The Legacy Begins: Part Two

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To understand these 13 principles, this absolutely incredible philosophy. I think we should go back to where it all started. And as you get involved in this, as you mentally build this image in your mind, you're going to see how all this has fallen in place.

And it's absolutely incredible. The more you think about it. Now, I have been studying this for so long.

It's really a part of my life. But we have to go way back to 1908. Things are pretty primitive then relative to today.

We weren't moving at the speed we're moving at now. Napoleon Hill was a young reporter for a little magazine. And someone, probably the editor, decided they would run a series of articles of interviewing wealthy people.

Hill was fortunate enough to get an interview, a three hour interview with the wealthiest man in the world, Andrew Carnegie. And he went and he sat and he interviewed him. Now, unbeknownst to Napoleon Hill, andrew Carnegie was looking for someone that he could give a big project to.

And he hadn't yet found anyone. At the end of the three hour interview, andrew Carnegie said to Napoleon Hill, napoleon, this interview isn't ending. It's just beginning.

I want you to come home with me. Hill said he was glad he took him home because he didn't have enough money to rent a hotel room. He spent three days with Andrew Carnegie, the wealthiest man in the world.

Now, think of this. Over those three days, Andrew Carnegie shared his philosophy. See, he started out as a poor boy, immigrated from Scotland with his parents.

Just as a boy, they didn't have anything. So he went from nothing to be the wealthiest man in the world. And he shared with Napoleon Hill his whole philosophy.

At the end of the three days, Carnegie decided that, I think this is the man I'm looking for. I guess you could tell by his level of interest in the story, the philosophy of what got him to where he was. There was probably a number of factors came into play.

But Carnegie think, I think he's the guy. And so he asked him a question. Unbeknownst to Napoleon Hill, he only gave him 60 seconds to answer the question.

And at the end of the 60 seconds, he would have to make a decision, a monumentous decision, if you think about it. He looked at him, he had a stopwatch in his hand, under his desk, and he says, napoleon, you've spent three days with me. You know now how I've accomplished what I've accomplished.

He's, I'm going to ask you a question and I just want a yes or no answer. Just a yes or no answer. Napoleon, he said, would you spend or invest the rest of your life in an idea for which you would probably receive no material compensation for at least 20 years? How would you answer that question? I've asked myself on many occasions how I would answer it in 25 seconds.

Napoleon Hill said, yes, he would. He qualified. He passed the SF test, and he had to make a decision.

That was a big decision. You're going to run up against decisions. This is one of the 13 principles.

Napoleon Hill wrote a whole chapter on decision in his book, Think and Grow Rich. And right on the very first page, he points out that all successful people make decisions very fast. They change them very slow if and when they change them at all.

And he pointed out that people that are not successful make decisions very slow and change them fast enough to I guess that's why Andrew Carnegie gave him 60 seconds. If he took longer, he would be disqualified. How do you make decisions now? Carnegie said to Hill, he said, Now, Napoleon, I'm going to introduce you to some of the world's most successful people.

He said, I'm going to give you letters of introduction. You'll receive no subsidy from me. I want you to go out and write the laws of achievement.

He says, the shame that people like myself are going to their grave with all this knowledge locked up in their bones, he said, I want it organized and I want you to organize it. I will give you letters of introduction and then you're on your own. Now, he said, you're going to run into many tough times, Napoleon.

No question about that. So I said, I'm going to give you something that'll help you through those tough times. I want you to write this out.

I want you to write every word. No one's going to underline every word now. He said, this is a message that you're going to give from yourself to yourself, Napoleon.

So it's going to be you talking to you. I want you to write down, Andrew Carnegie, I'm not only going to equal your achievements in life, I'm going to meet you at the Post and pass you at the Grandstand. Well, as the story goes, he threw his pencil on the floor.

He says, now, you know darn well I'm not going to be able to do that. He says, I know you're not Napoleon unless and until you believe it. But I want you to repeat that every morning, and I want you to repeat it every night.

I want you to look in the mirror and I want you to repeat that looking in your eye. Say, Andrew Carnegie, I'm not only going to equal your achievements in life, I'm going to meet you at the Post and I'm going to pass you at the Grandstand. Now, that wasn't an easy thing for Hill to do.

