Pursuit of Happyness (Part 1 of 2)

I stumbled upon Darren Lee’s blog:
http://www.darrenlee.net/blog/
And this post of his (http://darrenlee.net/blog/?p=41) introduced me to the up coming movie “Pursuit of Happyness”, starring Will Smith and his real son, opening Dec 15 2006 in the US.

It’s a movie based on a true story… about a man, Christopher Gardner, defying all odds and hardship to be successful in the end. Most elements in the movie are in line with Napoleon Hill’s teachings. Success is all in the mind. I will not repeat the synopsis here… watching the trailer and reading the synopsis will tell you much more than what I can tell you.

Here (http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thepursuitofhappyness/index.html ) is the movie’s official website and you’ll find the trailer & synopsis there. You can also read the same synopsis from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness )

I lost count on the number of times I played the trailer. It is so meaningful to me. Note the words uttered in the trailer – they are so powerful. I’ll write another post about them here.

For the story on the life of the real Christopher Gardner with pictures of those real people, read Wikipedia article on “Christopher Gardner” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gardner) and for a full feature article, read
“Chris Gardner has pursued happiness, from the Glide soup kitchen to the big screen” (October 10, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle) (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/10/DDGVLF4AI81.DTL)

This (http://www.chrisgardnermedia.com/ ) is believed to be Christopher Gardner’s official website.

Thanks Darren, for posting about this wonderful, inspiring movie.

Thought drug traffickers, rapists & murderers.

You can’t do that…,

You are not good enough…,
You can’t succeed…,
You want to … are you crazy ?

If there is anyone put you down in anyway…

From Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich :

You have ABSOLUTE CONTROL over but one thing, and that is your thoughts. This is the most significant and inspiring of all facts known to man! It reflects man’s Divine nature. This Divine prerogative is the sole means by which you may control your own destiny. If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

If you must be careless with your possessions, let it be in connection with material things. Your mind is your spiritual estate! Protect and use it with the care to which Divine Royalty is entitled. You were given a WILL-POWER for this purpose.

Unfortunately, there is no legal protection against those who, either by design or ignorance, poison the minds of others by negative suggestion. This form of destruction should be punishable by heavy legal penalties, because it may and often does destroy one’s chances of acquiring material things which are protected by law.

Men with negative minds tried to convince Thomas A. Edison that he could not build a machine that would record and reproduce the human voice, “because” they said , “one else had ever produced such a machine”. Edison did not believe them. He knew that the mind could produce ANYTHING THE MIND COULD CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, and that knowledge was the thing that lifted the great Edison above the common herd.

Men with negative minds told F. W. Woolworth, he would go “broke” trying to…

You have to take that comment/criticism away from your thoughts and subconcious mind. As long as it is in there…and you remember it … will be a poison. Napoleon Hill also wrote in Think and Grow Rich :

Criticism is the one form of service, of which everyone has too much. Everyone has a stock of it which is handed out, gratis, whether called for or not. One’s nearest relatives often are the worst offenders. It should be recognized as a crime (in reality it is a crime of the worst nature), for any parent to build inferiority complexes in the mind of a child, through unnecessary criticism. Employers who understand human nature, get the best there is in men, not by criticism, but by constructive suggestion. Parents may accomplish the same results with their children. Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

Realise that almost all people around us are not educated with Napoleon Hill’s teachings. Almost all do not read Think and Grow Rich. Of those little that read it, almost all of this small group do not remember it and practise it. So in the end, unfortunately, almost no one truly knows Napoleon Hill’s teachings. Your parents, relatives and friends (Napoleon Hill : ” One’s nearest relatives”) and most other ppl around us… at times they are criminals in the eyes of Napoleon Hill…and they “should be punishable by heavy legal penalties” (just like drug traffickers, rapists and murderers cause they poison a person like drugs, rape a person’s dream and murder a person’s potential). But because most ppl (our country or most countries) are not educated by Napoleon Hill, including politicians, such laws are not in place to prosecute offenders. And we can’t blame these offenders because they don’t even know it is a crime to start with (Napoleon Hill:” either by design or ignorance”)…so they do wrong.

As long as we know ourselves that what they have done is wrong…and we don’t let it affect us… this is what we can do.

Take care of your mind … guard it from thought drug traffickers, thought rapists and thought murderers.

Happy & delighted every time Napoleon Hill appears beside me.

I should not be afraid; in fact, I should be happy and delighted every time Napoleon Hill appears beside me.

I need him to give me the strength to face my family and friends and all those people who think that I am “different” (not taking a office day job etc etc).
I need him to help and encourage me to ward off all my worries which sometimes can be overwhelming.
I need him to assert and affirm that my success is guaranteed (this, of course, is dependent on how tightly I follow what he laid out in his book).

The moment I finished my life changing book.

It was 12:40am just now. As I usually sleep later than that (yes, I sleep late), I thought to myself, since I only have a few pages left before I finish “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill, why not just read as much as I can and go to bed at 1am.

I was hooked.

Just like how I was hooked when I started reading its 1^st few pages, I was hooked again this time. The next time I looked at my watch, it was already 1:50am, found myself finishing it and kissing that book.

Yes…can you believe it? I was kissing a book at 1:50am. And mind you, I am a person who considers himself lazy to read books. I usually can’t finish most of those that I started.

I loved it sooo much because I know success is on my way and because Napoleon Hill has shown me the way!

That last few pages of the book took me more than 1 hour because I read each sentence 3-4 times! Every sentence is so powerful that I can’t afford to miss a word … or a letter.

I will always remember 26^th of May, 2006, 1:50am…because that was the moment I finished my life changing book.

I am going to read it again from the beginning… or maybe I should start “How To Win Friends and Influence People” by “Dale Carnegie”, which is another classic.

Oh…I just felt Napoleon Hill standing at the back of me. Yes, it was scary. I felt cold suddenly. In fact, I am feeling cold now…as I am writing this. But I know he is there to guide me…and I should be happy whenever he shows his presence. I should feel the kind of happiness that others feel when they had a chance to meet their God.

If you think I have already gone crazy. Think again. I am definitely not. Pick up that book and read the chapter “The Thirteenth Step to Riches”. Now…only those who have finished the book understands what I am talking about. :)

Good Night.

THE Book

The name Napoleon Hill is central to this blog. It will be mentioned many many times. So, if you want to know who the heck this guy is, search “Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill” … and you’ll know.

There are many free e-book version of that book. So, if you are interested, you can just download and read it.

This is a picture of the book I am having now … :)

Oh ya, there is a chapter dedicated to sex … NOW… I see ya Googling that book :P