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LIFE IS SHORT

Life is short! this statement is even more relevant today seeing the COVID 19 threats. 

Life is short! during this short time you can collect garbage or you can rather collect wisdom and proven to work experience. It all depends on what you read. Isn't it? (it also depends on who you share your life with), Well. how will you know to differentiate between garbage and pure gold such as wisdom. That might be thee most important question in a life time. The answer to this question may determine your lifetime, hence, you must be fully awake. 

Life is short! and I try to remember to invest this short time IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE 

Being aware that life is short, I chose to read the following  31 most influential books ever written about business here is the link published by business insider ( click here) . Thankfully, I already read some of those , hence, I will need less time to complete this very big task. So, for today, I bought those 2 ones ( audible version) 

1. "Business Adventures" by John Brooks
2. "The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success" by William N. Thorndike

Don't forget that in this same short time , you can collect garbage or you can rather collect wisdom and proven to work experience. It all depends on what you read. make the choice! 

 

 

Disciplines of Execution - 4 key disciplines

The "Disciplines of Execution", the new series of POSTS tis inspired by the book The 4 Disciplines of Execution . Please read the previous post for even better orientation: Disciplines of Execution - introduction

So, here is the general overview of the mentioned 4 key disciplines of execution: Think about those and in the next POSTS will start to "unpack the box" of each discipline and look "inside the box" and lean about the specific content 

1. THE DISCIPLINE OF FOCUS: Focus on your Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)

2. THE DISCIPLINE OF LEVERAGE: Work on the Lead Measures

3. THE DISCIPLINE OF ENGAGEMENT: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard

4. THE DISCIPLINE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Create a Rhythm of Accountability

1. THE DISCIPLINE OF FOCUS: Focus on your Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) - This key discipline of execution is all about focusing the WIGs = Wildly Important Goals. Well, every business has the so called " urgent" tasks to solve. Some of those so called " urgent" tasks may appear as external events driven by customers, new legal trade laws, by unexpected events ( covid-19) and or by the competition (by new technologies). In the same time, every business should have a vision to accomplish ( goals), So, the first DISCIPLINE OF FOCUS must determine the processes and procedures to attend to urgent events ( the so called " urgent" tasks ) as well as being focused and making the ongoing progress towards achieving the business vision and to to accomplish its goals. In other words, both the "urgent tasks" as well as the Wildly Important Goals must be treated with our forgetting one for the other. 
2. THE DISCIPLINE OF LEVERAGE: Work on the Lead Measures - All outcomes can be measured either as lead or lag measures. Lag Measures (e.g. weight loss) show your performance based on what happened in the past, while Lead Measures (e.g. diet and exercise) show the high-impact things that you must do now to reach your goal. This discipline is about deliberately focusing on the lead measures (or high-impact activities) that will drive your lag measures. In other words: the lead measures are the Wildly Important Goals broken down to smaller tasks that connect and synergise and have the impact over achieving the lag measures ( the main objective tat you wish to measure and see the compelling overall results) 
3. THE DISCIPLINE OF ENGAGEMENT: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard - It’s not enough for people to understand what the lead measures are. For team members to perform at their best, they must be emotionally engaged. Everyone must know the score at all times, so they know if they’re winning or losing. This discipline is about motivating your team with a scoreboard tailored to the team members and your specific Wildly Important Goals. In other words: ongoing measurements of progress in various criteria will act as the feedback that each team member will have to review their progress.
4. THE DISCIPLINE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Create a Rhythm of Accountability - It’s tough to execute a new strategy as it requires people to do something different while managing their daily matters as well as the so called "urgent tasks". The first 3 disciplines help to bring focus, clarity and engagement, while this discipline ( the 4th one) ensures that people actually do what they should consistently to achieve the Wildly Important Goals. It’s about creating a regular, recurring cycle, where people account for past performance and plan for further improvements to the score.

Disciplines of Execution - introduction

This POST is about "Disciplines of Execution". It is the new series of POSTS that will follow the previous series of posts about Napoleons Hill's 17 key principles of success. 

The "Disciplines of Execution", the new series of POSTS tis inspired by the book The 4 Disciplines of Execution . 

It doesn't matter how big and wild your dreams and goals are, without the ability to execute. you won't be able to achieve any significant goal! 

In most cases, you depend on other people: Your teams, customers and suppliers. Hence, if only you know how to execute both all the rest (Your teams, customers and suppliers) do not know how to execute on your vision and goals, you won't be able to achieve all your visions and goals. You depend on the execution of everyone that is involved in achieving your goals. Therefore, the ability to execute is an absolute reality that no one can ignore. 

