H. ORGANIZED PLANNING

SUCCESS REQUIRES NO EXPLANATIONS. FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS.

Everything you create or acquire begins in the form of desire. That desire is taken to the workshop of imagination, where plans for its transition are created and organized.

HOW TO BUILD A PLAN

1. Ally yourself with a mastermind group.

2. Before forming your mastermind group, decide what advantages and benefits you offer them.

3. Meet rugularly. Napoleon Hill recommends twice a week.

4. Maintain perfect harmony. It is vitally important that all members of the group are working toward the same goal.

Remember, you are engaged in an undertaking of major importance to you. To be sure of success, you must have plans which are faultless.

You must have the advantage of the experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds.

No one has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to insure the accumulation of a great fortune, without

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the cooperation of other people. Every plan you adopt, in your endeavor to accumulate wealth, should be the joint creation of yourself and every other member of your mastermind group. If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan. If this new plan fails to work, replace it, until you find a plan that works. This is the point where most people meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

There is no value in persistently pursuing a plan that doesn’t work. If something isn’t working, change it.

The most intelligent person living cannot succeed in accumulating money, or anything else, without plans which are practical and workable. Keep this fact in mind, and remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure. I may only mean that your plans have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again.

Temporary defeat should mean only one thing- the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Your achievement can be no greater than your plans are sound.

You can’t expect to accumulate a fortune, or achieve any other worthwhile goal, without experiencing temporary defeat. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and try again.

Because your plan is the most important asset you have, be careful when selecting your mastermind group. Only include people who are determined to succeed.

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REVIEW

1. In assembling your mastermind group, what qualities should you look for?

2. What should you do when you are sure your plan doesn’t work?

3. Temporary defeat means there is something wrong with your ____________ .

“If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly

people grant your requests when those requests appeal to

their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go

after.”

- Napoleon Hill

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