Stage 1
Awareness
Wake up. Stop drifting. You are responsible for your life.
Read the full stage ›Napoleon Hill's principles of success, through a biblical lens.
Napoleon Hill's 20-stage Life System, read alongside Scripture. Each stage below pairs Hill's original idea with the biblical foundation it rests on, and what it looks like lived out.
Stage 1
Wake up. Stop drifting. You are responsible for your life.
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Accept that your choices are yours. You choose your thoughts, actions and results.
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Identify what controls you. Face your fears: don't let them run your life.
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Decide what you want your life to accomplish. Create your definite chief aim and write it down.
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Want it strongly enough to pay the price. Burning desire + commitment = unstoppable force.
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Believe you can become capable of achieving it. Faith + visualization + autosuggestion build confidence.
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Govern your thoughts, emotions, desires, and attention before you try to govern circumstances.
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Acquire specialized knowledge required. Knowledge is power when applied.
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See what doesn't exist yet, before you try to build it.
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Choose, commit, and stop drifting: indecision is itself a decision.
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Turn a chosen vision into a realistic sequence you can actually execute.
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Stop preparing. Execute.
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Keep going through resistance, without becoming stupidly stubborn.
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Stop trying to do everything alone: multiply yourself through others.
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Make other people better and more effective.
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Become useful enough that the marketplace rewards you.
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Turn income into freedom rather than lifestyle inflation.
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Make wise decisions when the data is incomplete.
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Use your capabilities for something larger than yourself.
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Leave something valuable that continues because you were here.
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