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Part 4A: May Day- The Wisdom of Andrew Carnegie

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No One Achieves Success Alone

Now with respect to support, we need to find people on our own wave length, with similar energy, faith, and goals.  Unfortunately, it may not be our spouses, parents, best friends, children, pastors, or teachers that support our most cherished goals.  We must first believe that support is out there and then put out the right energy so that we can attract the right person, book, idea, or resource to us.

Andrew Carnegie Mentored Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill found such support in the billionaire steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.  Hill too had his own fears and doubts. He shared them with Mr. Carnegie that he didn’t have the education, wealth, or maturity to take on such a monumental mission that his mentor and coach was encouraging him to undertake. Napoleon Hill recounts that he was forever changed after hearing Mr. Carnegie share an analogy of life in a story about two sealed envelopes that each person receives at birth.  One was labeled Riches You May Enjoy, the other, Penalties You Must Pay.

We Each Possess A Power Greater Than Poverty, Education, and Fear

Mr. Carnegie taught that we each have under our control a power greater than poverty, greater than lack of education, and greater than all our fears and superstitions combined.  And, that power is our mind.  He said that “if we take possession of our minds and direct them towards goals of our choosing,”  that we would receive the contents of the Rewards envelope and we will be rewarded with wealth, health, peace of mind, labors of our love, freedom from fear and worry, etc.

If We Neglect to Use Our Minds Correctly We Must Pay the Penalty

If we neglect to take possession of our minds and direct them towards goals of our choosing, we must pay the penalties outlined in the Penalties envelope, which are ill health, fear and worry, indecision and doubt, frustration, poverty, want, and a host of evils including hatred, greed, superstition, etc.

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Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.

Part 4B: May Day- More Wisdom from Dale Carnegie

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Carnegie Did Not Let Lack of Wealth or Education Hold Him Back

Andrew Carnegie was not born a rich man and had to overcome obstacles himself.  He started out with neither education nor wealth.  He’d come to America at age 13 with his family and went to work in a factory in Pennsylvania earning only $1.20 a week, but his love of books and learning and positive mental attitude catapulted him to success.  He did not let the lack of formal education or wealth prevent him from realizing his dreams.

Within a decade, he was  financially secure and over the ensuing three decades became the wealthiest man in America. When he was thirty-three, he wrote a note to himself to retire when he was 35, for fear “To continue much longer overwhelmed by business cares … must degrade me beyond hope of permanent recovery.”

“He Who Dies Rich, Dies in Disgrace”

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He didn’t retire for another 30 years.  Mr. Carnegie had his detractors too, due to his fight against unions, refusal to offer decent pay for his workers in the steel mills, and his allowing unfair working conditions and hours.  Many were forced to work seven days a week for 12 hours a day with no retirement.

At the age 65 he sold his company to JP Morgan. He then devoted the rest of his life to creating avenues for education, peace, and helping others. He did not believe in leaving wealth to heirs. He felt that they should be provided for but that leaving them a fortune would do more harm than good.  For the next 18 years, until he died in 1919, Carnegie proceeded to give away $350 million. By the time of his death, he had created 22 different trusts all united for the purpose of benefiting humankind. It is reported that his wealth is responsible for opening over 2800 libraries.  In his own words, “He who dies rich, dies in disgrace.”

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Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.  (c) 2010, All Rights Reserved

Part 6: May Day- Napoleon Hill’s 17 Success Principles

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What Do You Want from the Universe?

Napoleon Hill became so inspired by Andrew Carnegie that it changed his whole outlook on life and he then dedicated the next 20 years to studying and writing about how to become extraordinarily successful. So what did he find out?  He summed it up in his 17 success principles.  The first of his principles was ‘definiteness of purpose.”

Mr. Hill directs his readers to answer two questions.  The first, “What do you want from the universe?” He says to write it down and recite our desire a dozen or more times each day.  And, the second question, “What are you willing to do or give for it?”

Carnegie had taught him that, “It is the mind that makes the body rich,” and that, “No man can become rich without enriching others.”

I call this ‘definiteness of purpose,” certitude.  Certitude for me is, knowing for sure why I am here on the planet and understanding the wisdom of using my talents and gifts to serve humanity and not only myself.  Are you clear on your goals?  Have you decided and chosen what you want from this life?  Have you written your goals down?  Have you been specific?

The Mastermind Principle

The second principle and the one I’d like to focus on in this message was the Mastermind principle.  He asserts that no one that has achieved any significant success has done it alone.  They all took advantage of the mastermind principle that entailed bringing together a small group of trusted people and using their synergistic power of prayer, creativity, and knowledge to spark ideas, solve problems, or provide resources.

