Bob Shoaf, Alamogordo, NM

CHAPTER 8 DECISION: THE MASTERY OF PROCRASTINATION
The Seventh Step toward Riches
Napoleon Hill suggests there is accurate data to show a lack of decision or procrastination to be one of the main reasons men and women are not successful.
He suggests successful people make decisions promptly and change those decisions slowly, if at all.
If we want to excel in a specific area, we must find a mastermind group.  For us and our home business, this would be Mentoring For Free.  To internalize what Michael and others are teaching, we need to remember that we have two ears and one mouth.  We need to use them in that same ratio.  We can do this most effectively by:
"TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTENDED TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT."
When our country was being formed, there were many examples of men who made decisions by assuming great risk.  These decisions often meant the possibility of death.  The fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence risked death from the British.
John Hancock and Samuel Adams called a meeting of the Provincial Council to have all British solders removed from Boston.  These two men showed their ability to make definite decisions, even in the face of grave danger.  The strength of a mastermind group was demonstrated.
The result of this mastermind group was the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.  These men staked their lives on the decision to sign this document.  Fortunately for us today, when we reach a definite decision we will probably not stake our life on that decision, but we will be staking our economic freedom on the decision.
So with the spirit that Samuel Adams demonstrated we must also demonstrate by expecting, planning and demanding outcomes that will lead to our becoming a successful leader of people.
As long as I stay focused on the Mentoring For Free mastermind group, procrastination will be defeated.
Thanks to all who contribute to this mastermind group.
Bob Shoaf

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Frank LooSer (Sarge) Nashville TN

Decision,
How do you spell “indecision”? P-R-O-C-R-A-S-T-I-N-A-T-I-O-N!  And what is Procrastination? 
Putting off until tomorrow what can be done today. All too often I get the feeling that I don’t
want to do something right now.  Most of the time it’s because I feel like I don’t have time to
do what I need to do so I put it off rather than get started, yet at the same time, by putting
it off nothing important got accomplished because I did something less important that was quick
and easy which did not carry me to the next step in the direction I needed to go to achieve my
goal. I bet many people have this problem but don’t realize it?
The key to overcoming indecision was touched on in the 7th chapter of Think and Grow Rich in
organized planning.  Whether we do something or not we have made a decision either way.  This
is about making the best decisions to carry us forward to reaching our goals.  If we have an
organized plan we now have a step by step outline of what to do next, eliminating the overwhelming
feeling of not knowing what to do next. 
It’s like writing a song, only the challenge is being able to decide on the big picture and where
to strategically place the notes on the staff lines.  The first step is to use our imagination to hear
the melody line then we write the notes in such an arrangement that anyone will be able to play
our song. 
To sum it up lets understand that it’s not about indecision it’s about the best decision.  Which
decisions do we need to make on a day to day basis to move us closer to our Network Marketing
goals? Just by writing this lesson is helping me to understand what I need to do to reach the next
step in my Network Marketing business.  The Mentoring For Free System that Michael Dlouhy invented
has eliminated the challenge we all faced in being able to see the big picture. It eliminated the
challenge of having to take our valuable time to reinvent the wheel.  Michael invented a proven
duplicable system whereby anyone can build their Network Marketing organization and then use
that system to duplicate and keep it together once it’s built. 
I’ll close by saying; “a failure to plan is a sure plan to fail.” The decision is yours, you can either sit
there doing nothing, because you don’t think you have the time or you can adopt the Mentoring for
Free system and save the time and frustration of having to figure out for yourself what works and
what doesn’t, and start today by building your business the easy way with a proven system. 
Regardless if you do or you don’t you have made a decision, but did it benefit you?  That’s for you
to decide!
Thanks’ with all my heart to my good friend and mentor Michael Dlouhy for deciding to take the time
to invent all the necessary components of the Mentoring for Free system that has allowed so many
people worldwide to be able to eliminate years of failure and frustration while building their Network
Marketing businesses.
With Prosperous Regards
Your Mentor and Servant
Frank LooSer (Sarge)

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Dale Rohwer, Camp Douglas, Wisconsin

