"FEAR #1 - POVERTY"

 SIZE: (48" x 48")

The most dangerous of the six basic fears, the fear of poverty "is sufficient to destroy one's chances of achievement in any undertaking."

Oil stick and house paint on wood panel.  (48" x 48")

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MORE ON THE FEAR OF POVERTY -

Excerpt from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich":

This fear paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills off self-reliance, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes out enthusiasm and makes self-control an impossibility. It takes the charm from one's personality, destroys the possibility of accurate thinking, diverts concentration of effort, it masters persistence, turns the will-power into nothingness, destroys ambition, beclouds the memory and invites failure in every conceivable form; it kills love and assassinates the finer emotions of the heart, discourages friendship and invites disaster in a hundred forms, leads to sleeplessness, misery and unhappiness--and all this despite the obvious truth that we live in a world of over-abundance of everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires, excepting lack of a definite purpose.