The Missing Ingredient of Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich

Ever since I was in college, I've enjoyed downloading and reading self-help ebooks in every related category, and for free. Digital versions of popular paper self-help books, such as "The Science of Getting Rich", "As A Man Thinketh", and "Think and Grow Rich" (these were the very first books I've downloaded) were bestsellers back in their day, as they are popular downloads even now. These ebooks, as well as other self-help ebooks I've downloaded later, had something in common: that you had to switch your mind from what they call a "poverty mentality" to a "wealth mentality". Their hearts are in the right place, and they mean what they say about having a mindset of abundance and wealth. But there is one ingredient that they've left out, and Napoleon Hill should've renamed the title of his bestseller book: you've got to "Think, Do, and Grow Rich".

Walking the walk an talking the talk are interconnected; they can't be separated. You got to talk the talk to explain the reason of what you do. You got to walk the walk to back your words up. Thinking, doing and growing rich is the same thing. Thinking and visualizing is good and all, but like a GPS map to give you driving directions, alone it's not enough. Doing and fulfilling can take you to new places, but like a vehicle with fuel, alone it's not enough. Combining the two gives you a clear path on your goals and dreams. A GPS device that gives you driving directions is useless without a vehicle to take you to your desired location, and the other way around. Would you slave away at a 9-to-5 job and earning a paycheck only to blow it on something that won't help you in the long run? Would you think and think and think until you had a serious headache only to lose valuable time not doing what should've done to get to the dreams you've desired? One can't exist without the other. You can work harder and harder and harder until you've put yourself in the hospital, but without a goal, a desire or a dream to back your work up, if you don't work smarter as well, all of what you've done would be for nothing. Likewise, you can daydream about that sleek Lambo (short for Lamborghini), being driven to new places in a long limousine, a 100-room mansion on a tropical paradise setting overlooking an ocean with a sunset sight, a $500,000-a-week income, and an unlimited bank account, but if you don't actually do something to get closer to those dreams of yours, you'd be splurging in another way, and unlike money, Father Time doesn't give refunds.

So if you want something very badly, if you have a dream that you like to fulfill, you must remember to think first, do second, and then grow rich. Think about what you want, do something about it, and THEN grow rich. Not the other way around. Don't take thinking and doing separately. That's the fastest way to failure. Combining thinking and doing is the fastest way to success, and the life of your dreams.