Leadership Initiative Pledge

Business Owners International is a proponent of Napoleon Hill – one of the original “success” authors. Napoleon Hill wrote about Leadership, Attitude, Human Relations, and did an extensive study on the habits of the most successful people in the world. Here is Hill’s “Leadership Initiative Pledge” – Enjoy! I urge you to not just read this and move on with your day. Take the initiative to print this out, sign it, and put it somewhere visible.

Leadership Initiative Pledge

 Having chosen leadership as my life’s work, I now understand it is my duty to transform this purpose into reality.

Therefore, I will form the habit of taking some definite action every day that will carry me one step nearer the attainment of a great leader.

I know procrastination is a deadly enemy of all who would become leaders in any undertaking, and I will eliminate this habit by:

 - Doing some definite and useful thing each day, without anyone telling me to do it;

 - Searching until I find at least one thing I can do each day that I have not been in the habit of doing, which is of value to others;

 - Telling at least one other person each day of the value of practing this habit of doing something each day that ought to be done, without being told to do it.

I can see that the muscles of the body become strong in proportion to the extent which they are used; therefore, I understand the habit of initiative becomes fixed in proportion to the extent that it is practiced. I realize the place to begin this initiative is in the small, commonplace things connected with my daily work; therefore, I will go at my work each day as if I were doing it simply for the purpose of developing this necessary habit of initiative.

I understand that by practicing this habit of taking initiative with my daily work, not only will I be developing that habit, but I will also attract attention of those who will place greater value on my services as a result of this habit.

Signed,

______________________________ Date: _____________