What Role Does FAITH Play In Our Online Business Creation?

This Blog addresses the lessons of Chapter 3 of Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I just read this Chapter and learned some valuable techniques on how Faith can play a significant role in how your business evolves. Its success or failure depends on having a strong faith in yourself that you will succeed.

Chapter 3 was filled with valuable nuggets of ideas. I found a few that truly crystallized the message to me that I want to share.

The message that bridged Chapter 2 entitled Desire to Chapter 3 called Faith was:

There Are No Limitations To The Mind Except Those We Acknowledge.

Both Poverty And Riches Are The Offspring OF Thought

Visuaization

Napoleon Hill defined FAITH as the visualization of and belief in attainment of desire.

Let me throw in a few quotes from this chapter:

"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 autosuggestion."

In the previous chapter Desire, we were tasked to write down what the goal we want in specific terms, when we want to accomplish it, followed with the plan we will be using to achieve it.

Then we had to read this twice a day so that over time it would be embedded in our minds. This will put the power of autosuggestion to the test.

This next suggestion may seem obvious. But think about it:

"Perfection will come through practice. It cannot come by merely reading instructions"

Isn't this so true regarding the training we receive at Wealthy Affiliate? Just reading the lessons won't give us any results until we practice what we learned over and over again through doing. We have to take ACTION!

Here's another quote that is relevant:

Belief

"It is a well-known fact that one comes finally to believe whatever one repeats to one's self, whether the statement be true or false."

If we constantly tell ourselves we're going to fail, we are right. We will fail. The contrary is true as well. If we constantly tell ourselves that we will succeed, we will. So why not keep telling ourselves the latter? Even if we don't feel that way at the moment.

Later on Napoleon Hill goes on to reinforce the above with the following:

"The subconscious mind will translate a thought into reality driven by fear just as it will translate into reality a though driven by faith and courage."

Self Confidence Formula

One of the biggest hurdles we face is a lack of self-confidence. Chapter 3 gives us a 5 Part Self Confidence Formula that we all need to read over and over again. Not only read, but act on this formula as part of our lives.

I look at this process as programming our minds. We can program it to fail just as easily to program it to succeed. So why not do the latter?

This is one of the reasons to associate ourselves with positive thinking individuals. Which is what being a member of Wealthy Affiliate does for us. It may be difficult to do that in our personal lives.

One of the reasons being we are too accommodating of negative thinking people many of whom are our friends. We don't want to offend. And I can understand that as I feel that way too.

Play The Game To Win!

Being a member here changes the game. We might as well play the game to win!

Chapter 3 imparts a very powerful message. Please share what points in it that strongly resonates with you.

Thanks for working on yourselves to help improve how we work on creating our online businesses.

All the best in your affiliate marketing journey.

Edwin