Enthusiasm: Three Feet From Gold
Enthusiasm: Three Feet From Gold
Enthusiasm: Three Feet From Gold
Module 8
Enthusiasm
Reading Assignments
• Review pages 128-134 of Three Feet From Gold
• Read any additional selections your coach recommends:
Primer S e s s i o n O b j e c t i v e s M a s t e r S e s s i o n O b j e ctives
In this session you will learn to: In this session you will learn to:
• Know the difference between being interested & • Spark your enthusiasm through looking outside of
being committed. yourself.
• Decide when to make your best decisions—when • Focus on the “can” do.
you’re at your peaks of enthusiasm, not your valleys. • Accept only what you desire.
• Get to the bottom of what makes you • Channel infinite enthusiasm from the universe.
(personally) quit. • Conceive, Believe, & Achieve.
Three Feet from Gold
Concept Summaries
Introduction
You’ll remember that Greg met with frustration throughout Three Feet from
Gold, but most of it was in the beginning. That wasn’t because his greatest
setbacks came at the beginning, but rather because he hadn’t yet discovered
the passion and enthusiasm he needed to break through barriers and overcome
setbacks.
Once he had discovered his own Success Equation and Definite Major Pur-
pose—that he wanted to capture what he was learning from the great mentors
he was meeting and share it—the setbacks and roadblocks didn’t seem so big.
When the light shone through the clouds on his flight with Julie Krone and Rich-
ard Cohn, he had finally tapped into his true source of enthusiasm. He heard the
universe tell him what, deep down, he had always known.
Enthusiasm Defined
Enthusiasm is the vital force with which you recharge your body and develop
a dynamic personality. Some people are blessed with natural enthusiasm, while
others must acquire it.
Enthusiasm exists in your core. You always have the potential to draw it out, but
sometimes it gets buried beneath hundreds of feet of stone. You can “drill” for
Enthusiasm by doing the work or rendering the service that you truly love and
enjoy.
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Once you tap into your true source of Enthusiasm, it can last forever—if you
let it. The key is to keep your “pipeline” open by always staying close to your
Definite Major Purpose.
When we talk about the word Enthusiasm in this program, we are referring to
an ongoing pulse of energy and motivation in your life. The kind of enthusiasm
we’re talking about is hard to stop. You can’t turn it on or off at will, but you can
control it.
You can feel Enthusiasm for a principle, for a cause, for an event, or for a pur-
pose. As Napoleon Hill said, “No one is born with enthusiasm. It is developed by
the correct combination of interest, knowledge, and belief.”
While we can talk about many theories dealing with the concept, it’s best for you
to discover your own personal wellspring of Enthusiasm. Only you can practice
and exercise your ability to channel Enthusiasm. No one can create it for you.
The only magical way to tap into your Enthusiasm is through your own Definite
Major Purpose.
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If your thoughts and your actions and your words harmonize, you are bound to
influence those with whom you come in contact, more or less toward your way
of thinking.”
When you have congruency, clarity, and certainty, you have the ability to spark
Enthusiasm in other people. That’s because Enthusiasm is contagious. When
you are connected with your Definite Major Purpose, have a certainty of one day
achieving it, and have the clarity with which to make your decisions, you will
attract people who share your vision. As you attract those people, you will feel
their Enthusiasm feed into your own. As you project more Enthusiasm, they will
feel the same.
Under these conditions you can create ideas beyond your education or experi-
ence—ideas and solutions that you would not have been capable of creating if
you had been acting alone.
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Not only that but it also adds to the attractiveness of your personality. It inspires
self-confidence. Employees who think, speak and act enthusiastically are the
ones who are happy in their work. They radiate a wholesome influence that
spreads to those around them, and their co-workers take on a part of the enthu-
siastic person’s mental attitude.
This is why an employee with a Positive Mental Attitude is worth more than one
with a negative mental attitude. Because of that, Enthusiasm is probably the
surest way to a better job or promotion.
• Poverty
• Physical illness
• Business failure
• Loss of love
• Family disputes
• Lack of education
• Unfriendly criticism
• Old age
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• Worry
• Doubt
• Fear
• Association with negative people
If you experience any of these influences in your life, take the time to re-connect
with your Definite Major Purpose. All of these influences can be serious setbacks,
but they aren’t impossible to overcome. As long as you stay connected to your
Definite Major Purpose, your wellspring of Enthusiasm doesn’t have to run dry.
