About a month ago I saw an ad for a copy of Napoleon Hill’s original work on human potential and success, “The Law of Success”.  This is his original success course, published in 1928. From this came his best selling book, “Think and Grow Rich”. This book is considered the original and still classic work on self-improvement and personal success.
“The Law of Success” is 600 pages and covers the 15 principles of success! As I settled in to read and study the book, the introduction really hit home. Napoleon Hill talks about the power of harmony in our relationships. In a nut shell, he said that without harmony, pretty much everything else in the book could be ‘tossed out the window’. In other words, after studying the lives and successes of the greatest men of his day and identifying what caused them to be successful (the 15 principles), if they were not able to create and keep harmony in their relationships, nothing else mattered!
My first thought? Why waste my time reading the rest of the book if I was not willing to really get a handle on the whole issue of harmony in my relationships - especially the ones with my wife and daughter.
What I saw was that while the three of us got along and worked well together much of the time, we sure didn’t do it all of the time! I’ve always felt OK with concept of ‘most of the time’!! My wife hasn’t - she has always ‘hated’ any disharmony. I thought she was just being a bit too picky on this! Then along comes the grandfather of personal success, Napoleon Hill, and he agrees with my wife!! That caught my attention - I have some major goals I want to achieve this year and here’s Napoleon saying that any disharmony at all throws a major wench into the whole system of creating those successes!
I had to ask myself a key question - “Was I willing to let my ‘need’ to be angry and upset some of the time get in the way of creating the things that really mattered to me?” At that moment, I purposed in my heart to go to work on this! I immediately went to Cheryl and Anna with the same message: we need to eliminate disharmony in our family at all times and for all reasons! Guess what - they were really excited to hear that coming from me!
A month later have we eliminated all disharmony? No, but we have made huge strides, and the minute anyone in the family sees it rearing it’s ugly head, it gets called out and we deal with it immediately! I can tell you that the difference this is already making in our home and in our business has been amazing! We are more on track to accomplish this year’s goals than ever before!
Where in your life can you begin to remove the devastating effects of disharmony? Where can you purpose to bring in harmony?
The good news, it starts with you. Napoleon Hill says that a common trait of all great leaders is the ability to bring harmony into any situation! What a great skill for all of us to master!
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