A year ago my partner and I went to a seminar in Dallas that pertained to personal development and our home business. One evening a group of us went to dinner at an excellent seafood restaurant. There were about twelve of us and we sat at a long table. Conversation was flowing all around me. As I was conversing with several of the people sitting to my right, I would catch bits and pieces of the conversation to my left. One piece of their conversation that caught my attention was the word sex. They were saying that there was a chapter on sex in the book “Think and Grow Rich!.” Sex? In “Think and Grow Rich,” no way!

When my partner first entered into the network marketing industry and started his home business, the company he joined was involved in selling personal development products. Never being a true believer of the self-help, self-awareness genre, I tended to dismiss the whole self-improvement mindset. So when my partner bought two copies of Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” one for me and one for him, I was a little put off by the fact that he expected me to read it. Now don’t get me wrong, I am an avid reader, but I love to read literary fiction, some history, biography and an occasional fanatasy. Reading books like “Think and Grow Rich” just wasn’t my cup of tea. But my partner’s enthusiasm about the book made me feel that I should at least give it a try. And try I did, it felt like torture, like being back in college having to read those long boring required reading material. I made it through the first 3 chapters but was unable to focus and comprehend on what it was exactly that I was reading and how any of it pertained to my current life. I put the book aside and promptly proceeded to forget about it. That is until eighteen months later when I’m sitting there in that restaurant scouring my memory of that book and wondering why in the world there would be a chapter on sex in a book about wealth creation and personal achievement.

When I returned home from Dallas, I went to my bookshelf and dusted off my copy of “Think and Grow Rich!.” I scanned the content index and found that chapter eleven was entitled “The Mystery of Sex Transmutation: The Tenth Step Towards Riches.” I promptly started to read that chapter and you know what? I was hooked. That chapter was genuis. I now wanted to read the whole book from the beginning and proceeded to do so over the course of two days. What truly amazed me the most was the realization of just how far I had come on my journey of personal growth and wealth creation. During the past eighteen months of working with my partner in our home business, we had been, unknown to me, following and implementing the thirteen steps towards riches as outlined in Napoleon Hill’s book. Concepts I had originally thought had no relevance to me, turned out to be concepts that I believed in and had actually been living.