HIGHLAND, UT | 19 May 2008 | As food prices have recently soared, farmers have begun to plant wheat and rice. Reports are now coming in that by the end of the year the world will see an abundance of those items. Yahoo! News reported there could be as much as “82.6 million metric tons, the largest in six years.” This comes on the heels of reports that natural disasters around the globe, most notably the cyclone that hit Myanmar last week, and farmers switching to fuel-based crops for ethanol which have limited food supplies and raised prices.

Key Points

• Faith, contrary to the common perception of this concept, is not to “hope really hard. Rather, it is the moving force within each individual. everything a person does is because he gets a vision of what his actions will create. If he didn’t believe he could create it, he would not act. He could not act; he wouldn’t know what to do.
• Farmers have faith in growing wheat and rice this year as evidenced by their having planted it.
• Self-interest, another commonly confused concept, is the awareness that certain actions will benefit the actor. Here, it is the farmer’s self-interest to plant wheat or rice and capitalize on the soaring prices.

Conclusion

One of the best ways an individual may discover his true self-interest is to clearly define his definite chief aim (DCA). Napoleon Hill directs:

There is some one thing that you can do better than anyone else in the world could do it. Search until you find out what this particular line of endeavor is, make it the object of your definite chief aimand then organize all of your forces and attack it with the belief that you are going to win. In your search for the work for which you are best fitted, it will be well if you bear in mind the fact that you will most likely attain the greatest success by finding out what work you like best, for it is a well known fact that a man generally best succeeds in the particular line of endeavor into which he can throw his whole heart and soul.

Action Items

1. Explore your own self-interest by establishing your current definite chief aim.
2. Act now. Put the elements into motion that help you achieve that aim.

MRFC Principles: (2, 4)

Resources

Charles Abbott, “U.S. sees record world food crops easing crisis,” Yahoo News. May 9, 2008.

Napoleon Hill, The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons. The Ralston University Press, 1928. Lesson Two, A Definite Chief Aim, p. 53, (Facsimile Edition, pub. by Wilshire Book Co. 2000).