In this video, I explain one of the most important traits of successful people and how you can start to implement it.
In Think and Grow Rich, author Napoleon Hill found that out of all the traits of successful people, the one trait each and every millionaire shared was decisiveness. Specifically, making their minds up quickly and changing their minds slowly, if ever at all.
Why, you ask? Isn’t making your mind up too quickly dangerous? Sure. You will make mistakes and have failures, but what’s much more crippling is to sit in indecision, or change your mind over and over. You can’t make progress, learn and get data, and get results if you’re not taking action or not committing to your decisions.
You NEED to fail and screw up to grow in anything. Get used to it. You just keep course correcting your way to success. But you’ve got nothing to course correct if you’re waiting in fear and overanalysis at the starting line.
Here are the excerpts I read in the video from Think and Grow Rich:
“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, and of changing these decisions quickly and often.”
“The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs, are, generally, easily influenced by the “opinions” of others. They permit the newspapers and the “gossiping” neighbors to do their “thinking” for them. “Opinions” are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. 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.”
Along with everything else I talk about in the video, this last part is about learning to trust yourself more, your gut more, and being ok with people not validating and disapproving of your decisions.
Enjoy the video!
Resources:
“Think & Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hil
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