Decision

The Mastery of Procrastination

The 7th Step Towards Riches.

Welcome to the next step to financial freedom taken from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. 

Decision

The decision is a choice or judgment that you make after thinking about possibilities. In psychology decision making is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options. Decision making is the process of identifying and choosing alternatives based on the values, preferences, and beliefs of the decision-maker. 

    Accurate analysis of over the twenty-five thousand men and women who have experienced failure in their lives have admitted that lack of decision-making was the main cause of their failures. This is no mere statement of a theory, this is fact.

      Procrastination, the opposite of decision, is a common enemy that practically every man must conquer. 

     One of Henry Ford's most outstanding qualities is his habit of reaching decisions quickly and definitely, and changing them slowly. The quality is so pronounced in Mr. Ford, that it gave him the reputation of being obstinate. It was the quality that prompted Mr. Ford continues to manufacture his famous Model T (Worlds ugliest car), when all of his advisors, and many of the purchasers of the car, were urging him to change it.

     Opinions are the cheapest commodities on the earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by opinions when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money. 

     If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

You have a brain and a mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions. 

     Keep in mind the fact that every person with whom you associate is, like yourself, seeking the opportunity to accumulate money. If you talk about your plans too freely, you may be surprised when you learn some other person has beaten you to your goal by putting into action ahead of you, that plan of which you talked unwisely. 

Work Hard in Silence; Let your Success Make Noise.

     Those who reach a decision promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it. The leaders in every walk of life decide quickly, and firmly. That is the major reason why they are leaders.

     Definiteness of decision always requires courage, sometimes very great courage. The fifty-six men who signed the declaration fo Independence staked their lives on the decision to affix their signature to that document. The person who reaches a definite decision to procedure the particular job, and make life pay the price he asks, does not stake his life on that decision; he stakes his economic freedom. Financial independence, riches, desirable business and professional position are not within reach of the person who neglects or refuses to expect, plan, and demand these things. The person who desires riches in the same spirit that Samuel Adams desired freedom for the colonies is sure to accumulate wealth. 

That's all about Decision from Think and Grow Rich.

Thank You.