The First 3 Things to Do When You Have No Money and No Plan — Napoleon Hill

There is a specific kind of person this video was made for. Not the person refining an existing trajectory. Not the person three years into the building, optimizing. The person who is at the beginning. Genuinely at the beginning. With no money to speak of, no plan that has any claim to being organized, and the clarifying, sometimes terrifying awareness of someone who knows exactly where they are and has not yet found a way to know where they are going. I knew this person. I was this person. I was born in 1883 in a one-room log cabin in the Virginia mountains. My mother died before I was ten. My family had no resources, no connections, no infrastructure. I worked in the coal mines at thirteen — not to build character, but because the family needed the money and there was no other option. I had nothing the building of the extraordinary life is supposed to require before it can begin. No money. No plan. The literal, Virginia-mountains-in-1883 version of no money and no plan. The work works. The starting point is not the determining factor. In this episode — the most foundational in this series — I give you the three specific things that come first. The ones that require nothing to begin. The ones every one of the five hundred extraordinary lives I studied began from before any of the more sophisticated principles were in place.