Second Principle to TAGR

Faith — the Second Principle to TAGR

While most associate “faith” with religion, we hold faith in all things. We have faith that the Sun will rise (actually that the world will rotate), that the water from the city pipes will be clean and potable, that our car will start in the morning to take us to work, that the price of Bitcoin will be stable one day, and so on.

You would never have even thought of your main desire unless faith was tugging at your mind. So, even when you find it difficult at times to have faith in yourself, you can be certain and have faith in the truth that these principles work. Napoleon Hill writes,

“Faith is a state of mind which may be induced or created by affirmation or repeated instructions to the subconscious mind through the principle of conscious autosuggestion.”

Conscious autosuggestion simply means a suggestion by you yourself to you yourself, just as an autobiography is a biography written by the person it’s about. By getting a mental image of yourself already having accomplished your main desire repeatedly, you will muster the faith you need to take on the challenge.

Faith is vital to all accomplishments. The emperor Napoleon Bonaparte said,

“All-scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before one single word ‘faith.’”

Even inventor and mathematician Blaise Pascal said,

“Faith affirms many things, respecting which the senses are silent, but nothing which they deny, it is superior to their testimony but never opposed to it.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said,

“The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty,”

and August Wilhelm von Schlegel put it like this,

“In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.”

Have faith that you can accomplish that which you seek because you would never have envisioned it and decided upon it unless it was meant for you to accomplish.

In his chapter on faith, Napoleon Hill gives us this self-confidence formula. Say to yourself:

First — I know that I have the ability to achieve the objective of my definite purpose in life. Therefore, I command in myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here now promise to bring such action.

Second — I realize that dominant thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward physical action and gradually transform themselves into physical reality. Therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for 30 minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

Third — I know through the principle of auto-suggestion that any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object itself. Therefore, I will devote myself 10 minutes daily, specifically to the development of self-confidence.

Fourth — I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop developing sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

Fifth — I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built upon truth and justice (the rock and not the sand). Therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to myself the support I wish to use and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve with me because of my willingness to serve with them. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing a love for all humanity because I know that a negative mental attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them and in myself.

Just in my re-reading of TAGR so that I could write this summary for How to Createyourself readers, I was struck all over again by this chapter on faith, particularly the examples of how some of the world’s greatest men have accomplished what appeared to be impossible through faith.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” — Hebrews 11:1

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