Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe it can achieve
Desire
The starting point of all achievement
The first step toward riches
When Edwin C. Barnes climbed down from the freight train in Orange, N.J., more that fifty years ago, he may have resembled a tramp, but his thoughts were those of a king!
As he made is way from the railroad tracks to Thomas A. Edison´s office, his mind was at work. He saw himself standing in Edison´s presence. He heard himself asking Mr. Edison for an opportunity to carry out the one consuming obsession of his life, a burning desire to become the business associate of the great inventor.
Barnes´ desire was not hope! It was not a wish! It was a keen, pulsating desire, which transcended everything else. It was definite.
A few years later, Edwin C. Barnes again stood before Edison, in the same office where he first met the inventor. This time his desire had been translated into reality. He was in business with Edison. The dominating dream of his life had become a reality.
Barnes succeeded because he chose a definite goal, place all his energy, all his will power, all his effort, everything, back of that goal.
The man that burned bridges.
Five years passed before the chance he had been seeking made its appearance. To everyone, except himself, he appeared only another cog in the Edison business wheel, but in his own mind, he was the partner of Edison every minute of the time, from the very day he first went to work there.
It is a remarkable illustration of the power of a definite desire. Barnes won his goal. because he wanted to be a business associate of Mr. Edison more than he wanted anything else. He created a plan by which to attain that purpose. But he burned the bridges behind him. He stood by his desire until it became the dominating obsession of his life - and - finally, a fact.
When he went to Orange, he didn´t say to himself, "I will try to induce Edison to give me a job of some sort." He said, "I will see Edison, and put him on notice that I have come to go into business with him."
He did not say, "I will keep my eyes open for another opportunity, in case I fail to get what I want in the Edison organization." He said, "There is but one thing in this world that I am determined to have, and that is a business association with Thomas A. Edison. I will burn all bridges behind me, and stake my entire future on my ability to get what I want."
He left himself no possible way of retreat. He had to win or perish!
That is all there is to the Barnes story of success!
From Think and Grow Rich.......by Napoleon Hill.
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