A DEFINITE CHIEF AIM 167In a vague sort of way nearly everyone has a definite purpose-
the desire for money. But this is not a difinite purpose within the meaning
of the term as it is used in this lesson. Before your purpose could be
considered difiniteJ even though that purpose were the accumulation of
money, you would have to reach a decision as to the precise method
through which you intend to accumulate that money. It would be insuf-
ficient for you to say that you would make money by going into some
sort of business. You would have to decide just what line of business.
You would also have to decide just where you would locate. And you
would also have to decide the business policies under which you would
conduct your business.
In answering the question "What is your definite purpose in life?"
which appears in the questionnaire that I have used for the analysis' of
more than 16,000 people, many answered in somewhat this way:
"My definite purpose in life is to be of as much service to the world
as possible and to earn a good living:'
That answer is about as definite as a frog's concept of the size of
the universe is accurate!
The object of this lesson is not to inform you as to what your
life's work should be, for indeed this could be done with accuracy only
after you have been completely analyzed. What this lesson is intended
to do is to impress upon your mind a clear concept of the value of a
difinite purpose of some nature, and, as has also been stated, to be sure that
you understand the value of organized effort as a means of attaining the
necessary power with which to achieve that difinite purpose.
Careful observation of the business philosophy of more than one
hundred men and women who have attained outstanding success in
their respective callings disclosed the fact that each was a person of
prompt and definite decision.
The habit of working with a Definite Chief Aim will create in you
the habit of prompt decision, and this habit will come to your aid in all
that you do.