Vanilla, Chocolate...and Strawberry. Cold, creamy...delicious!
"Momma, can I have some more Napoleon?"
"Yes, baby...here you go."
My mother was wonderful...she scooped it out from that gallon tube on the 4th of July not thinking to correct me...or maybe she hadn't read the carton either. A few years later, I was in 5th grade and we were discussing Napoleon Bonaparte and I said "I love the ice cream named after him".
Thankfully, only the teacher knew to laugh! She pulled me aside after class and told me the ice cream was called Neapolitan.
Flash forward a decade, I was 17 years old when I was first introduced to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill and inwardly laughed about my faux paus years earlier (yes, that is French in honor of the other Napoleon...Bonaparte for the non-historians!)
Sales people love reading success material (right?) and his classic is one I recommend if you have never read it. In the 2nd chapter he outlines the "Six Definite Practical Steps" for turning Desire into its financial equivalent...
An important thing for anyone, but particularly sales people! The book is in the public domain so I reprint it here just as Mr. Hill wrote it;
1 .Fix in your mind the exact amount of money you desire. It is not sufficient merely to say "I want plenty of money." Be definite as to the amount. (There is a psychological reason for definiteness which will be described in a subsequent chapter).
2. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire. There is no such reality as "something for nothing.
3. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire."
4. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.
5. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.
6. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and once after arising in the morning.
AS YOU READ-SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.
I believe this process is powerful for couple of key reasons - It combines the first three steps in our Evolution to Completion -
Thoughts - Words - Actions
And it keeps your mind on your money and your money on your mind.
The strategies and tactics you need will be "born" out of your focus through daily written/spoken review of your objectives and the service you are going to render to receive it.
Take the wise counsel of someone who got to witness more than 500 of the most successful people in the early 20th century and sit down today and write out your statement of the world you are going to conquer...no not that Napoleon...
The Other Napoleon!
Until tomorrow, I wish you Money, Power, Success!
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