"Think And Grow Rich", by Napoleon Hill

Nice, quick and spicy : “Decision”

Is there really much to stay? I’m sorry but I’m a procrastinator. I say I’m going to do something in 10 minutes and if 11 minutes pass and I have not gotten up I’m going to claim I’m too late and take an extra hour before I start to think of how much more time I need to delay what I want to do even longer until it eventually becomes too far into the time zone where I feel as if I have gone too far to make a comeback. Then what? I end up never doing it. Lowkey, procrastination is taking God’s time for granted as you believe the time He gave you to complete a task is not the time you deem fit to do so. You then believe you deserve to dictate when you do anything?

In the world of business, what does the men and women who have accumulated fortunes have in common?

• The habit of reaching decisions promptly, and of changing these decisions slowly, if, and when they were changed.

Tips On Making Your OWN Decisions:

• Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth.

• 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.

• Genuine wisdom is usually conspicuous through modesty and silence.

• Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.

• Deeds, and not words, are what count most

Some vocab:

• impel: drive, force or urge someone to do something.

• fervent: having or displaying a passionate intensity.

• condign: ( of punishment or retribution) appropriate to the crime or wrongdoing; fitting and deserved.

• adjourn: break off (a meeting, legal case or game) with the intention of resuming it later.

• epithet: an adjective or phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.

  Later.