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The Mastery of Procrastination: Decision

The Seventh Step toward Riches ACCURATE analysis of over 25,000 men and women who had experienced failure, disclosed the fact that  LACK OF DECISION was near the head of the list of the 30 major causes of FAILURE. This is no mere  statement of a theory-it is a fact. PROCRASTINATION, the opposite of DECISION, is a common enemy which practically every man must  conquer. You will have an opportunity to test your capacity to reach quick and definite DECISIONS when  you finish reading this book, and are ready to begin putting into ACTION the principles which it describes. 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 of  changing these decisions SLOWLY, if, and when they were changed. People who fail to accumulate money,  without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, IF AT ALL, very slowly, a...
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The Crystallization of Desire Into Action: ORGANIZED PLANNING

The Sixth Step toward Riches You have learned that everything man creates or acquires, begins in the form of DESIRE, that desire is taken  on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, into the workshop of the IMAGINATION,  where PLANS for its transition are created and organized. In Chapter Two, you were instructed to take six definite, practical steps, as your first move in translating the  desire for money into its monetary equivalent. One of these steps is the formation of a DEFINITE, practical  plan, or plans, through which this transformation may be made. You will now be instructed how to build plans which will be practical: (a) Ally yourself with a group of as many people as you may need for the creation, and carrying out of your  plan, or plans for the accumulation of money—making use of the "Master Mind" principle described in a later  chapter. (Compliance with this instruction is absolutely essential. Do not neg...
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