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Think And Grow Rich
Step Two Faith

"all thoughts that have been emotionalized (given feeling through desire) and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart."

What he alludes to, but does not fully explain, is that it is our beliefs themselves that either empower us to soar to previously unimaginable heights or chain us to the lower echelons of achievement.


Not only must you have a burning desire for a specific thought of success, but you must also have the faith or belief that success is not only available to you as an abstract, but it is your birthright and all you need to do is claim it as your own and it shall be yours.

Your faith in your ideal and your faith in your right to the ‘haveness’ of this ideal is crucial to your being able to end up having it.

Most people have their faith or belief formed by the evidence of what has already happened or been made manifest.

As a result, they find it difficult to believe in things that are not historically proven.

If what has been historically proven for the masses and for you personally (thus far) is mediocrity, then without the belief in the potentiality of success as being 'as real as' the actuality of mediocrity, you will not be able to achieve the imagined ideal of success.

Hill also goes on to say in his best self help books, that autosuggestion or repeated affirmations can enable faith and belief.

He does not address the issue of core beliefs that can, despite all affirmations to the contrary, imprison a person in lack and limitation.

Hill, himself, was fortunate that his association with Carnegie, and the other self-made successful people that Carnegie introduced him to, enabled him, over time, to discard any core beliefs he may have had about wealth or poverty and success or failure and to take on new core beliefs.

He was, in effect, brainwashed by his own research into best self help books principles of success, so that his core beliefs became those he wrote about.

You may have to do the same, ’Brainwash Yourself’, cleanse your mind of any limiting core beliefs you may hold so that new empowering beliefs can be installed.

In Hill’s best self help books, Think and Grow Rich, Hill tells us, 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 auto-suggestion. It is a state of mind which you may develop at will, after you have mastered the thirteen principles, because it is a state of mind which develops voluntarily, through application and use of these principles.

Repetition of affirmation of orders to your subconscious mind is the only known method of voluntary development of the emotion of faith.

And all thought which have been emotionalized and mixed with faith, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

As you throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and begin to build your own life to order, taking inventory of mental assets and liabilities, you will discover that your greatest weakness is lack of self-confidence.

The application in these best self help books of the principle of autosuggestion, is done in the following way.

First. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I Demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Second. I realize the dominating 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 thirty 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, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it, therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself 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 trying, until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

Fifth. I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction, which does not benefit all whom it affects.

I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people.

I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others.

I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism.

By developing love for all humanity.

Because I know that a negative 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.

I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory, and repeat it aloud once a day, with full Faith that it will gradually influence my Thoughts and Actions so that I will become a self-reliant, and successful person.

Step One Desire

Step Three Auto-Suggestion