Understanding how to become active requires understanding how not to procrastinate

1. Form the habit of each day doing the most distasteful tasks first. This procedure will be difficult in the beginning, but after you have formed the habit you will take pride in first dealing with the hardest and most undesirable part of your work.

2. Place this sign in front of you where you can see it daily while you work, and put a copy where you can see it before you go to sleep and when you arise: "Do not tell them what you can do-show them!"

3. Repeat the following words, aloud, twelve times each night just before you go to sleep: "Tomorrow I will do everything that should be done, when it should be done, and as it should be done. I will perform the most difficult tasks first because this will destroy the habit of procrastination and develop the habit of action in its place."

4. Carry out these instructions with faith in their soundness and with belief that they will develop action, in body and in mind, sufficient to enable you to realize your Definite Chief Aim.

I would like to refer back to what I said about the value of a hearty laugh as a healthful stimulant to action, and add that singing produces the same effect and in some cases is far preferable to laughing.

I LOVE TO HEAR A CHOIR. I LOVE THE HUMANITY, TO SEE THE FACES OF REAL PEOPLE DEVOTING THEMSELVES TO A PIECE OF MUSIC. I LIKE THE TEAMWORK. IT MAKES ME FEEL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE HUMAN RACE WHEN I SEE THEM COOPERATING LIKE THAT. -Paul McCartney

If church attendance had nothing else to recommend it except the psychological effect of the song service, that would be sufficient, for no one can join in the singing of a beautiful hymn without feeling better for it.

Any form of group effort, where two or more people form a cooperative alliance for the purpose of accomplishing a definite purpose, becomes more powerful than mere individual effort.

THE GREATEST LEADER IS NOT NECESSARILY THE ONE WHO DOES THE GREATEST THINGS, BUT THE ONE WHO GETS THE PEOPLE TO DO THE GREATEST THINGS. -Ronald Reagan

A group composing a board of directors may disagree with one another, they may be unfriendly and in no way in sympathy with one another, and still carry on a business that appears to be very successful. 

A husband and wife may live together, raise a family, and accumulate a fair-sized or even a great fortune, without having the bond of harmony that is essential for the development of a Master Mind.

But all these alliances might be made more powerful and effective if based upon a foundation of perfect harmony, thus permitting the development of the supplemental power of the Master Mind. All cooperative effort produces power, there can be no doubt about this, but cooperative effort that is based upon complete harmony of purpose develops superpower. 

Let every member of any cooperative group set their hearts on the achievement of the same definite end, in a spirit of perfect harmony, and the way has been paved for the development of a Master Mind-providing all members of the group willingly subordinate their own personal interests for the attainment of the objective for which the group is aiming. 

A great leader, whether in business, finance, industry, or statesmanship, is one who understands how to create a motivating objective that will be accepted with Enthusiasm by every member of their group of followers. 

THE IMPORTANT THING TO RECOGNIZE IS THAT IT TAKES A TEAM, AND THE TEAM OUGHT TO GET CREDIT FOR THE WINS AND THE LOSSES. SUCCESSES HAVE MANY FATHERS, FAILURES HAVE NONE.

 -Philip Caldwell  

Most people will work harder for the attainment of an ideal than they will for mere money. In searching for a "motive" as the basis for developing cooperative group effort, it will be profitable to bear this in mind. Give someone a sufficiently vitalized motive and even the person of average ability, under ordinary circumstances, will suddenly develop superpower.

What a man can and will accomplish to please the woman of his choice has ever been a source of wonderment to students of the human mind. 

There are three major motivating forces to which man responds in practically all of his efforts:

1. The motive of self-preservation 

2. The motive of sexual contact 

3. The motive of financial and social power  

WE CANNOT BE SEPARATED IN INTEREST OR DIVIDED IN PURPOSE. WE STAND TOGETHER UNTIL THE END. 

-Woodrow Wilson

Leaders who are seeking a motivating force out of which to secure action may find it under one or more of those three classifications.  

The three major motivating forces have been noted here for the guidance of the leader who wishes the Cooperation of followers who will throw themselves into carrying out his or her plans in a spirit of unselfishness and perfect harmony. We do well that which we love to do, and fortunate is the leader who has the good judgment to assign all of their followers the roles that harmonize with this law.

If you plan to attain the object of your chief aim through the cooperative efforts of others, you must set up in the minds of those whose Cooperation you seek a motive strong enough to ensure their full, undivided, unselfish Cooperation. When you do, you will be empowering your plans with the law of the Master Mind.