DECISIONS

This chronicle is about the famous personal development guru - Napoleon Hill. Born to a poor family, he fought his way out of his backwoods Virginia town with a burning desire to be successful. He was always searching for ways to improve himself and was involved in numerous ventures, including managing a coalmine, practicing law, and becoming a business journalist.

His big break came at a meeting with Andrew Carnegie, the "Steel King". Carnegie asked Hill if he would take up the challenge of devoting 20 years of his life in order to prepare a formula of success for helping others to become successful. Carnegie would provide him with letters of reference to meet hundreds of successful people in the likes of Woodrow Wilson, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Theodore Roosevelt and John D. Rockefeller.

Hill chose to take up the challenge in less than 60 seconds. Later he came to know that Carnegie had given him only 60 seconds to make up his mind, failing which he would have lost his chance of undertaking the important assignment. After 20 years of dedicated research, Hill compiled the best seller, Think and Grow Rich, in 1937. Imagine, history would have been different if Hill had procrastinated.

Effective people make up their mind fast and are slow at changing their mind once they make their decision. Others tend to be slow at making up their mind and quick to change after the decision is made. In fact, most people do not make their own decisions, because their decisions are made for them or influenced by others. To be better at taking decisions is not just about choices, but more importantly it is about making timely choices.

That timing is crucial to decisions is a fact we find
Let’s strive to BE BETTER at making up our minds

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Pravin-da