It analyzes, compares, chooses. It creates, visualizes,
foresees, and generates ideas. (What can be conceived can be created—with
PMA)
15. Maintain SOUND HEALTH—with PMA You are a mind with a body.
To maintain a health consciousness, think in terms of good physical health,
not in terms of illness or disease… what your mind focuses upon your mind
brings into existence, whether it is financial success or physical health.
(I feel healthy! I feel happy! I feel terrific!)
16. Budget your TIME AND MONEY—with PMA Inventory yourself and
your activities. Intelligently balance your use of time and resources, both
business and personal. (You don’t always get what you expect unless you
inspect—with PMA)
17. Use COSMIC HABITFORCE—with PMA All of us are ruled by
habits. These are fastened upon us by repeated thoughts and experiences … We
create patterns of thought by repeating certain ideas or behavior until the
Law of Cosmic Habitforce takes over those patterns and makes them more or
less permanent unless or until you consciously rearrange them. (Sow an act,
reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a
destiny)
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