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____ Stickability
____ Identify when You’re Up, When You’re Down
____ What Makes You Quit?
____ Counsel, Not Opinions
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Primer Session
Exercises
S TICK ABILITY
Don Green told Greg: “Stickability is the difference between being interested and being committed.”
Think back on the times in your life when you thought you were committed, but were really only
interested. While there’s nothing wrong with only being interested in certain goals at certain times (it’s
how we hone in what we really want and our best path to get there) how is your Definite Major
Purpose different? Describe the times in your life when you can honestly say you had stickability on
the 10 level. Describe what made you committed versus merely interested:
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Primer Session
Exercises
Could you have made the decision at another time—in advance? What major decisions are you faced
with today? Which ones should be made when you are at your enthusiastic best?
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Primer Session
Exercises
Start each day with an expression of gratitude for all the adversities, defeats, and failures you have
experienced in the past. Then, using the space below, analyze five of your adversities, failures and/or
defeats and determine the causes for them. Rate your level of stickability with each one (from 1 to 10
with 10 being the most stickable):
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Primer Session
Exercises
Look to people who have done what you want to do—who are experts in their industry. List at least
seven of them below and write down how you could approach them to counsel you about your
Definite Major Purpose:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
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Master Session
Exercises
S TICK ABILITY
Don Green told Greg: “Stickability is the difference between being interested and being committed.”
Think back on the times in your life when you thought you were committed, but were really only
interested. While there’s nothing wrong with only being interested in certain goals at certain times (it’s
how we hone in what we really want and our best path to get there) how is your Definite Major
Purpose different? Describe the times in your life when you can honestly say you had stickability on
the 10 level. Describe what made you committed versus merely interested:
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Master Session
Exercises
S PA R K ENTHUSIASM
T H R O U G H OTHER PEOPLE
List five people with whom you live or work. Go out of your way daily to comment enthusiastically on
their good qualities. Do not mention their negative qualities. Then observe the results in each relation-
ship, in the rapport you have, and the enthusiasm it sparks within you:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
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Master Session
Exercises
F O C U S ON THE CAN DO
List the portions of your Definite Major Purpose (any of the three parts—Lifetime, 10-Year, or 1-Year)
that are the easiest—the ones you can easily see yourself doing, the “can do” portions:
Now list the portions of your Definite Major Purpose (any of the three parts—Lifetime, 10-Year, or
1-Year) that are the most difficult—the ones you would consider the “cannot do” portions:
How can you leverage the “can do” portions to help you take on the “cannot do” tasks?
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ACCEPT ONLY
W H AT YOU DESIRE
Mahatma Gandhi proved to be more powerful than the great British military forces by the simple
method of passive resistance—accepting only what he desired. For your Lifetime
Definite Major Purpose, list five things that make you desire that purpose above all else:
Now for your 10-Year Definite Major Purpose, list five things that make you desire that purpose above
all else:
Now for your 1-Year Definite Major Purpose, list five things that make you desire that purpose above
all else:
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Master Session
Exercises
C O N C EIVE, BELIEVE,
ACHIEVE
Write out the following sentence and paste it in a prominent place where you work and on your mirror
at home. WHATEVER THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE AND BELIEVE, THE MIND CAN ACHIEVE.
Now list one major accomplishment you can conceive of doing, believe you can do, and know you shall
achieve below.
I conceive that I can:
I shall achieve:
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C O N C EIVE, BELIEVE,
ACHIEVE
Now list another major accomplishment you can conceive of doing, believe you can do, and know you
shall achieve below:
I conceive that I can:
I shall achieve:
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C O N C EIVE, BELIEVE,
ACHIEVE
Now list another major accomplishment you can conceive of doing, believe you can do, and know you
shall achieve below:
I conceive that I can:
I shall achieve:
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I N F I N I T E INTELLIGENCE,
I N F I N I TE ENTHUSIASM
In this exercise, express gratitude daily for being given the right to completely control your mind. Ask
the higher power you believe in/the universe for guidance so that you may use this profound gift wisely
in all your thoughts and acts. Whether you are religious or not, create your own “prayer” that
recognizes the abundance in the universe, that there is Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Enthusiasm.
Use your “prayer” to focus your mind on your Definite Major Purpose:
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T HE KNOWING
Richard Cohn told Greg, “There is a difference between believing in something and knowing it.” Con-
sider this bit of wisdom in your own life. Have you ever simply known something deep down? Use the
space below to write three things you’ve always known about your destiny, your future, your ultimate
hopes and desires:
#1
#2
#3
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