He was living with his brother. He had promised his brother that he was going to pay for him to go through college. Now he was going to have to go home and tell his brother he couldn't do that.

He or the project that he was working on. He was going to take all his time and it was going to take every cent that he could get for himself. Then he was afraid to tell his brother what he was going to do because he thought his brother would think he had lost his mind.

He's going to work on a 20 year project. Nobody's given him any money. Nobody's going to pay him.

The first day he went and he locked himself in the bathroom and he looked in the mirror and he whispered, it Andrew Carnegie. I'm not only going to equal your achievements in life, I'm going to meet you at the post and I'm going to pass you the Grandstand. He said he felt when he was Satan, like he was a darn fool.

He said, this isn't going to happen. But he said, I made a commitment that I would do this, so I better do it. So every morning and every night, he would do this.

Now, he had committed that he would do it for 30 days. Around the middle of the month, he started to think maybe it could happen. By the end of the month, he knew it would happen.

Now, I've done a fair amount of study on this over the last 50 years, and anything I've been able to discover is that Carnegie made somewhere in the vicinity of 50 millionaires. Some people say 20. I've read 23, I've read 50.

Napoleon Hill has made millions of millionaires. So you see, he did equal his achievements. He went past his achievements and he did pass them at the grandstand.

Here's a poi boy, a young boy, a young cub reporter for a magazine. How did he do that? Why did he do that? I think he did it strictly on the belief that Carnegie wasn't going to ask him to do anything that was unjust. But why is it that all successful people make decisions very fast and change them slow? And he found out that was true in his research with all these giants.

Well, do you know, I have never stopped studying it. I probably never will stop studying it. And I'm going to show you something about decision that has the potential to change your life forever.

You see, I wanted to know, why do successful people make decisions when they have absolutely no idea how they're going to make it happen? There's a reason for it now. Many of them are unconscious competence. They don't know why they do that's just the way they do it.

You can become a conscious competent with what I'm going to show you now. Do you see? It all starts with our own thinking. See, vibration is a law of the universe.

Everything vibrates, nothing rests. Look at the walls around you. They're vibrating.

They appear to be still. They're really not still. Look at them through a microscope.

You'll see the energy dancing in front of your eyes? Go take a look at a body in a coffin. Now you'll think, I'm really losing it here, but listen and think. Look at the body through a microscope.

It is not dead. That body's moving. It's moving so fast it appears to be still.

And if it wasn't moving, how would it ever change the dust? Everything moves. We live in an ocean of motion. Make no mistake about it.

Every level of vibration is referred to as a frequency. And a beautiful truth is we think on frequencies. Do you know that every great leader that has ever lived, every one of them, they've been in complete unanimous agreement on one point.

They've disagreed on virtually everything else but this one point. They've been in agreement on that. We become what we think about.

Solomon put it very well. He was a pretty bright guy. He said, as a person, thinketh in their heart.

It's not just the thoughts that are running across the screen of your conscious minds, it's the ones you internalize. We truly do become what we think about. See the thoughts that we're thinking produce the results that we're getting.

Remember I pointed out that we're never satisfied with our results. I don't care how they are. You can be happy with them, you can even celebrate some of them, but you're going to want to do better.

And that is because you're a spiritual being. And spirit's always for expansion and fuller expression. It's never for disintegration and nothing stays where it is.

Nothing. We do live in an ocean of ocean. The dynamic law of life is create or disintegrate.

You are never going to stay where you are following what we're teaching. You're going to create. It's a beautiful part.

So we're looking at our results and we're saying, but this is where I really want to go. And we point to a star that we're shooting at and we make a decision. That's what I'm going to do.

Unfortunately, everybody does that. And 90 some percent say, when this improves, then I'm going to do that. Do you know it'll never happen? It will never happen because you're not on the right frequency.

You see what happens here? Pretty soon the decision fades. And when it fades, so does the goal. The goal disappears.

Somebody said, I thought you were working. Yeah, well, I am. I'm still working at it.

