The 17 chapters in this new course are based on classic presentations that reveal principles that, once applied, lead to success and life achievement.

Once you have defined your definition of purpose, the other 16 principles will help you to reach goals that only a very small group of people will ever achieve. The choice is yours, and the time is now. This course takes you to the original source. What you are about to hear is the foundation of the natural, built-in success system in each of us.

Napoleon Hill is and has been the most quoted expert on the science of success. Fortune 500 CEOs, political leaders, entertainers, and millions around the word give credit to Think and Grow Rich as the starting point for their successes. One of those inspired was the Reverend Jack Boland who will lead us through these principles in this course. Jack Boland was a well-known and much beloved Unity minister and leader of the Unity movement. His church in Detroit was one of the first mega churches. He presented a series of lectures based on the 17 principles developed by Napoleon Hill and serves as a great guide for this master course. Prior to entering the ministry, Mr. Boland pursued a successful career in sales management and marketing, directing the sales, advertising, and public relations of a large corporation considered to be the leader in its field. In his business career, he achieved an identity as a public speaker on the national level. Mr. Boland's business life also included an active involvement with real estate development and investment. An important and active facet of his ministry was counseling with executives, showing them how to solve specific business problems through the application of success principles.

Napoleon Hill began his writing career at age 13 as a "mountain reporter" for small-town newspapers and went on to become America's most beloved motivational author. His work stands as a monument to individual achievement and is the cornerstone of modern motivation. His most famous work, Think and Grow Rich, is one of the best-selling books of all time. Hill established the Foundation as a nonprofit educational institution whose mission is to perpetuate his philosophy of leadership, self-motivation, and individual achievement.

W. Clement Stone, one of the most prominent leaders in personal development, started selling papers as a boy on the streets of Chicago to becoming the founder of one of the largest multibillion-dollar insurance companies of his day. He also coauthored a book with Napoleon Hill that became one of the best-selling books of all time, Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude.