17 SUCCESS PRINCIPLES YOU NEED TO KNOW

17 Success principles. The authors have for many years given lectures, instructed classes, and conducted a correspondence course on the 17 success principles. The title of the course: PMA, The Science of Success. These 17 principles are: 

1. A Positive Mental Attitude        

2. Definiteness of purpose

3. Going the extra mile

4. Accurate thinking

5. Self-discipline

6. The master mind

7. Applied faith

8. A pleasing personality

9. Personal initiative

10. Enthusiasm 

11. Controlled attention

12. Teamwork

13. Learning from defeat

14. Creative vision

15. Budgeting time and money

 16. Maintaining sound physical and mental health

 17. Using cosmic habit force  (universal law) 

These 17 success principles are no creation of the authors. They were extracted from the lifetime experiences of hundreds of the most successful persons our nation has known during the past century. 

As long as you live, from this day forward, you can analyze your every success and every failure — that is, if you imprint these 17 principles indelibly in your memory. 

You may develop and maintain a permanent Positive Mental Attitude by making it your responsibility to adopt and apply these 17 principles in your daily living. 

There is no other known method by which you may keep your mind positive. 

Analyze yourself courageously, now, and learn which of these 17 principles you have been using and which of them you have been neglecting. 

In the future analyze both your successes and your allures, using the 17 principles as a measuring device, and very soon you will be able to lay your finger on what has been holding you back. 

If you have PMA and don't succeed, then what? If you use PMA and don't succeed, it may be because you are not using each of the principles that are necessary in the combination for success to attain your specific goal. 

You may wish to check the stories of S. B. Fuller, Tom Dempsey, Henry J. Kaiser, the woodcutter, Al Allen, and Henry Ford, to recognize which of the 17 success principles each person applied or neglected to apply. You might analyze someone you know who is a has-been in real life. 
(from: Success through positive mental attitude writen by Napoleon Hill)