22 October 2018
Informative Speech Outline: Napoleon Hill
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the success and life of Napoleon Hill, greatest writer of success books and mostly known for his book “Think and Grow Rich”.
Central Idea: Napoleon Hill was born in 1883 in poverty, became an attorney/journalist and later became the greatest motivational speaker ever known. He started as a journalist writing stories about important men, he was on a quest to interview millionaires so as to find the ultimate success formula.
Introduction: Attention Getter: Show of hands? How many of you believe there is a formular of success? After doing extensive research (his whole life work) he boiled it down to 6 steps which I am going to briefly talk about. Credibility: I chose this topic because I too am very fascinated and interested in being successful, who wouldn’t be. Preview: Today, I am here to inform you about his life work.
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and the burning desire to possess it.” -Napoleon Hill
Body:
Background Information:
Napoleon Hill was born an raised in poverty, which gave him an interest and need of success. He grew up looking for a way to become rich and finally after intensive research he figured out the key to success making him most famous book writer and motivational speaker.
Napoleon Hill, started as a journalist to fund his studies in law school, he wrote articles about rich men, one time he asked Andrew Carnegie to interview him .
From there on Carnegie sponsored him to continue interviewing many rich people it said he interviewed over 500 millionaires. He wrote a book titled Thing and Grow Rich through which he put in the following Keys of success.
1. THE POWER OF THOUGHT
Think about;
What is it you really want? Do you want a better job? Do you want to succeed in your current career?
If you DESIRE so strongly, you will be able to make this desire a reality.
Is there a business leader who inspires you? What would it be like to work for them?
What are you willing to give up in order to make your dream a reality?
Never quit. Never give up. Focus.Seek help. Make new connections.Take different approaches. Seek additional resources to help you improve your goal. Persist and find people who can help you to achieve your goals.
Desire + Ideas + Plans + Massive Action = Success
When you begin to THINK AND GROW RICH, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with a sense of purpose, with little or no hard work.
“You are the master of your fate, the captain of your soul.”
Where is Your Focus?
DESIRE: THE TURNING POINT OF ACHIEVEMENT
“Every Failure brings with it the Seed of an Equivalent Success”
Failure in a job, failure in school, getting laid off, getting fired. Look for the lessons and examine them without the emotional attachment of why something failed. Make a commitment with yourself to use failure as a stepping stone to your greatest accomplishments.
Your best course of action is to create a plan for an even better situation.
Get more by helping others
In a work situation you have to accept the fact that you are subjugating what you want to do in a work-sense to what your employer(s) want to do. You are helping the owners of the company achieve their goals and your manager(s) achieve theirs. The more you can accept this and excel at it, the more you can advance your own interests.
A potentially negative outcome of a situation is also a powerful motivator. Where you are pushed to take action because of the negative consequences of not taking action.
Is there someone at the top of your field whom you admire? What if you were able to act as an apprentice to this person, how would that affect your career trajectory?
What is it that you desire above all else?
As it pertains to your career, what is your ideal job?
What are the traits of your ideal boss or manager?
What would be your ideal company to work for?
FAITH VISUALIZATION OF, AND BELIEF IN ATTAINMENT OF DESIRE
Faith is an essential ingredient for success as a jobseeker, but it can’t be the only ingredient. Nevertheless, faith is the glue that holds it all together.
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 essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage and eliminate negative emotions.
FAITH is the starting point of all accumulations of riches
If you can believe in yourself, then others will believe in you.
Laws of Attraction
Discipline yourself to find examples of people who have gotten jobs, who are making money, who are successful, so you can focus on the positives instead of wallowing in misery.
“Your own success or failure is based largely on your self-belief, and a mind-set of positive expectancy is the foundation of which your success can be achieved.”
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
AUTO-SUGGESTION THE MEDIUM FOR INFLUENCING THE MIND
Auto-suggestion or self-suggestion is the agency of communication between the part of the mind where thinking takes place, and that which serves as the seat of action for the mind.
No thought can enter the mind without the aid of the principle of auto-suggestion.
Communicate the object of your DESIRE directly to your SUBCONSCIOUS mind in a spirt of absolute FAITH.
The repetition of this procedure will create thought habits which are favourable to your efforts to transmit desire into its monetary equivalent.
To use auto-suggestion for career purposes, substitute the attraction of money with the attraction of income, or the attraction of your dream job. Have FAITH, be PERSISTENT. Just don’t quit, keep on keeping on!
SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OR OBSERVATIONS
The accumulation of great fortune calls for POWER, and power is acquired through highly organized and intelligently directed SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE, but that knowledge does not, necessarily, have to be in the possession of the man who accumulates the fortune.
It pays to know how to purchase knowledge.
“If his services do not bring adequate returns in one occupation, he must change to another”. It is important to change with the times and keep up to date.
Re-learn, enroll in online courses and pursue further study to stay ahead.
IMAGINATION: THE WORKSHOP OF THE MIND
The impulse, the DESIRE, is given shape, form, and ACTION through the aid of the imaginative faculty of the mind.
It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine. Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in his development and use of his imagination.
Synthetic Imagination
Through this faculty, one may arrange old concepts, ideas or plans into new combinations. This faculty creates nothing but merely works with the material of experience, education and observation.
Creative Imagination
Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes. Ideas are products of imagination.
It’s time to use your imagination to get out of a rut and into your next big thing.
Technology + Right Approach = Faster Results
“Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis.”
ORGANIZED PLANNING, THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF DESIRE INTO ACTION
The Importance of Planning
Everything a man creates or acquires, begins in the form of DESIRE, that desire is taken from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATIONS, where PLANS for its transitio
n are created and organised.
Leaders & Followers
There are two types of people in this world; LEADERS, and FOLLOWERS.
It is no disgrace to be a follower, but equally, it is no credit to remain a follower. Most great leaders began in the capacity of followers.
They became great leaders because they were INTELLIGENT FOLLOWERS. An intelligent follower has many advantages, among them, the opportunity to acquire knowledge from his leader.
Important factors of Leadership:
Unwavering courage
Self-control
A keen sense of justice
Definiteness of decision
Definiteness of plans
The habit of doing more than paid for
A pleasing personality
Sympathy and understanding
Mastery of detail
Willingness to assume full responsibility
Cooperation
Leadership calls for POWER, and power calls for COOPERATION.
DECISION: THE MASTERY OF PROCRASTINATION
Procrastinations, the opposite of DECISION, is a common enemy which practically every man must conquer.
Successful people have the habit of REACHING DECISIONS PROMPTLY, and of changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed.
Those who reach DECISIONS promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it. The leaders in every walk of life DECIDE quickly and firmly.
DECISIONS always requires courage, sometimes very great courage.