“Both Success and Failure are Largely the Results of Habit.”
When Napoleon Hill talked about the Law of Habit, he meant how you shape your personality through repetition of the same behavior patterns and ways of thinking.
Where finances are concerned, what blocks a person’s ability to use the Law Of Attraction and manifest their desires is that he believes his earning capacity is limited to a certain amount.
And he will never earn more than this amount.
But it’s no wonder why we are conditioned to think this. When searching for work, we often discuss the market rate for our skills and experience, and it’s usually capped at a certain amount.
This thinking is faulty, though, because this thinking limits us.
We are “valued” by other people’s perceptions of our worth.
Try putting those people aside for a moment. What do you believe is your self-worth?
If you imagine an amount, ask yourself, why that amount? And is that the limit to your capacity to earn?
And we all have a limit.
As Napoleon Hill says, if this is what you believe, you’ll never earn more than that because the Law Of Attraction sets a definite limit on the amount you can make, and your subconscious will accept this limitation.
Eventually, you’ll become caged by this limitation, and because your belief is so deeply rooted, opportunities will no longer come knocking at your door.
Isn’t this utterly depressing? Does it have to be this way?
Well, no! You can use this differently.
Here’s how.
Set in your mind an accurate and definite description of what you want, including the amount of money you will earn.
Then visualize it every day.
As your subconscious uses this vivid imagery as a blueprint, it starts to convert your thoughts and actions into plans that will allow you to achieve your objectives.
Because the way you think does indeed control how you behave.
So, start helping yourself by demanding prosperity, not just expecting it.
Napoleon Hill talks about developing a habit of saving: an acceptable way of defeating the poverty consciousness that forms from thinking about lack rather than prosperity and fearing poverty.
If you continuously think of prosperity rather than poverty and lack of money, you will undoubtedly change your attitude to the whole flow of financial energy through your life – and the reality with which you live.
Ultimately the question is, how exactly are you going to do this?
You have to truly believe in your capacity to attract money and accumulate it (rather than dispose of it and dispel it).
You have to get to the root of the beliefs you hold about yourself and about money in your life.
And change them so that you actually believe you can accumulate wealth (instead of whatever you are doing with wealth at the moment).
Therefore the critical question is: When you receive money, do you think about how you’re going to spend it OR do you think about how you’re going to save it and make it grow?
“Unfortunately the most of us are reared by parents who have no conception whatsoever of the psychology of habit, and, without being aware of their fault, most parents imbue their offspring in the development of the spending habit by overindulgence and lack of training in the habit of saving.”— Napoleon Hill
Have you ever looked at yourself and asked what perceptions and outlook you inherited from your parents?
