My Definite Major Purpose Updated

I first read Napoleon Hill’s famous book Think & Grow Rich when I was 19 years old. In that book he explains that knowing your definite major purpose is the key to success. What’s a definite major purpose? It’s the thing that you desire most in life. Why is it the key? As Napoleon Hill says, “Our brains our magnetized with the dominating thoughts that we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, people and circumstances of life that harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”

Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out my definite major purpose. And I’ve learned some things…

1. You have to really want it. If you have to force yourself to think about it 10 times a day then it’s NOT it.

2. It changes. I’ve achieved my definite major purpose before and now I have another.

3. Spending the time to figure it out is worth it because you get exactly what you ask for (or extremely close to it).

4. If you read your definite major purpose statement, and it does NOT excite you, then you need to change it. Why? If it doesn’t excite you then you won’t do what it takes to bring it into your life.

All of this year my definite major purpose was to make $4000 a month building/supporting the Privateer Nation. When I first wrote this statement it excited me. Two weeks later it didn’t and I kept putting off changing it because I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Finally, I figured it out. It’s not the money that excites me. It’s the lifestyle the money will bring me that excites me. It seems like I’m being overly picky about words but in my experience you have to be. Here is my new and updated definite major purpose (by the way I carry this around with me at all times and look at it a couple of times a day)…

Say it out loud, “My definite major purpose is to be

living with my girlfriend near the beach

in an energy intense city in Florida

while making $4000 + a month building the Privateer Nation

before I’m 32 years old.”

For fun I included my notes on creating a definite major purpose….

Is it definite?

Does reading my definite major purpose make me excited?

Is it a burning desire?

Am I continually intensifying my desire for it in my mind?

The main thing, is the keep the main thing, the main thing.

Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient & appropriate physical form available.

An intangible impulse of thoughts can be transmuted into material rewards by the application of known principles.

Truly “thoughts are things” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence and a burning desire for the translation into riches or other material objects.

Our brains are magnetized with the dominating thoughts that we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, people and circumstances of life that harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

You may as well know right here that you can never have riches in great quantities unless you uncover the white heat of desire for the money and actually believe you can possess it.

Thoughts + Words + ACTION = Creation