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Think And Grow Rich
Step Seven Decision

In this chapter Napoleon Hill says that the analysis of several hundred people, who had accumulated fortunes, well beyond the million-dollar mark, disclosed the fact that every one of them had the habit of reaching decisions promptly, and changing these decisions slowly. If and when they were ever changed at all.


People who fail to accumulate money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.

Another Napoleon, Bonaparte, says this,

Those who fail to make conscious choices may as well not have any free will, for they squander the gift of decisiveness.

The successful and happy human being is the one in whom choice is intentional and purposeful. Decision produces results. It can, also be said that the failure to decide is, in itself, a decision, a decision to let your life be governed by event and circumstance.

Decision can be called choice by design.

Lack of decisiveness is choice by default. It is also a choice. It is the decision to choose unhappiness, mediocrity and commonality.

As William James said,

Those who make decisions are the masters of their fate. Those who don't are the servants of fate.

Those who decide to become, to enact and to have, according to their own design, are assisted by the laws of creation. There is enormous power unleashed by a simple decision.

Ralph Waldo Emerson stated that,

In the free self help books review of Think and Grow Rich, we see that Napoleon Hill stated,

Unfortunately, many people miss the importance of this phrase, and treat their decisions like men treat a TV remote control, constantly changing from one expectation to another.

Step Six Organised Planning

Step Eight Persistence