“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
~ Napoleon Hill
To open his chapter on Organized Planning, Hill write: “You have learned that everything we create or acquire begins in the form of desire. Desire is taken on the first lap of its journey, from the abstract to the concrete, in the workshop of the imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.”
Hill then provides us with some basic instructions for Practical Plan Making:
- Make use of the Master Mind Group. Do not neglect it.
- Determine what advantages and benefits you will offer your group in return for their aid. It does not have to be monetary, but you can’t get something for nothing.
- Meet with this group at least twice a week.
- Maintain perfect harmony within the group.
He then notes for us to keep these facts in mind:
- You are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you.
- To be sure of success, you must have plans that are faultless.
- You must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability, and imagination of other minds.
- This is the ONLY way it has been done by every person who has acclaimed a great fortune.
- No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune without the cooperation of other people.
- You may originate you own plans, either in whole or in part, but see that those plans are checked and approved by the members of your Master Mind alliance.
I’m hearing Hill loud and clear. You cannot grow abundant alone !!
And once we’ve formulated our plan …. I’ll repeat …
If at first we don’t succeed, try try again !!!
Our plans need to be practical and workable. Not fixed. “Just keep in mind that when your plans fail (and they most likely will), that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your goal.”
If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a “quitter”. A quitter never wins – and a winner never quits !!!!!!
And one more piece of advice Hill gives us here: When you begin to select members for your Master Mind group, choose only those who do not take defeat seriously.
I cannot underscore this enough. When we were at crunch time during the re-modeling of the villa, and guest were due to arrive with much still left unfinished, a friend asked me and Spencer how we were doing it. My friend said he would have given up long ago. I was exhausted, yet I would not let myself fail, and kept on going. Spencer kept me going. As a member of my Master Mind Group, he did not take any setbacks seriously, including the lack of available concrete because Hurricane Katrina & Wilma had diverted much of it. Spencer grew a beard, and exclaimed it would not be shaved until the concrete was poured !! And somehow, what needed to be done got done, and concrete came.
Personally I learned this high level of perseverence, beginning in college, and then over many years of late nights and urgent business planning at KL&Co. The clients who hired us were losing millions of dollars a second, truly! We were paid to provide timely financial advice, and often that meant working into the wee hours of the morning, long after the mind wanted to be home to bed ….
I am NOT a quitter.
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.” – Michael Jordan
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