Lesson 7
The Growing Why
Your Why is a burning desire. It is the driving force that makes you achieve your ultimate goals. As your life progresses and your horizons expand, your Why will also naturally progress. Here's an important principle: Your Why expands as you grow.
With your Why growing and expanding, it is very likely you will notice more changes in your life. All of the sudden, you change your habits and you are more interested in investing more time in your personal development. Personal development is the key to advancing yourself mentally, physically and socially in order to achieve your Why.
The Power of Other People
As your Why expands and becomes more developed, you will find yourself growing past some old friends and your current lifestyle. Just visualize adding a drop of water to a glass every day. Soon the glass will overflow, and you will need a bigger glass. It's the same with your Why. You will outgrow the everyday normalcy. Your Why will start spilling over into every part of your life, and you will start to reach for bigger and better things.
It may be painful or difficult, but creating change in your life always provokes change in your friends. It often takes courage and resolve to make those changes especially when it means that you must leave behind people that you have known all of your life. Many times, those same people just fall away when they see the new you. However it happens, change will always bring new friends and lose some old ones.
One of the principles in Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" is to let great people shape your life. That principle will always carry us away from people who are not great and will only keep us from achieving