FAITH – The Power of Believing In Yourself

To achieve any level of success in life it is essential that you believe in yourself and your ability. You have to have FAITH in yourself.

In the classic book Think and Grow Rich the author, Napoleon Hill, says that faith is the “starting point for the accumulation of riches!” When Napoleon talks about “riches” he is really talking about achieving whatever type of success you would like to see happen in your life, such as ... 

-         Better health

-         Healthier relationships

-         A better career opportunity

-         A new car (or home)

-         Finding the love of your life

-         More wealth and financial stability

-         Whatever it is that you want

But no matter what you want, you must enough faith in yourself to believe you can make it happen. 

Find any extremely successful person who doesn’t have tremendous faith, belief, confidence in themselves. They just do not exist. Just a few examples can include Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Michael Jordan, Rory McIlroy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, or Abraham Lincoln. We can go on and on and every example is a person with a high level of personal faith. 

A close look at each of their lives will also show that they had many challenges in their lives (and some were massive challenges). It was their faith in their ability to overcome those challenges that kept them going until they achieved their goal. Because of their “faith” they understood what Napoleon Hill meant when he said,

No matter what you do in life, or what your desired goal is, you will run into some challenges, roadblocks, and hardships on the way. Your ability to achieve the goal lies in the strength of your faith in yourself. How badly do you want your goal? Do you believe in yourself enough? Are you willing to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal?

In Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill describes the importance of faith as:

-         Faith is the only known antidote for failure!

-         Faith … gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!

-         Faith is the basis of all “miracles” (achieving what we once felt was impossible)

And that last statement is really the key to your future success. Most people allow their past results to dominate what they think they can do in the future. Their past results become the limit to their future success. They are your “limiting beliefs.”

To overcome your “limiting beliefs” you need to embrace the concept that, “We are so much more powerful than we realize!”  It is time to stop letting the past hold you back from the future you can have.

How do you do this? By developing “faith” in yourself. 

How do you develop “faith” in yourself?  Faith can be created by the persistent repetition of affirmations to yourself about who you are and what you want. Understand that the development of faith happens when you get emotionally involved in the outcome you’re working towards. Like the people mentioned earlier (i.e. Abraham Lincoln, Elon Musk, Michael Jordan) you have to believe in yourself enough so that no challenge will stop you from achieving your goal.

If anything in this article has resonated with you, then I suggest you start studying the book Think and Grow Rich. This is not a book that is meant to be read once; it is meant to be studied over a lifetime. To become the master of your own destiny requires you to grow and mature over time. The success you want won’t happen without a consistent effort on your part.

If you are planning to study this material, I would also like to suggest that you find a group of like-minded people that can help you to understand, embrace and apply these principles. There is one group that I know that studies a chapter a week from Think and Grow Rich. They are led by Tim Burgess, who has been personally studying Think and Grow Rich every day for over twenty-four years. 

For over ten years now, Tim has been leading Think and Grow Rich Simplified study groups every week on Thursdays at 9:00 PM (EST). This book has made such a massive impact on Tim’s life that he now has a passion for helping other people see the power of these principles. If you would like to learn more about Tim’s study group click on the following link - Think and Grow Rich Simplified.