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Who Needs a Definiteness of Purpose? You!
"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement, and its lack is the stumbling block for ninety-eight out of every hundred people simply because they never really define their goals and start toward them," said Napoleon Hill.
Are you one of those ninety-eight people?
What is the most important thing you would like to accomplish in your lifetime? What is your definiteness of purpose? "I don't know" is not an acceptable answer; it will not get you very far.
If you are stuck, try this. Answer this question: I want...
Sit down with a piece of paper and start writing and continue writing until you've exhausted all your wants. You may start out by writing you want this car, or a big house, or a yacht. Keep on going and you will eventually come to the meat of the matter. "You" will begin to speak. Find the common threads in your answers.
"There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it," continued Napoleon Hill.
Read what others have said about definiteness of purpose:
"I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all, and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy." Og Mandino
"When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be." Patanjali
"When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power." Grenville Kleiser
"Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose." Viktor Frankel
"Sad will the day be for any man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, with the thoughts he is thinking, and the deeds he is doing - when there is not forever beating at the door of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do." Philip Brooks
"If you know what you want from life, if you are determined to get it to the point that it becomes an obsession, and you back that obsession with continuous effort and sound planning, then you have awakened and developed definiteness of purpose." Napoleon Hill
I encourage you to awaken your definiteness of purpose! It's the starting point of all achievement!
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