Do you know what the problem is? You're thinking on the wrong frequency. You see, your thought is down here on the frequency that you're living on. But the way to do what you want to do is not on that frequency.

Clearly understand this all science and all theology, the only two sources of reference we have to go to tell us nothing is created or destroyed. The way to do anything is already here. Space travel.

We've always been able to do it. We just weren't aware of how. No, the neat little cell phones we've got that pretty soon will be obsolete.

We've always been able to do that. I remember back when we had the party lines, hardly anybody had a phone then. When they got when they got a party line, everybody's on the line.

We were able to build beautiful little cell phones then. Do you know the cell phone you've got has more power as a computer than the computer that took the first rocket to the moon? It's magnificent when you think of what we're doing. And it's all an awareness.

That's what you're developing. You're developing awareness. See, the awareness to do everything is already here.

But you've got to get on the frequency that it operates on, because everything operates on a frequency. If you phoned your Uncle Harry, you wouldn't expect your mother to answer the phone. Why? Because you dialed Harry's number.

You got on Harry's frequency. That's what the number is. It's a frequency and there's a zillion of them.

We know there's an infinite number of frequencies. Everything you want is already here. What you have to do is attract it.

And you know something? You're going to learn how to do that. You see, what we really have to do, we need to make a paradigm shift. We're programmed to operate the way we're operating.

Why would 97 or 95% of the population keep using a losing formula? They don't know they are. They're giving it everything they've got. We had to shift our thinking.

We got to shift the paradigm. Do you know many of the beliefs and the ideas that are controlling your decision making right now? They were established by some great grandparent who lived in a different time. But all that stuff is passed down in the genes.

It's called genetic conditioning. We got to change that. You see, while you're thinking away down here on this lower frequency, the way to do what you want to do is away up here on a higher frequency.

And what's required is a committed decision. A committed decision is when you do it regardless. And when you make a committed decision, this is what I'm going to do.

You flip your brain onto that higher frequency and the way is shown. Now we're going to talk about your 6th sense, your intuitive mind, because that's how it comes to you. You're tapping into universal intelligence.

That's what all highly successful people do. Whether they know they're doing it or not is irrelevant. But that's what they're doing.

That's what you're going to learn how to do. See, the only criteria you have to have when you set a goal is, do you want it? Do you want it? Doesn't matter how you're going to do it. It doesn't matter where the money's coming from.

I once heard a cute story where the Maharashi, when he was taking transcendental meditation or decided he was going to take it to the world, one of his closest associates said, Where's the money going to come from? He said, Wherever it is right now, I always thought it was such a beautiful answer. Because the truth, everything you need, everything you want is already here. Nothing is created or destroyed.

I didn't dream this up. It's the way it is. All science, all theology tell us that the way to get the moon was already here, always here.

When President John Kennedy asked Dr. Werner von Braun, who's considered the father of space travel, what it would take to build a rocket that would carry a man to the moon and bring him back safely to Earth, von Braun answered him in five words the will to do it. The will to do it.

Will is a mental faculty that gives us the ability to concentrate. You got to concentrate on what you want. That's all you can concentrate on.

And that will keep you on the frequency that you have to be on to attract everything that you need to get there. This is so important. You see, I believe decision where it all starts.

It's where it all started for Napoleon Hill. It all started when Carnegie asked him, are you prepared to dedicate the rest of your life to an idea for which you'll probably receive no material compensation for at least 20 years? How would you answer that? You see, he didn't know how to do that. He didn't even believe he could.

Do you know what I found? When you set a goal, you don't have to believe it. If you keep repeating it, you'll come to believe it. If you tell yourself a lie often enough, you'll believe it.

Way back, 1900, William James from Harvard, he said, believe, and your belief will create the fact. So true. So true and so misunderstood.

So what do you want? Compare your dream to Napoleon Hill's idea. Just compare it for a moment. Your idea is probably small by comparison, but if you don't know how to do it, if you don't know where the money's coming from, if you don't know where the help is going to come from, you'll probably seem large.

When I took my pen and I sat down and I wrote, I would build a company that operated all over the world. I had no idea how I was going to do it. I certainly didn't have the finances to it.

