Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations for Making Each Day a Success [Hardcover]

Napoleon Hill (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1995

Quotations from the writings of the author of Think and Grow Rich!, many from unpublished material, are followed by advice and a detailed plan-of-action for putting each concept into practice, for a year full of success.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Adult (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525939970
• ISBN-13: 978-0525939979
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,163,914 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A DAILY PRIMER FOR OVERCOMING YOUR "STALLED" THINKING, February 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success (Mass Market Paperback)

The weakness of most programs for helping a person improve his or her life is the lack of follow-up. New principles have to be applied repeatedly before they become new habits that overcome the old (bad habits arising from "stalled" thinking) that caused the problem in the first place. Many books make no attempt to deal with this. Napoleon Hill in his classic, THINK AND GROW RICH, did address the question originally by providing daily exercises for the reader to follow. Many people probably find that they lack the self-discipline, the time, or other key resources to follow that good advice. For those people (probably 99% of us), this book is helpful, because it is easier to use on a daily basis. Although these meditations will leave you short of the results you would get from following Napoleon Hill's original advice, they may keep you going to the point where you become motivated to do that. As such, this book is a great investment for almost everyone.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Being Positive Always Wins the Day, December 1, 2002

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Kyle Webster (Bloomfield, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success (Mass Market Paperback)

This book is organized by days of the year, but I enjoyed just opening it and discovering my "message" for the day. I opened it just now and one of the affirmations was "a negative mind only spawns negative ideas." Following is a short paragraph discussing the point. The affirmations are seemingly simple, but they lead to deeper issues and consideration of how you engage your mind and how you intereact with the world because of it. It is a good precursor to my current favorite book (recently published) on "positivity" - The One Minute Guide to Prosperity and Enlightenment - which gives actual techniques on how to use your positive energy/positive attitude to achieve financial and spiritual success. I just opened the One Minute Guide to a chapter with the title - "Take Control of Your Thoughts: Everything that happens in your life depends on how you spend your thought energy. You are your thoughts." Everything is colored my our own perceptions and these affirmations and techniques reinforce and demonstrate ways in which you can continually strive to achieve a positive state of mind. Good reading!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Daily Meditations, September 28, 2001

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Heather L. Brown (Cahokia, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I have not "completed" this book (as I haven't had it for one year (365 days); I have found it to be helpful. This book is by no means "rules to live by for a better way to live", but it gives me information to read about on a daily basis and thoughts to ponder. As it has been proven, time and time again- by reading about these things on a regular basis (and through repetition)- miraculous results will begin to occur. This is an excellent book with which to read "in combination with other books". This book helps to set the foundation to help anyone who is willing to honestly "work" to be that person they have always wanted to be. I recommend this book to anyone who likes to read "daily meditations"... On another note, I am a major coffee drinker... it's real nice to sit down in the morning and have that Folgers "wake me up", but it's even better to read these daily meditations and have it "really open my eyes"!