13VISUALIZATION

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

—BLAISE PASCAL

VISUALIZATION IS ONE of the most powerful processes available to us and one of the most useful in realizing the success that we desire in life. As Ella Wheeler Wilcox so aptly stated:

 

The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance,Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb,Essential to thy soul and thy existence—Live worthy of it—call, and it shall come.

As executive director of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, I have my offices on the campus of the University of Virginia-Wise. One day a visitor asked me, “How do you put up with that building noise?” I had taught myself not to hear the construction noises from next door, where a 116-student dormitory was being constructed. ...

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