Make a Decision and Stick With It

"We THINK our way to success, as we apply the rules Hill uncovered." These principles to success are intertwined with Scripture. This column provides a glimpse of the principles discovered by Hill. This week, we take Hill's principle of "decision" to see how you're doing in this area, and add his principle of "persistence" to it.

Before embarking upon the journey caused by a decision you've made, ask yourself: Does this decision bring glory to God? Would it dishonor God? Allow the Lord to direct your path.

The Scripture, in the Book of James, also tells us a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Do you decide one thing today and something different tomorrow?

Hill's research disclosed the fact that successful people had the habit of reaching decisions promptly and changing these decisions slowly, if and when they were changed at all.

"People who fail to accumulate success or money, without exception, have the habit of reaching decisions, if at all, very slowly and of changing these decisions quickly and often," says Hill. Don't let this be you!

The decision to start a small business was one of the best decisions I have made. Though I didn't become a millionaire, my sisters and I certainly did achieve success in many ways, for example, I had political appointments, large contract awards, meeting and working with many

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celebrities, etc., look at the power of making a decision from my very own example!

In fact, serving as project director for a national monument where more than 100,000 people visited annually from around the world wouldn't have happened if I had not started my small business; I wouldn't be a member of All Nations Baptist Church. And finally, I wouldn't be here writing this column today, because Denise Rolark Barnes would not have met me. Had I not made the decision to start a business and to do everything I possibly could, with my hand in God's hand, none of this would have happened, I would still be living in Los Angeles or somewhere in California, maybe up north near San Francisco in the Bay Area, but I would not be the woman that I am today!

There is enormous power unleashed by a simple decision. You wouldn't go to a restaurant and after looking at the menu say, "I don't want that, I don't want that, and I really don't want that, and that makes me sick to think about it," would you? Isn't it a lot faster to make a decision about what it is you do want? Often, we move through life more focused on those things we do not want. Make a decision about what you do want and begin to take action. Study more on this principle and the power of making a decision. Then once you start, never stop until the job is done. WI