Organized Planning - What Does This Mean To You?

The Title of Chapter 7 from the book, Think and Grow Rich was originally misleading to me. When you read it please share in the discussion area below what did you get out of this chapter?

For those whom have stumbled onto this weekly book study on this iconic book Think and Grow Rich, you can catch up with what we have been doing through the following original bog post that started this all off:

Think and Grow Rich Could Be Worth A Million Dollars To You!

At the end of this post I have placed the links to posts on the previous chapters of this book that provided summaries and important points from the respective chapters.

The Role Of Leadership In Organized Planning

Although this chapter has a title about organized planning, it addresses the importance of LEADERSHIP as a critical component of organized planing.

The link between organized planning and leadership is the importance of using INTELLIGENT LEADERSHIP in planning one's course of action that will eventually provide you with the riches you desire.

In its simplest form, accumulation of riches is obtained by the selling of one's personal services. This can occur through one's job, or the business you create.

How To Shave Time Off Your Timeline

Napoleon Hill goes into great detail on how to approach getting a job that will propel you half-way up the ladder through deliberate and careful planning.

The process starts with being a good follower to leaders worth following. In so doing, you can learn from them and eventually become a successful leader yourself. For it is the quality of enlightened leadership that will develop confidence in your followers.

Let me make a connection to the followers we in affiliate marketing need - namely the readers of our bog posts who we hope will become customers. We want them to follow our advice. Right?

Can you see what we are really doing with our posts is selling our personal services? What do you think is the quality we must have to earn the trust of the reader? They must feel we know what we are talking about, At a level they can trust our advice.

Why?

So that they can make an informed decision to follow whatever we tell them. To buy what we are promoting because it will satisfy a need they have.

11 Attributes Of Leadership

Napoleon Hill elaborates on 11 attributes of enlightened leadership. He also goes into 10 major causes of failure in leadership. I strongly recommend you read this chapter carefully, especially the section about leadership.

In not so many words, the best form of leadership is SERVANT leadership. He addresses this by using the QQS ranking method.

1. Quality of Service
2. Quantity of Service
3. Spirit of Service

If you attain high marks in 1 and 2 but low marks in 3, success will be elusive. In order to provide exceptional service, we must deliver it in the right spirit. Were you aware of that?

The day of the go-getter has been replaced by the go-giver. Sound principles are timeless.

The Value Of Preparation

Mr. Hill uses the example of a lawyer to illustrate his point. It is not the lawyer who know the most law but the one who best prepares his case who wins.

I found it enlightening that all those years ago, Napoleon Hill stated that do not be afraid of making your brief too long. Aren't we taught in Wealthy Affiliate to write long posts?

When you happen to watch webinars that are promoting a product or service aren't they quite long? And if you try to leave the video, you get redirected to a written blog that is also very long?

Why is that?

Long articles that explains all about the product or service in great detail is what an interested person is looking for. The key element is that the visitor must be looking for that item. And they do that by entering a keyword phrase in the search engines.

What Is Your True Worth?

This chapter takes us through a process of helping us to determine what our true worth is by using a 28 point questionnaire. I suggest we all go through this and answer the questions honestly.

To help us succeed, this chapter lists 31 major causes of failure. Knowing what they are so that we can avoid or minimize these causes, will help us enormously towards being successful.

Napoleon Hill suggests asking a friend you know well to go over this with you to tell you which points of failure apply to us. You can do this by yourself. However, we rarely can judge ourselves accurately without emotion.

Intelligent Planning

Intelligent planning is an essential process for success. Individually we may not have all the knowledge to plan intelligently all by ourselves. Here is where it is critical to have a MasterMind of others to draw on whom have the expertise we do not have in order to plan the actions we need.

Doesn't membership in Wealthy Affiliate help us in this direction? Here we have an army of individuals who are experts in areas we are not who we can draw on for assistance. Napoleon Hill certainly knew what he was talking about as he emphasized how important this process was.

Without having a MasterMind to help, success would not happen. Nobody who has achieved success was able to do is all by themselves. Equally, important, it was necessary to work in harmony with members in the MasterMind.

Everything above leads to the creating plans that are practical. Let me quote:

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

SECOND: you must have the advantage of experience, education, native ability and imagination of other minds. This is in harmony with the methods of every person who has accumulated a great fortune.

If Your Plan Fails What Next?

And if a plan fails, never give up. All that means is that specific plan was flawed. Create a replacement plan using lessons learned. Until one quite, you never truly fail. Virtually all successful people faced temporary defeat. They never gave up. And we shouldn't either.

Some people think that by just working hard is all that is necessary to succeed. That is not true. You need to have a good plan in place that is used as a guide on what actions to work hard on.

There is so much golden nuggets in this chapter that I cannot address all of them in a blog post. You have to read it, just like all the other chapters in order to absorb it all in. Now I can see why it is necessary to read this book several times.

The next time I do that I will use a thick yellow marker to identify key phrases throughout the book for easy reference. I suggest you also do the same.

Call To Action

Please read this chapter at least twice and go through the exercises recommended. That is a surefire way to benefit from the lessons taught here. The plan is by the end of this book study, we will all be better positioned to take our business to the next level.

Share your thoughts in discussion area below.

A Reminder

Are you reading your affirmations you developed from Chapter 2 aloud and with conviction twice daily? It is crucial to do that to reprogram one's brain for the reasons explained there. I am remiss in doing this and must correct the situation.

I wish you much success in your affiliate marketing journey.

Edwin