Confidence Formula for Children (aged 9 - 14)

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As it appeared in the guest column you may have read in the November 21 edition of the e-zine, Napoleon Hill Yesterday and Today, the formula for self-confidence adapted for children, follows immediately below.

Confidence Formula for Children (by Kathleen Betts, November 2008)

Adapted from the "Formula for Self–Confidence" from
Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, 1937


1. I know I am able to do the special things I want to do most in my life. I choose to practice doing things that will help me get better at doing what I want to do most. I promise to start now and to keep practicing whenever I can.

2. I know that the things I think about most will become real things in my life. I will spend 10 minutes every day just thinking about what I want to do most and what I want to be. I will close my eyes and make a clear picture in my imagination, of myself doing the special thing I want to do most.

3. I can feel more confident by telling myself over and over that I believe in myself and that I know I can, so that the things I want most to have and to do will become real things in my life. Each morning when I wake up and each night before I sleep, I will say out loud “I know I can” while I think about what I want most to do and to have.

4. I have written down the words and drawn a picture, telling and showing exactly what I want to do most and what I want to have most. I will always keep trying until what I want to have and to be become real things in my life.

5. I know that being and having what I want most, will only last a long time if I am sure to always be honest and fair with others. I will always tell the truth and I will always do things that will be helpful to others too, when I am working to get the things that I want. I will always think about how what I do will matter to and will affect others, before I do it. That way I will be like a magnet for good things and good people who will help me find ways to do what I want to do most. Others are fair to me and helpful to me, because I am fair and helpful to others. I will always do my best to be caring, content, satisfied, giving and helpful toward others because I know that others will be good to me and that I will have success, when I think good things about others and myself, when I do good things for others and myself, and when I am loving toward others and myself. Others will believe in me, because I will believe in others and in myself.

I will sign my name to this formula, I will read it out loud every day until I can remember it and I will keep repeating it to myself out loud every day so that I get ideas and choose to do things that will help me to achieve what I want most, so that I can be the person I made in the pictures on paper and in my imagination.


Name: _____________________ Signature: __________________________



The Children’s Formula for Self-Confidence by Kathleen Betts has been adapted from Napoleon Hill’s Formula for Self Confidence with the consent and approval of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. For more information on the work of Napoleon Hill, please visit the website at http://www.naphill.org/

I hope this is a helpful tool to parents who are working together with their children to optimize potential and opportunity. Kids may like to customize the formula even more to name a particular goal they are working toward instead of saying generics like "thing(s) I want most" and "special thing(s)."

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Ardently,

Kathleen