How to Overcome Drifting
Napoleon Hill created 10 steps on how to overcome the habit of drifting and utilize your minds to its full potential:
- Think for yourself on all occasions. The mind is the only thing in life that we possess complete control over, so utilize it.
- Decide on exactly what you want from life and create a plan for achieving it. Be willing to sacrifice everything else rather than accept permanent defeat.
- Analyze temporary defeat and learn from your experiences.
- Be willing to render useful service equivalent to what you want from life, and render the service first.
- Recognize that your brain is a receiving set for the universal storehouse of infinite intelligence, which will help transmute your desires into a physical equivalent.
- Recognize that time is your greatest asset, the only thing you can control other than thought. Budget your time so that nothing is wasted.
- Realize that fear is generally filler in your mind whose purpose is to cause you to drift. Fill this space with thoughts of faith in your ability to get what you demand from life.
- Never beg, demand what you want and insist upon getting exactly that.
- Never accept from life what you do not want. You master life or it masters you.
- Realize that dominating thoughts attract exactly what you think about. Be careful of what your thoughts dwell upon.
You can read more about Napoleon Hill’s philosophy on drifting in the book Outwitting the Devil: The Secret to Freedom and Success