It is about executing the "strategy" that is necessary in order to achieve your goals. In other words: every one must know:

1. What the business / organisation goals are 
2. What is their own role and own goal within the total business / organisation goal
3. What do they need to execute in order to align with the business / organisation total execution strategy. 

This sort of alignment is not obvious.  This alignment of execution must be constantly discussed (in details ), regularly practiced, measured, scaled and constantly improved. Doing so is a part of the Disciplines of Execution that will be discussed in the many POSTS that will follow this short introduction.

Disciplines of Execution is a necessity as most people fail on the execution. The main reason is that EXECUTION of growth strategies must take place in the environment of "life" that is full with unexpected obstacles and in spite of ongoing unexpected obstacles. Hence, mastering Disciplines of Execution is the key skill necessary to achieve anything that a business / organisation and any individual wishes to accomplish. 

Continue reading those related posts to take your execution to the next levels! 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 11

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 7

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 8

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 9

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 10

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 11. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of: "Control your attention AT WORK ". 

In nature, when 2 or more substances join together, new substances are created. The effect of the new joined substance is far greater as the 2 basic substances. For example oxygen and hydrogen join and create water ( the source of life). When Sodium and Chlorine join together ( two dangerous substances) they create = table salt which is totally usable and healthy. 

The same principle is relevant to thoughts ( one substance), connected with other thoughts ( an other substance) and combined with an event or circumstances or a situation and the combination of the 2 or 3 thought + events can together with "controlled attention", create powerful decisions and action! 

Thoughts about the following topics in combination of awareness and controlled attention can lead to miraculous powers. 

1. Definite of Purpose 
2. SELF discipline through emotional control 
3. Autosuggestion applied to attaining your purpose 
4. Willpower actively engaged and directed towards your purpose 
5. Controlled attention 
6. Personal initiatives  
7. Creative vision 
8. Applied faith 

 

For example: you have a business plan and you need money to be invested. You need this money in a certain date. There are two ways to deal with this situation:

1. You can worry about it and do nothing about raising the money 
2. You can go after raising the money by combining the above 8 principles

If you know how much money you need and you know when you need it as well as you are defined to get it on time. By doing o you have a DEFINITE OF PURPOSE. 

When you keep this DEFINITE OF PURPOSE in your mind and transmit it to your sub conscious. You automatically exclude all other ideas ( of doubts), by doing so you put your mind and sub conscious mind to work on figuring out the way to achieve your DEFINITE OF PURPOSE. This is the practical application of "controlled attention" via personal initiative. 

When the above happens, your mind is cleared of fear or any doubts. This is the self discipline activating the willpower hat is expressed through applied faith transmitted to your brain and your awareness as "autosuggestion" ( as if you already achieved your DEFINITE OF PURPOSE).  

All the above forces and actions will stimulate your imegination which will create the means through which the money will be created and handed over to you.  

once that you go the money that you needed, you will still be obliged to take action according to the other 17 success principles.  

There are two most important principles which are CONSTANT: 

1. Definite Of Purpose 
2. Controlled attention 

Thomas Edison wrote: the most important is that you know what you want to achieve ( definite of purpose and creative vision). Next is the you fix your mind on those visions and definite of purpose that you wish to achieve and you must stay persistent in taking action and searching for accumulative knowledge about how to get whatever you desire ( using master mind allieneces and controlled attention). The progress, the moving forward must be consistent, regardless to how many times you meet difficulty and disappointment ( express willpower). You must be resistance to negativity or to information about the failure of other people trying to achieve similar goals as you have in mind ( demonstrating: self discipline and applied faith). You must be sold on th idea and totally and absolutely believe that the solution to your "problem" definitely exists and you are certain to find it ( demonstrating: autosuggestion).

If you start with a vision / goal / definite of purpose in your mind and you keep being positive about attaining your vision. You will keep on searching and carving the path. The problem with most people is that they are not consistent and they quit before they even started. You must be realistic to the fact that you will never find the solution to any of your problem at your first attempt. Hence, you will fail and fail again and fail again. BUT, if you will never give up and you will restart again and again, you will DISCOVER that all that you wanted was in your reach and all that you needed was the controlled attention on the persistence that was necessary and that presistance was the key  to revel the path to achieving all your life desires and life goals!!! 

CONTROLLED ATTENTION harnesses many of the other success principles and heightens their powers and increases the effect of itself (CONTROLLED ATTENTION) by focusing and the current task. 

