The Master Key to Richness - Napoleon Hill - Part 10

Habit force – The force that acts through established habits.

 

One may control his earthly destiny to an astounding degree – simply by exercising his privilege of shaping his own thoughts. Once the thoughts are shaped into patterns, they are taken over by the cosmic habit force and made into permanent habits, and they remain as such unless they have been supplanted by different and stronger thought patterns.

 

One of the most profound truths – the fact that most men who attain the higher brackets of success seldom do so until they have undergone some tragedy or emergency which reached deeply into their souls and reduced them to failure. The reason for this is – these disasters & emergencies serve to break up the established habits of man – habits which have led him eventually to the inevitable failure and thus break the grip of Cosmic Habit force and allow him to formulate new and better habits.

 

Poverty is the result of "poverty consciousness" which results from thinking in terms of poverty, fearing poverty and talking of poverty.

 

If you desire sound health, give orders to your subconscious mind to create it and Cosmic Habit force will carry out the order. If you desire opulence, give orders to your subconscious mind to produce opulence, thus developing a "prosperity consciousness" and see how quickly your economic condition will improve.

First comes the "consciousness" of what you desire, then follows the physical or mental manifestation of your desires. The "consciousness" is your responsibility. It is something you must create by your daily thoughts or by meditation if you prefer to make known your desires in that manner. In this manner one may ally himself with no less a power than that of the Creator of all things.

 

Mastery and assimilation of the philosophy, like every other desirable thing, has a definite price which must be paid before its benefits may be enjoyed. That price, among other things, is eternal vigilance, determination, persistence and the will to make Life pay off on one's own terms instead of accepting substitutes of poverty and misery and disillusionment.