This document outlines Napoleon Hill's 10 steps to positive thinking: 1. Take possession of your own mind with conviction by applying positive mental attitude and self-motivation. 2. Keep your mind focused on the things you want and avoid focusing on things you don't want. 3. Live by the Golden Rule of treating others the way you want to be treated by helping, smiling, and speaking honestly to others. It then provides brief explanations and suggestions for implementing each of the 10 steps toward positive thinking, health, wealth, and success.

1. Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia
Napoleon Hill’s Key To
Positive Thinking 10
Steps To Health, Wealth, &
Success
Prof: Vathana K.
Pheng
Group 4

2. Take Possession Of Your Own Mind With
Conviction
Step
1
Step 1 is about controlling your own mind with self-motivation by applying
PMA
Learn by doing Take Possession of your own mind with conviction
Say these will help you to believe
 I believe my mind is my own
 I believe I can take possession of my own mind
 I believe I can direct and control my emotion, moods, feelings, intellect,
tendencies, attitude, passions, and habits with the intention developing a
positive metal attitude.
 I will develop a positive metal attitude.

3. Take Possession Of Your Own Mind With
Conviction
Step
1
“Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit
about what any body thinks. Do what you have
to do” Johnny Depp said.

4. Keep Your mind on the things you want
and off the things you don’t want
Step
2
Main Point
 Be yourself and keep controlling of it.
 Focus on things you want and throw the things you don’t want away.
 Learning from your mistakes.
 Don’t just say about something you want, think about it and strongly
believe you will get it one day.

5. Keep Your mind on the things you want and
off the things you don’t want
Step
2
“Yesterday is forever gone. Tomorrow may neve
come. Only today is yours to live in .

6. Live the Golden Rule
Step
3
This step teach us how to live in the Golden Rule which means we
must stand up for each other, be the guardian, protector, and advocate.
3 things you would
like people do for you.
Helping them.
Smiling at them.
Talking to them in friendly and honest way.
3 thing you don’t want
people to do for you.
A lie
A gossip
Don‘t do unto others as you
would not have them do unto you.
Do unto others as you would
have them do unto you.

7. Live the Golden rule
Step
3
The things always happens that you really
believe in and the belief in a thing makes it
happen Frank Lloyd Wright

8. Eliminate All Negative Thoughts By Self-
inspiration
Step4
Most people do not realize that they are thinking negatively unless they
make a conscious effort to inspect their thought, actions, and reactions.
Process of self-analysis is simple. Just
ask yourself “ is this positive or negative.
Negative
 You are feeling sorry for yourself
 You are passing judgment or blaming a
person, situation, or environment.
 Your ego has been hurt or deflated
 You are being selfish about yourself.
Positive
 Thought
 Words
 Actions
 Habits
 Character
Words
Actions
Habits
Character
Destiny

9. Eliminate All Negative Thoughts By Self-
inspiration
Step
4
Self-trust is the first secret of SUCCESS.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other
person or some other time.”
We are the ones who we’ve been waiting for .
We are the change that we seek.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Barak Obama

10. Be Happy! Make Others Happy!
Step
5
To be happy, act happy!
To be happy in our lives and make other people happy is
when we think and act positively.
Positive thinking makes our lives success.
Smile to ourselves and to the world

11. 5 things can make you live happily
• Love yourself
• Do good
• Never hurt others
• Forgive
• Think positively
Be Happy! Make Others Happy!
Step
5

12. Be Happy! Make Others Happy!
Step
5
The only thing you can control for
certain in any situation is your reaction to it.

13. Form a Habit of Tolerance
Step
6
 What Does Tolerance Mean?
 Keep an open mind toward people.
 Look for good in others and learn to like people.
 How To Form A Tolerance Habit.
 Open Minded
 Morality

14. Form a Habit of Tolerance
Step
6
Learn by Doing
The secret of accepting people for what they are is to act as
if you do already. Learn to tolerate others, forgive their mistake,
and help them correct it.

15. Give Yourself Positive Suggestions
Step
7
Your mind is a storehouse of power conscious and
subconscious.
The conscious mind: the quality or stat of self-awareness of
being aware if external object or something within oneself
The subconscious mind: the storage room of everything that is
currently not in the conscious mind.
Those powers can work together in harmony only if you learn
how to affect your mind intelligently.

16. Give Yourself Positive Suggestions
Step
7
 Three forms of control you can exert:
 Suggestions: any stimulus sent through your brain through your five senses:
seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling are the forms of suggestion.
 Self-suggestion: is the process of purposely and give suggestion to yourself
in the form of seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting or smelling
 Auto-suggestion is the transmission and commination of information
stored in the sub-conscious mind back to your conscious mind.

17. Give Yourself Positive Suggestions
Step
7
Learn by Doing
These three suggestions are matters of habit that learn that by
attention. They are what we feed to our mind with.
They help to stay positively:
 Cheer for others success
 Remain our feeling, good or bad
 Provide many solutions to a problem
 Give us many ideas for a new activity

18. Give Yourself Positive Suggestions
Step
7
What your mind can conceive and
believe, you can achieve with PMA.

19. Use Your Power of Prayer
Step
8
Prayer is the process by which you
acknowledge your place within that order,
and begin to prepare yourself to change it.
When you pray, you have faith and
believe in that which you ask for.

20. Use Your Power of Prayer
Step
8
Prayer helps you:
1. Releases Pressure
2. Makes You Have Inside Power
3. Increase Strong Attention
It is so natural for a ma to pray that no theory can prevent him from
doing so.
___James Freeman Clark

21. Set Goals
Step
9
• The starting point for achieving goals is found in the sex letter word DISIRE.
Determine
Evaluate
Set
Identify
Repeat
Each day

22. Study, Think, and Plan Daily
Step
10
1. Study:
• Fired up your PMA and desire to
achieve your
• goals through:
• reading
• studying the self-help books
3. Plan Daily:9
• Write down what you want to do
• decide on your mission or goals
(resolutions, self- motivation, and
ideas)
• review it regularity in order to
manage your time effectively.
2. Thinking:
• To accomplish on your PMA,
you have to spend or divide your
time wisely on thinking about
yourself by:
• taking time to thinking about
goals with PMA
• Inspect attitude, action and
thinking
• Think about past experience
to correct it with PMA