Chapter 8, DECISION
The Mastery of Procrastination
Procrastination, the lack of decision, is a common enemy which practically every man/woman must conquer.
Mr. Hill writes, " 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 'gossipping' neighbors to do
their 'thinking' for them. 'Opinions' are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions
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.
If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.
Keep your own counsel, when you begin to put into practice the principles described here, by reaching your
own decisions, and following them. Take no one into your confidence, except the members of your 'Master-
Mind' group, and be very sure in your selection of this group, that you choose only those who will be in complete
sympathy and harmony with your purpose.
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through 'opinions' and sometimes
through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes
with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through
'opinions' or ridicule.
You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions. If you need facts or information
from other people, to enable you to reach decisions, as you probably will in many instances; acquire these facts
or secure the information you need quietly, without disclosing your purpose.
In your search for the  "secret" of the method, do not look for a miracle, because you will not find it. You will only
the eternal laws of NATURE. These laws are available to every person who has the 'faith and courage' to use them.
They may be used to bring freedom to a nation, or to accumulate riches. There is no charge, save the time
neccessary to understand and appropiate them."
After reading and re-reading several parts of this chapter this time, I am seeing WHY i have made most of the
decisions in my life by the wrong influences-my family and so-called friends who so willing offered THEIR opinions
to me. These people was not in complete 'harmony and sympathy' with my purpose.
As I/we, continue to build our networking marketing business, we must be very careful who we confide in about
the building, the activities and the business portion of it, that they will be a part of our 'Master-Mind' group.
Also, as I/we continue to build, I believe that we need to be in complete sympathy and harmony with the
Infinite Intelligence, which means that we have to forgive those well meaning people that thought that they was
helping us as will as asking for forgiveness for ourselves for doing the same thing to someone else. Remember also,
even if we just 'think it', it could be a sin. So let's keep ALL of our thoughts in the positive nature. My mother always
said, "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." I believe this goes as well for our thoughts.
With many 'thanks' to all who have 'Master-Minded' this great group,
Dale & Sharrie Rohwer
Camp Douglas, WI

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Uwe Wagner - Oldenburg, Germany

Decision
Once again we have come to this chapter, the one I was struggling with so often, because I have been taught that decisions must be sound to stay unchanged and, therefore, it takes time to check all information and different viewpoints.
This is right for decisions in management, but in my personal life I should have done all this already. As a consequence there is no reason to not...
“reach a decision promptly and change it, if at all, only very slowly.”
What's my own experience with it so far?
When I checked out the Mental Cleanse Programme I promptly reached the decision to participate in it and to stop inhaling all those horrible news.
Furthermore I not only came up with the decision, which by the way isn't changed for four years now, I put it into action immediately.
Since then I am glad to have good support from my family. Actually nobody in my home does miss the evening news or the crap (shows, soap operas etc.) presented on TV. If we hang around this gadget we're enjoying a good movie on DVD.
Up to now I didn't regret my decision. This feeling of freedom coming with it is intensified whenever I run into people “discussing” (it's more like they are sharing their fear or enhancing their bad mood) some particular news of the day.
Of course they are amazed I don't know about this special issue...
“But you have to know about it!” they typically say.
“No. Why? What would it help me?” is my reply.
Then there is no real answer of their own, nothing beyond the typical “one has to be informed” and blablabla.
In this moment I am generally changing the subject or simply leave them alone in their enjoyment of bad feelings.
When listening to the recorded MFF calls I reached another decision, the one to really participate in this programme by writing my own lessons.
Thanks Bob and Anna for the gorgeous question in one of those calls: “How can I recommend the Mental Cleanse if I haven't been active in it by myself?”
It struck me as if this call was made for me, it was my wake-up call.
So I started immediately, following the advice I took from Richard Dennis, to set aside some minutes every morning to read five to ten pages (actually I have read a pile of books since then).
Of course it took me some time to make writing the lesson a habit. The trick that worked for me was reserving a certain time on every Sunday. And now I am enjoying it, especially when I compare my lessons I wrote over the time. Then I recognize how much more I have taken out of Hill's book and I really do NOT feel any need of changing that decision.
Thanks Michael for making the Mental Cleanse the best never ending story ever.
Uwe

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