So, if you could use a little push or need a serious shove in the right direction, find a few people that you trust and seek their prayerful consultation, mentorship, or collaboration.  I write about using a mastermind group in my book, ‘Talleyup: The Excitement of Value-based Living’ under the topic of spiritual consultation.

http://www.barbaratalley.com/index_files/TalleyUP_Reawaken_the_Dreamer_in_You.htm

List of Napoleon Hill’s 17 Success Principles

Some of Napoleon Hill’s other principles are a Positive Mental Attitude, Pleasing Personality, Applied Faith, Go the Extra Mile, Personal Initiative, Enthusiasm, Self Discipline, Accurate Thinking, Controlled Attention, Teamwork, Learning from Adversity and Defeat, Creative Vision, Maintenance of Sound Health, Budgeting Time and Money, and Cosmic Habitforce. http://www.naphill.org/

Continued from Part 5: Napoleon Hill’s 17  Success Principles- http://wp.me/ppImQ-rG

To continue to Part 7: Success and Money Are Spiritual Matters, click here:  http://wp.me/ppImQ-rV

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Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.

Part 5: May Day- Earl Nightingale Defines Success

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“Man Becomes What He Thinks About Most”

Success as defined by Earl Nightingale is, the “Progressive realization of a worthy ideal…  If a man is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where he is going, that man is a success.  If he doesn’t, he is a failure.” His “secret” to success was, “Man becomes what he thinks about most.”

So, I ask you to think about what you spend your time thinking the most about, your end goal or your obstacles, your fears or your success, your dreams or your doubts?    Mr. Nightingale was asked, “If it is that simple to achieve success just by thinking about it,  why don’t men use their minds more?” He responded that we receive our minds as standard equipment at birth, and it’s free. “Things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value upon.  Things we have to pay money for, we value.”

If You Want More Out of Life, Give More!

That’s the paradox he says, for the complete opposite is true. Everything that is of value, our minds, souls, dreams, intelligence, etc. are free.  The bible also affirms the simplicity of reaching success, “For everyone that askest, receiveth.”  Most people want more out of life than they are receiving.  His response to this was, “If you want more, provide more service.”  If you give less service, you will receive less compensation.  I guess in other words he’s saying, “We reap what we sow.”

Only 5% of People Are Successes

Earl Nightingale once made an astounding observation, and that is 95% of the people in life are unsuccessful.  That means that only 5% are living the life of their dreams.   He defines success as doing what you really want to do in life. It doesn’t matter so much what you do, as long as you choose to do it and it makes you happy.  If you choose to be a dancer, mother, janitor, or CEO, and you are doing it or making progress towards it, you are successful.  All of the truly successful people agree that success is not about money, but more about meaning, joy, purpose, and fulfillment.  It means taking advantage of the free will we have been given, choosing what we really want from the universe of possibilities, and then faithfully, confidently and steadily doing what we must to move closer to our ultimate outcome.

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Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.

Part 7A: May Day-Success and Money Are Spiritual Matters

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While money should not be the object of one’s life,  it is still a necessary requirement for responsible living.

No one wants or should be dependent on other people for their basic needs.  We have been given gifts and talents in order to contribute to the world and thereby earn a livelihood from our labor.  Certainly it is not a spiritual or noble thing to have to beg for one’s existence.  The key is to choose a path of service that we can commit to.  The key is ‘to choose’ what would bring us happiness.  Our work must become a labor of love, otherwise how can we stick with it, excel at it, and be joyful in the process.  No one wants to be served by someone whose heart is not in it and made to feel like that service is a burden.  It is however praiseworthy to be able to earn enough money to take care of ones family and be able to help the poor or other worthy causes.

Baha’u’llah, in ‘The Persian Hidden Words’ teaches, “The best of men are they that earn a livelihood by their calling and spend upon themselves and upon their kindred for the love of God, the Lord of all worlds.

Abdul-Baha, son of the Bahaullah, Prophet-Founder of the Bahai Faith corresponded with Andrew Carnegie on his ‘Gospel of Wealth‘ in 1912 when he toured America spreading his father’s teaching on unity.  http://tinyurl.com/nytimescarnegie

The following text is from that correspondence:

O respected personage!
I have read your work “The Gospel of Wealth” and noted therein truly apposite and sound recommendations for easing the lot of humankind. To state the matter briefly, the Teachings of Baha’ullah  advocate voluntary sharing, and this is a greater thing than the equalization of wealth.

For equalization must be imposed from without, while sharing is a matter of free choice. Man reacheth perfection through good deeds, voluntarily performed, not through good deeds, the doing of which was forced upon him. And sharing is a personally chosen righteous act: that is, the rich should expend their substance for the poor, but of their own free will, and not because the poor have attained this end through force. For the harvest of force is turmoil and the ruin of social order.

…I have seen the good effects of your own philanthropy in America, in various universities, peace gatherings and associations for the promotion of learning, as I travelled from city to city… For more information on the Bahai Faith, a religion dedicated to service to humanity, check out. http://www.bahai.org/

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c) 2010, Barbara S. Talley- All Rights Reserved

Barbara Talley is a keynote speaker, author of six books, and trainer on value-based living themes.  She also offers Effective Communication, Diversity, Leadership, Time Management, and Goal Setting workshops.  Visit her at www.thepoetspeaks.com or contact her at 301-428-4831.  You may email her at Barbara@ThePoetSpeaks.com.