Foreword / by Sir John Templeton -- Introduction / by James Ellison -- Step 1: learning the laws of life -- Step 2: using what you have -- Step 3: helping yourself by helping others -- Step 4: putting first things first -- Step 5: achieving happiness by what you do -- Step 6: finding the positive in every negative -- Step 7: investing yourself in your work -- Step 8: creating your own luck -- Step 9: utilizing two principles of success -- Step 10: making time your servant -- Step 11: giving the extra ounce -- Step 12: conserving your resources to best advantage -- Step 13: progressing onwards and upwards -- Step 14: controlling your thoughts for effective action -- Step 15: loving as the essential ingredient -- Step 16: maximizing the power of your faith -- Step 17: receiving strength through prayer -- Step 18: giving as a way of life -- Step 19: winning through humility -- Step 20 discovering new frontiers -- Step 21: seeking solutions -- Summing up the Templeton plan.;Sir John Templeton (1912-2008), the Wall Street legend who has been described as "arguably the greatest global stock picker of the twentieth century," clearly knew what it took to be successful. The most important thing, he observed, was to have strong convictions that guided your life-this was the common denominator he saw in all successful people and enterprises. Fortunately for us, he was eager to share his own blueprint for personal success and happiness with the rest of the world. In The Templeton Plan, he laid out the twenty-one guiding principles by which he governed both hi.