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If you are reading this you would know that one of the major causes of failure is procrastination. Do you suffer from this?

“Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.”
~ Wayne Gretzky
Every leader has the habit of making decisions quickly and changing [...]

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UNWAVERING COURAGE based upon knowledge of self, and of one’s occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.

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SELF-CONTROL. The man who cannot control himself, can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one’s followers, [...]

Forming and Maintaining a Mastermind Group
Instructions by Napoleon Hill
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The first step is to adopt a Definite Purpose as an objective to be attained by the alliance, choosing individual members whose education, experience and influence are such as to make them of the greatest value in achieving that purpose.
There isn’t any use in forming a Master [...]

Definiteness of Purpose, supported by personal initiative or action. The [...]

 

 
Nobody has ever accomplished anything, never created anything, never devised any plans or developed a definite chief aim without the use of imagination ! Everything ever created or built was first mentally visioned, through imagination. In this philosophy you learn through your [...]

Law of Success - Lesson 5 - Initiative and Leadership

“You Can If You Believe You Can!”

 
 
The entire seventeen lessons harmonize and blend with each other so that they constitute a perfect chain that has been built, link by link, out of the factors that enter into the development of power through organized effort.
Leadership is [...]

I was going through some of my old links and I came across this gem of an article from Psychology Today. This is a great article that profiles a few of the greatest leaders the world has seen and looks at the research done to find the source of their great Charisma.  This article lists [...]

It does wonders to wish all those around you health, happiness, peace, promotion, wealth and all the blessings that life has to offer. As you do this you will at the same time reap these same blessings upon yourself. Remember that it is a universal law that like attracts like and what you sow, you [...]

You are the Man who used to boast
that you’d achieve the uttermost,
some day.You merely wished to show,
to demonstrate how much you know
and prove the distance you can go..Another year we’ve just passed through.
What new ideas came to you?
How many big things did you do?
Time left twelve fresh months in your care
how many of them did [...]

Lesson 1 - Introduction to The Master Mind

“You can do it if you believe you can!”

“Time is a master worker that heals the wounds of temporary defeat and equalizes the inequalities and rights the wrongs of the world. There is nothing impossible with time!”
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