Law of Success (21st Century Edition)

176 THE PRINCIPLES OF SELF-MASTERY

COMMENTARY

Here, as in many other places, Hill seems vel}' far ahead of his time. In the preceding

passage, he anticipates the age of the Internet, recognizing that information may be

the most valuable commodity any man or woman can possess.

The world was never so resplendent with opportunity as it is today.
Everywhere there is an ever-increasing demand for the services of the
man or the woman who makes a better mousetrap or performs a better
service or preaches a better sermon or digs a better ditch or runs a more
accommodating bank.
This lesson will not be completed until you have made your choice
as to what your Definite Chief Aim in life is to be and then recorded a
description of that definite purpose in writing and placed it where you
will see it every morning when you arise and every night before you
retire.
Procrastination is ... but why preach about it? You know that you
are the hewer of your own wood and the drawer of your own water
and the shaper of your own Definite Chief Aim in life. Therefore, why
dwell on what you already know?
A difinite purpose is something that you must create for yourself No
one else will create it for you and it will not create itself What are you
going to do about it? and when? and how?

Desire

Start now to analyze your desires and find out what it is that you wish,
then make up your mind to get it. Lesson Three will point out to you
the next step and show you how to proceed. Nothing is left to chance
in this course. Every step is clearly marked. Your part is to follow the
directions until you arrive at your destination, as represented by your
Definite Chief Aim. Make that aim clear and back it up with a persist-
ence that does not recognize the word impossible.