I didn't have the help. I didn't even have an assistant. I was just me in my den, writing on a pad.

Do you know something? Today I own a company along with Sandy Gallagher, who is my business partner, and we operate all over the world. These aren't accidents. I'm just an ordinary guy that's doing what the public would consider something extraordinary.

But it's not extraordinary to me, and it's not going to be to you when you start to understand these principles and incorporate them into your life. I once read where it said, no amount of reading or memorizing is going to make you successful. It's the understanding and application of why something happens.

You're going to study this? I study it every day. Every day for at least an hour. Sometimes more, but at least an hour.

It's a habit. Habit something you do unconsciously. You don't even spend any time thinking about it, you just do it.

You get dressed by habit. You shower, comb, wash your hair. Habit.

You know, good habits automatically transform our life. The one thing you need if you want to move higher is a greater awareness. People are not earning 100,000 a year because they want to earn 100,000 a year.

They're earning 100,000 a year because they're not aware of how to earn 100,000 a month. People aren't alone and lonely because they enjoy being alone and lonely. They're alone and lonely because they're not aware of how to build meaningful relationships.

People don't struggle all of their commercial career because they enjoy struggling. They're struggling because they're not aware of how to knock those blocks down that are all inside. It's never outside.

It's never another person. It's never a condition or a circumstance. It's always lack of awareness.

This is such beautiful information. I've been living with it for a long time. I don't even know how you'd live without it.

In fact, I don't think you can. You merely exist. And unfortunately, that's the way most people go through life.

You see, our educational institutions is not giving us the same kind of information. They really don't. They really believe.

The secret is read the book, remember what's in the book and be able to repeat it. Answer the questions more right than wrong. You'll pass, you get the degree.

Well, we've got people graduating from some of the most prestigious universities in the world every year with multiple degrees that are having difficulty finding work, that are broke. How does that happen? And yet you'll find other people who are functionally illiterate, they can either read nor write, that are earning millions. How do we account for this? You're going to find that out as you study this.

It's got nothing to do with anything outside of ourself. Education isn't answering what's in the book. Education comes from the Latin JUCO, meaning to reduce to developer, to drove from within.

Remember I said everything's already here. Omnipresent that's within us. Madam Montessori was right.

Napoleon Hill was right. Carnegie knew the right question. Hill knew how to answer it.

What are you going to do with the rest of your life? That's your question. You got to make a decision. You follow this, you can do whatever you want.

Whatever you want. I mentioned we want to build schools in Africa for kids that have never seen a school. And so we're building them.

There's many things we want to do. We do them all. I never wonder if I can do something.

I just ask myself, do I want to? That's why I think God meant us to live. I believe we're doing God's work. Somebody say what's god's word god.

Well, if God's a creator, then God's work would be creation. We've been given the mental faculties to create. We've been created in God's image.

Somewhere along the line, way back when somebody got that mixed up, they thought when they said, you're creating God's image, that God was created in their image that are looking for a man on a cloud. There is no man on a cloud. But I'm going to tell you something.

You got some phenomenal stuff locked up inside of you. You bring it to the surface, you can have anything you want. It's a great way to live.

Study this every day. It will pay astronomical dividends. And you want to know something else? You're going to find people that laugh at you at first will start following you.

They'll start to want to know, what are you doing? I know because they laughed at me. But then they started to follow me. And then they started to thank me.

I am so grateful to the great work that Napoleon Hill dedicated his entire lifetime to. And you know, when you finish this, you will be, too, because your world is going to change like night and day. My hope for you is that you get as much out of this, or even 10% out of this as I've got it over my lifetime.

And if you do, you're going to have an absolutely brilliant future. I love my life. Every morning I wake up, I've got a beautiful day in front of me because I'm doing what I absolutely love to do.

And you know the beautiful part I'm doing with people that are just like myself? They're into bigger ideas. They're into learning. They want to know.

And they know. They don't know at all. But we can keep growing.

That spark of perfection within you is jabbing. You tell you want this, want this. Write it down.

Make up your mind you're going to do it. And remember, you don't have to know how. You only have to know you will.