Definite Major Purpose: The starting point of all human achievement is the development of a Definite Major Purpose. Without a definite major purpose, you...

The secret of achievement was tantalizingly offered to readers of Think and Grow Rich, but was never explicitly identified by author Napoleon Hill. Hill felt discovering it for themselves would provide readers with the most benefit. He presented the idea of a "Definite Major Purpose" as a challenge to his readers in order to make them ask themselves, "In what do I truly believe?" For according to him, 98% of people had no firm beliefs, and this alone put true success firmly out of their reach.

Develop Definiteness of Purpose

Success and progress towards achieving your goals in life begin with knowing where you are going.
Any dominating idea, plan, or purpose held in your conscious mind through repeated effort and emotionalized by a burning desire for its realization is taken over by the subconscious and acted upon through whatever natural and logical means may be available.
Your mental attitude gives power to everything you do. If your attitude is positive, your actions and thoughts further your ends? If your attitude is negative, you are constantly undermining your own efforts.
The starting point of all human achievement is the development of a Definite Major Purpose.
Without a definite major purpose, you are as helpless as a ship without a compass.


"The more clear and definite you make your picture then,and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be, and the stronger your desire, the easier it will be to hold your mind fixed upon the picture of what you want."

Wallace D. Wattles