This POST his the last one in the POST series discussing Napoleon's Hill - 17 success principles. Thos 17 success principles re classic timeless principles that will never change and or will be never updated as they are pure perfection as they are. All that you need to do is study those 17 success principles again and again and again and again! Adopt them and use them. By doing so, you are guaranteed to experience thee most positive and fulfilling lifetime!!!

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 10

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 7

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 8

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 9

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 10. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of: "Autosuggestion" 

"Autosuggestion" starts by deliberately controlling your attention towards designing your success oriented surrounding environment in order to assist you to stay highly motivated and energetic , effective and efficient. 

"Autosuggestion" works and has a impact on: both conscious as well as sub-conscious. Every thought and word is recorded and suggests a positive and or a negative meaning. 

Your object of focus, the object that you direct your attention towards will become the most dominant influencing power. If you focus on poverty , thinking about avoiding poverty ( instead of thinking about success) etc...those thoughts, physical signals and objects from your life environment will transfer this message to your sub-conscious via "Autosuggestion". If you focus on poverty and accept the state of poverty, you will manifest poverty and introduce poverty into your life. 

Same thing and same principles apply to controlling your attention towards thinking about, logical safe and secure measures ( necessary for investing in success), success as well upon your definite of purpose. This kind of mindset ( and your sub-conscious mindset ) will lead to the manifestation of a success oriented mind. Being in this state and ( success) mindset will control your daily good habits ( and avoiding bad habits) which are responsible and which are thee conditions for achieving your definite of purpose ( your success). 

By controlling your attention towards successful thinking, successful inspiring ideas and upon your definite of purpose ( all your desires), by doing so, you actually and practically apply the principle of "Autosuggestion". There isn't any other way and or any better way to do it but to control your attention to what you wish to achieve in life ( your definite of purpose)..

Controlling your attention is therefore the condition of organising your mind arround things that you desire vs allowing your mind to adopt any kind of thought that do not necessary align with what you want to achieve and experience in your lifetime. 

REMEMBER that your mind never stops being occupied ( even while you sleep) with thinking and with thoughts ( ideas). Hence, you either take control over your mind and keep it exclusively busy WITH THOUGHTS and IDEAS that you choose to think about, or, your mind will drift into a chaotic situation and will drift towards NEGATIVE THOUGHT and IDEAS that you do not want to adopt. 

Practice "Autosuggestion" regularly and on a daily base. 

Hold your mind in your "hand" and control your thought and ideas

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 9

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 7

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 8

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 9. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of: 

• Enthusiasm 
• Attractive Personality 

Enthusiasm - You must control your attention towards your levels of enthusiasm. Simply because YOU MUST BE Enthusiastic enough in order to willingly take action rather than drag yourself to go out and do the job. Enthusiasm and being Enthusiastic is something you need to work on as it doesn't exist naturally in nature. You must create your state of Enthusiasm so that you will be able to stay in the state of being fully Enthusiastic. Yes, you are responsible to your levels of Enthusiasm. Like anything that you want to achieve in life , you must work for it and you must create it. By keeping your controlled attention on creating your own state of Enthusiasm you will become the practical definition of Enthusiasm. The closer you will get to your definite of purpose and to your end goals, the more Enthusiastic you will become. Simply because you will experience your own progress driven by your Enthusiasm.  

Attractive Personality - you must control your attention towards shaping your Attractive Personality. Remember that your competition and your opposition is coming from other people. Those other people will change from being your opposition and your competition and will become your best allies only when you will be more likeable by controlling and building your Attractive Personality. Controlling your attention towards shaping your Attractive Personality needs will power and self discipline. It is the controlled attention and self discipline that will be totally necessary in the process of removing your bad habits and replacing them with good and pleasant habits. Doing so will for sure contribute to your newly designed and controlled Attractive Personality. The practical outcome of controlled attention over building and maintaining yourAttractive Personality is = increase of influence as well as increased opportunities ( for collaborations) with both your allies as well as with your "enemies".

When you control your attention over the various 17 success principles, You actually take control over your own mind. Controlling your attention and controlling your own mind will turn you into a super effective and efficient result oriented person that will overcome any obstacle while moving fast and sound towards your definite of purpose and achieving all your life desires. 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 8

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 7

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 8. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of: 

• Creative Vision 
• Accurate Thinking 
• Learning From Defeat

Creative Vision - Controlling Your Attention and pointing it towards "Creative Vision " will enforce your sub-sub-conscious to adopt and accept your definite of purpose. It means that both your conscious mind as well as your sub-conscious will be busy with the Creative Vision to care the path towards your goals and achievements. The effect is so strong to the point that you may think that you are just "lucky" as more and more opportunities will present themselves to you. The truth is however, strongly connected in your controlled attention towards your Creative Vision which is in charge and the "hidden force" that is responsible to "making you as lucky as you are" and directing and attracting even more opportunities to you. Creative Vision is that that creates the tools, the growth environment and all that is necessary to assist you to achieve your definite of purpose as well as all your desires. 

