Think and Grow Rich test: Have you learned anything of value today?

November 10, 2009 by JD · 2 Comments
Filed under: Books, Self-Improvement, Success and Failure

My answers to the Think and Grow Rich Self-Assessment Test

Recently, I was reminded of the self-assessment test in Napoleon Hill’s best-selling book, Think and Grow Rich.

There are fifty-four questions in that test, and I’m going to be giving my answers and thoughts on one or two of them as close to daily as I can manage. I may miss a day here or there, but I’m going to follow through until I reach the end of the test.

I’ve started the series of posts with:

Think and Grow Rich self-assessment test

Question Number 28. Have you learned anything of value today?

I try to learn something of value every day. Most days, I succeed; a few, I don’t.

Today, I learned the value of going back to sleep when you’re too tired to do your best work.

I woke up about 2:00 am and was ready to go, but just couldn’t quite get into the swing of things. About 4:00 am, I decided to go back to bed and try again when I was really awake and ready to go.

It worked.

I’ve gotten more done in the last hour than I would have achieved in several hours, if I had not gone back to bed.

I’m not one of those people who can just grind out work. To do my best – and that’s what I always strive to do, I need to feel like doing it.

I learned something valuable yesterday, too.

I spent the whole day out and about in Murphy, NC talking to a variety of business owners and managers. We discussed the state of the economy, how their business was doing, the Murphy Gold marketing system I’m building, and other topics of interest.

One of the local business owners had already found Murphy Gold and Murphy Connections and we had a very interesting, brief discussion about what I was doing and how it could help promote not only locally-owned, small businesses, but the town, itself.

Later, I talked to the Mayor of Murphy and the Chairman of the Cherokee County, NC Commissioners and asked them a couple of questions. Based on their positive responses, I’m going to ask the members of the Murphy Town Council and all the County Commissioners the same two questions and I’ll be publishing their responses on Murphy Gold and Murphy Connections.

It’s amazing what you can learn when you just take the time to ask a couple of simple questions.

What about you?

Have you learned anything of value today?

All the best,

Tags: Napoleon Hill, self-assessment, test, Think and Grow Rich

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-08

November 8, 2009 by JD · Comments Off
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