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    Dream Big: Overcoming Fear and Achieving Success
    Dream Big: Overcoming Fear and Achieving Success
    Dream Big: Overcoming Fear and Achieving Success
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    Dream Big: Overcoming Fear and Achieving Success

    By Napoleon Hill

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    A little book of wisdom from Napoleon Hill

    Napoleon Hill has changed the lives of millions of readers, helping them seize their own potential to create lives of abundance and fulfillment. Dream Big is a pocket-sized collection of some of Hill’s most timeless advice in the form of excerpts, articles, and transcripts of his speeches. These snippets of wisdom are brief, but powerful—quickly digestible chapters that will motivate, inspire, and transform. They include:

    Let Ambition Be Your Master
    What I Learned from Analyzing over 10,000 People
    Adversity Is a Blessing in Disguise
    Self-Control
    A Definite Aim of Life
    And more…

    For both long-time readers of Hill and those who are just being introduced to his life-shifting worldview, Dream Big is a challenge to envision your most ambitious aspirations and then make them reality.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateOct 11, 2022
    ISBN9781250861887
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    Napoleon Hill

    Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in a one-room cabin on the Pound River in Wise County, Virginia. He is the author of the motivational classics The Laws of Success and Think and Grow Rich. Hill passed away in November 1970 after a long and successful career writing, teaching, and lecturing about the principles of success. His lifework continues under the direction of the Napoleon Hill Foundation.

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      Dream Big - Napoleon Hill

      INTRODUCTION

      By Joel Fotinos

      This little volume contains gigantic ideas. If you have dreams, then the ideas contained within can help!

      Let’s start with a little background information. Dream Big is a selection of some of Napoleon Hill’s most inspirational and motivational writings on the topic of living your dreams. Hill is most known for his bestselling book Think and Grow Rich, which has sold millions of copies since its initial publication in 1937, and continues to inspire millions of readers every year. Hill also helmed several magazines (from which some of the writings in this volume originated), as well as several more books. It has been said that Hill inspired more people to become millionaires and billionaires than any other writer in modern history.

      Five of the little chapters in this book are from articles that Hill wrote approximately a hundred years ago. Three of the chapters are adapted from Hill’s magnus opus Think and Grow Rich, and the final chapter is material taken from his encyclopedic book The Law of Success. But all of it is aimed to show the reader—you!—that there are definite steps to take in the attainment of passions and goals. Perhaps it will inspire you to go and read Hill’s other writings.

      It’s important to note that while the ideas Hill writes about are timeless, Hill’s writing was very much of his time. His work is easy to read, but at times the examples he uses, or the language he uses, will seem old-fashioned. This is especially true in his use of the masculine pronoun, and using the word man to describe humankind, which was the norm of his time. We’ve left this intact, in the effort to keep this material as accurate to his original writings as possible.

      But Dream Big isn’t about Napoleon Hill, it’s about YOU. The ideas in this volume were chosen to give practical, time-honored advice on such important topics as finding your definite aim in life, turning failure and adversity into blessings, protecting yourself from negative influences, overcoming our own self-defeating attitudes (he calls them alibis), and overcoming fear.

      There are longer books by Napoleon Hill than Dream Big, but there aren’t any that have more heart! I invite you to read this book like a short guide to empowerment, with advice by a life coach who wants to help you succeed. Read each little chapter, and then ask yourself which ideas most resonate with you, and perhaps write those down in the margin or in a journal. Next, ask what actions the chapter asks or inspires you to take, and write those down as well. And then … take those actions!

      Great success is built step by step. Let this book help you find some steps to take toward your success.

      One more thing …

      Enjoy the journey. This book has several reminders that we aren’t meant to live small, scared lives. We are meant, Hill would tell us, to have a passion (definite aim) that burns a powerful flame in our hearts. That fire fuels us to wake each day with enthusiasm and make as many positive choices toward that goal as we can. We can overcome our fears, our alibis, and our procrastination.

      How? Turn the page …

      ADVERSITY—A BLESSING IN DISGUISE

      Friend, do not become discouraged, disappointed and disheartened, if the seemingly cruel hand of fate knocks you off of your feet. Maybe the blow will prove to be the greatest blessing that ever came your way.

      It has happened to many and doubtless it will happen to you, when the dark clouds of despair have darkened the pathway of life’s progress, that behind each dark cloud is a silver lining, if we only learn how to see it.

      There were two men who established and built up an enormously successful commercial institution. They owned the stock in the company about equally. One of the men, who had lots of initiative, began selling off some of his stock, thus enjoying for personal use a large amount of ready cash from the proceeds.

      His associate in the business, who didn’t possess quite so much initiative, wanted to sell some of his personal stock that he might also enjoy some ready cash from the proceeds. But not a dollar could he sell. He appealed to his associate who was finding a ready market for his stock, requesting the associate to help him dispose of his stock. But the associate refused, suggesting that he do his own selling. This refusal resulted in a serious disagreement between the two men, which finally ended in a complete dissolution of their friendly business relations.

      Now let us see what happens. The one who could not find a market for his stock was the fortunate one in the final crisis. The one with the ready initiative, who sold his stock, sold with it by so doing, his voice in the management of the business. When the climax was reached in their disagreement, the one who couldn’t sell his stock naturally had, BY FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES, the control of the business, so he used his power to his own salvation and to the great detriment of his associate, by voting him out of the Presidency of the corporation and voting himself into that office.

      The fact that he couldn’t sell his stock was A BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

      There was once a young man who was President of a corporation which was making lots of money. He owned automobiles, had servants and all the other luxuries which go with a successful business. He trusted his banker too far by borrowing money for expansion purposes. The banker wanted this young man’s interest in the corporation, because he knew the young man was making lots of money and the banker happened to be dishonest. In the 1907 Roosevelt Panic he saw his chance and closed him out. It seemed like a dark day for the young man. All was lost. But watch the roulette wheel of destiny as it spins around by the force of the hand of fate. His loss forced him to go back to the practice of law. This brought him in touch with a million-dollar corporation which employed him at a salary of $5,000.00 a year, a salary which he wouldn’t have thought of accepting from

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