Accurate Thinking - Controlling Your Attention and pointing it towards "Accurate Thinking" will ensure that you take action exclusively based on proven facts and logical conclusions rather than "guessing". Hence the necessity to control your Accurate Thinking and make sure that it is applied when it is necessary. 

Learning From Defeat - Controlling Your Attention and pointing it towards "Learning From Defeat" will ensure that you ( automatically) treat Defeat as a Learning From Defeat opportunity. So that every Defeat will be recognised ( tagged and signalled) by your brain as a LESSON rather than a LOSS. Controlling Your Attention towards Learning From Defeat will warn you from repeating same or similar defeats in the past and by doing you, your Controlled Attention will protect you from making future mistakes by recording and analysing past mistakes. Hence, your brain constantly records events ( successes and loses) and your Controlled Attention is the tool that will immediately recognise past mistakes and compare them to current possible similar mistakes and will alert you before you repeat another mistake that may cause another loss and or defeat. 

As you can realise, Controlling your attention is like constantly sharpening your knife and having it ready to CUT critical decision by being constantly alert and ready, focused and using your Controlled Attention quickly and effectively. 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 7

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of: Self Discipline 

Controlling Your Attention and pointing it towards "Self Discipline" will enforce the practice of self discipline about:

1. Preserving your positive energy and guarding your mind and state of being from any negativeyjoughts, fears and ideas.
2. Maintaining  your positive powers, positive emotions and energies that are so essential and so much necessary when controlling your attention. 

At this advanced point of practicing Napoleon's Hill key principles, your mind is already "half transformed" and running smooth and with minimal frictions ( thinner conflicts) at may waste your positive energies. You have "improved your game" of controlling your emotions ( via the practice of gratitude) and you can direct more emotions into positive forces that assist you to glide towards achieving more of your wishes and desires. 

"Controlling Your Attention" and pointing it towards "Self Discipline" allows you to better control your willpower. Controlling your will power means that there are less of the inner dialogs and self imposed conflicts about what to do and when to do it. You are the master and your willpower just obeys and lows you to control all the departs of your life: health, fitness, personal relationships as well as career and making more money. By doing so ( controlling your will power), you are reaching the peak performance and efficiency. You have more and more daily routines and you do not procrastinate. You just follow your routines and you see and can really your constant measurable progress. 

By "Controlling Your Attention" and pointing it towards "Self Discipline", you can feel that you "cracked the success code". You want to loose weight? you can! You want to select your friends and relationships? You can!. You want to make money, save more money, start investing your money? now you can! 

It is an uplifting feeling that you experience knowing that you can have it all. If you continue to be focusing on "Controlling Your Attention" and pointing it towards "Self Discipline",

"Self Discipline" for what? "Self Discipline" for staying on the path towards success. "Self Discipline" in order to carry out the daily routines and processes that are responsible to the much better situation that you are in today, compared to your situation a year ago, 2 years ago, 3 years ago and or 5 years ago. 

You are in a total different mindset and in an optimal growth environment ( surrounded by the right people) to make the next move up the leddaron the way to achieving your definite of purpose and all that you desire. It is this action of "Controlling Your Attention" and pointing it towards "Self Discipline" that is responsible to your act of transformation! Keep on moving and keep to your fanatic disciplines. Don't ever negotiate about your "self disciplines and your core value principles".

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. Stay on that bridge! 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 6. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and the principles of:

• POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE
• GOING THE EXTRA MILE 
• PERSONAL INITIATIVE 

 

• POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE - Remember that at this stage of PRINCIPLE #17. You have already adopted all previous principles and practiced them to a different degree. You will confirm ( you have to) that you already started to experience some successful changes in your life. You managed to earn and save some money. You became more fit ( healthy) and you have a much more POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE as well as a more POSITIVE view about life and its opportunities. Being in this situation will automatically reduce fear, doubt and your other self imposed limiting beliefs. At this POINT IN TIME you experienced self evidence and experience some luxuries and comfort of life. Now, your brain can be SET FREE to focus on further success as there is no room left for hosting the feelings of: failure or any negativity. You way forward into life will (at the point) focus on carrying out your plans ( one step at a time) that will bring you directly to achieving your DEFINITE OF PURPOSE. That is the state of total controlled attention of A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE
• GOING THE EXTRA MILE - When controlled attention is applied in this principle of GOING THE EXTRA MILE, it means that GOING THE EXTRA MILE must become a routine and an ongoing momentum. You can not be GOING THE EXTRA MILE and sometimes not be going GOING THE EXTRA MILE. Hence, in whatever activity you engage, GOING THE EXTRA MILE must become your "visit card" of who you are and hence, needs controlled attention to keep this principle alive and be engraved in your identity. When you fully idiot this GOING THE EXTRA MILE principe you will automatically be more positive as you already know the successful outcome of GOING THE EXTRA MILE throughout any of the Napoleon Hill's 17 key principles. 
• PERSONAL INITIATIVE - having your PERSONAL INITIATIVE screened regularly through your controlled attention is a must. It is a TOTAL MUST because your PERSONAL INITIATIVE is what you use in order organise your plans and synchronise all the action that you need to take in order to make the progress towards your goals. Taking a PERSONAL INITIATIVE in testing your business plans and winning strategies by sharing them with your mastermind alliance group is a critical PERSONAL INITIATIVE that will make sure that your business plans and winning strategies are sound and make sense. Every positive feedback resulting from your PERSONAL INITIATIVE will strengthen your will to go on and allocate even more controlled attention towards PERSONAL INITIATIVES as the winning strategy to achieve all your goals and life desires.

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5

Please first read the previous POST: It will assist you to have a better view over this most important topic of "Controlling Your Attention".  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention  ,  

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 2   

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 3 

Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 4

This POST is all about Napoleon Hill - Principle # 17 - Control your attention - part 5. This part will discuss the effects of "Control your attention" and th principle of APPLIED FAITH. 

Let's be as lear as possible and even better let us be crystal clear abut the connection of "Control your attention" and APPLIED FAITH. When you start implementing Napoleon Hill's 17 principles it actually means that you first think about those mentioned 17 principles. So. you are already controlling your attention by actually directing your attention to start thinking about implementing Napoleon Hill's 17 principles. You started by choosing your DEFINITE OF PURPOSE ( life goals and desires) and you moved on to Napoleon Hill's second principle by creating your mastermind alliance and by surrounding yourself with like minded (positive, success and  goal oriented)  people. So  what actually has just happened is that by walking the path of Napoleon Hill's 17 principles and by already going through principle 1( choosing your life purpose and goals) and moving into Napoleon Hill's principle 2 ( creating a mastermind alliance) and now moving into Napoleon Hill's principle 3 ( applied faith) , by doing so you demonstrate and APPLY THE FAITH in the process of moving through the Napoleon Hill's 17 key principles of success. 

You could not move from principle one and later on to principle 2 and now moving into principle 3 without controlling your attention and directing your ( mind) to move from one principle to the other and in a specific sequence. You could not do so by coincidence, but, by full control over your mind  and your attention and instructing your mind to move from one principle to the next. 

The practical meaning of the above is that YOU APPLY FAITH bout the process and even more important , you YOU APPLY FAITH in Napoleon Hill's 17success principles. Otherwise, you wouldn't waste your time and attention to follow a path that you do not trust / believe. 

When all of the above is true , you actually surrender yourself into the processes and you plant the seed of success. By surrendering and with YOUR APPLID FAITH you can not free your energies and your attention to be busy and totally focused with the details of your path forwards towards achieving your goals. 

By fully APPLYING YOUR FAITH you actually liberate yourself from any: disbelief, fear , hesitation and or distractions. It is easier for you to carry out all the progress processes simply because you have APPLIED YOUR FAITH. This means that YOU FULLY BELIEF that the results will appear, they must appear and you are in full controlled attention in continuing to believe and in keeping to the progress processes. During the progress towards your goals and life desires, every progress is actually a positive feedback that increases your FAITH because you can measure your progress vs where you have started. By increasing your FAITH you will enter the space of APPLYING EVEN MORE FAITH, simply because the " success formula works " and you can see yourself progressing and enjoying the fruits of your success. 

When all the above happiness, you will enter the hypnotic zone of rituals that only you can realise and understand. You will gain the powers to control your mind and direct your attention to manifest everything that you can imagine and hold in your mind while controlling your attention to achieving your desires and applying the faith about: whatever you can hold in your mind , you can hold in your hand".

The above demonstrates the SUPER POWER of controlling your attention towards APPLYING YOUR FAITH and liberating yourself from fear and or doubts. This will allow you to surrender to controlling your attention to doing the work and keeping to the progress process simply because you HAVE THE FAITH and you see the results of progress and growth.