Decision

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Anyone that has ever studied any of Napoleon Hill's work knows how important decision is. Very, very important subject.

Here's one of the biggest challenges you face in regards to the principle of decision. It sounds like this. I'm going to do this as soon as I get the money to do this.

As soon as the kids finish school. I'm going to do this as soon as I get the promotion. One idea after another, the decision is not executed.

Why is it that approximately 90 or 97% of the population stay there? Well, Hill found out through a survey of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure. They experienced it because of lack of decision. That was the major cause of their failure.

They weren't making the decision because they couldn't see how it was going to happen. The people that were making the decisions, they didn't see how it was going to happen either. They just knew it would.

You know, anyone that has ever studied any of Napoleon Hill's work knows how important decision is. He wrote an entire chapter on decision and think and grow rich. Decision was one of the principles of success.

Very, very important subject. A lot of people don't understand it. We don't teach it in school.

You go right through our educational system without ever learning how to make a decision. And strangely enough, parents wanting to protect their children make their decisions for them, sometimes right into adulthood. So the person never learns how to make a decision.

Now, in the very first page of the decision chapter, napoleon Hill pointed out very clearly that successful people all make decisions very fast, change them very slow, even when they change them at all. And he pointed out that people that have trouble with success make decisions very slow and then change them fast. And often.

There's something about decision we should understand, and I think it's brought right to the surface in the story of Henry Ford and his famous V eight engine. You see, when Ford decided that he was going to produce his famous V eight engine, he chose to build the engine, the whole eight cylinders in one block. He called all his engineers, and he told them that he wanted them to lay out a plan on how this could be done.

Write it all out for him. So the engineers did that. They come back, and they told him to a man, they all complete agreement.

It was impossible. This could not be done. I love Ford's response.

He said do it anyway. Now, think of that. Here's a group of engineers, they've laid out the plan on putting eight cylinders in one block.

They said it was impossible. It couldn't be done. And Ford said, do it anyway.

Now, why would he say that? Now, as the story goes, they went away and they worked on it, and they come back. Same conclusion. It couldn't be done.

He said do it anyway. Now, think about this for a moment. The engineers were employed by Ford.

He was the one that was signing the checks. He said do it anyway. Are they going to argue with the man? So it went away and they keep working on it.

But you know and I know that he did put the eight cylinders in one block. You see, the only prerequisite to making a decision is, do you want to? As you study and as you get into all of Napoleon Hill's work, you will know that all these great achievers like Edison, like Ford, they built the image of what they wanted. In their mind, they became totally relaxed.

They got that image very clear in their mind. What they were really doing was turning it over to infinite intelligence. And infinite intelligence then would feed the answers back to them.

Now, they may not have been able to articulate exactly what was happening. We're going way back 50, 75 years today. We know that.

At least some of us know it. Not everyone knows it. When you go to make a decision, think of Ford and his eight cylinders in one block.

The wise ones couldn't be done. All the engineers couldn't be done. He said do it anyway.

You don't have to know how to make it happen. You just have to know you're going to make it happen. So when you make a decision, bang.

That's it, and there's no going back. You don't change the decision. You may change the plan, which we'll talk about later, but not the decision.

Be decisive. Make your decisions fast. Change them very slow.

If and when you change them at all. That is what Napoleon Hill found all the successful people did. You are on a program of success.

You do it, too. The great decisions which served as the foundation of civilization were reached by assuming great risks, which often meant the possibility of death. Socrates decision to drink the cup of poison rather than compromise his personal belief was a decision of courage.

It turned time ahead a thousand years and gave to people then unborn the right to freedom of thought and of speech. Get out your notebook. Write decision in capitals at the top of the page.

And then I'm going to use this principle of decision in the following way. And then finish that sentence in your notebook. Don't overthink it.

Just tune into your own powerful intuition and court on paper what comes to you. Do it now.