Twelve Qualities of High Achievers
1. They understand—and use—the power of the mind.
2. They unlock their peak potential by focusing on what they want.
3. They use optimism to motivate themselves to peak performance.
4. They know how to get other people to like and respect them.
5. They set goals and work consistently to achieve them.
6. They organize their time for optimal efficiency.
7. They know how to create wealth for themselves.
8. They are on track to financial independence.
9. They know and use the keys to entrepreneurship.
10. They have mastered self-discipline.
11. They have superb problem-solving skills.
12. They simplify their lives by focusing on the things that give them joy.
The Self-Concept
Your Self-Ideal
Your Self-Image
Your Self-Esteem
Seven Orientations
1. Future orientation
2. Goal orientation
3. Excellence orientation
4. Result orientation
5. Solution orientation
6. Growth orientation
7. Action orientation, Do it Now
The Seven Mental Laws
1. The law of cause and effect
2. The law of control
3. The law of belief
4. The law of expectation
5. The law of attraction
6. The law of correspondence
7. The law of superconscious activity
Superconscious Mind
It works continuously on them twenty-four hours a day.
It solves every problem on the way to your goal.
It brings you exactly the answer you require at exactly the right time for you.
It requires clear goals to work on, preferably in writing.
It is activated by visualization and positive commands from your conscious mind
It operates best with a mental attitude of calm, confident expectation.
It releases ideas and energy for goal attainment on a continuing basis.
The 1,000 Percent Formula
1. Read 30 minutes in the morning.
2. Rewrite and review your major goals each morning before you start off.
3. Plan every day in advance; make a list the night before.
4. Set priorities on your tasks, and concentrate on the most valuable
5. Listen to podcasts or audio programs in your car.
6. Question after every experience, what did I do right? What would I do differently next time?
7. Treat every person you meet like a million-dollar customer.
Mental Cross-Training
1. Think and talk about what you want and how to get it.
2. Look for the good in every situation.
3. Seek the valuable lesson in every problem.
4. Feeding your mind with positive, uplifting material.
Five Ways to a Positive Attitude
1. Create an exciting vision of your ideal future, as if you had no limitations.
2. Create written goals and plans for your future, and work on them every day.
3. Resolve to be the best at your job. Resolve to join the top 10 percent.
4. Deal effectively with problems and obstacles.
5. Get busy working on your goals all day long.
Five Goals for Interactions with others
1. You want people to like and respect you in order to reinforce and validate your self-image.
2. You want people to feel that you are valuable and important.
3. We want to be able to persuade people so that we can sell ideas to others.
4. You want to get people to cooperate with you in achieving your goals.
5. You want to be personally powerful and effective in all your relationships in your personal and business life.
Making People Feel Important
Acceptance
Appreciation
Admiration
Approval
Attention
The White Magic of Listening
1. Listen attentively, lean forward, and don’t interrupt.
2. Pause before replying.
3. Question for clarification.
4. Feed back what you’ve heard, and paraphrase it in your own words.
Ten ways to overcome procrastination
1. Set clear written goals and make written plans of action.
2. Break your goals down into bite-sized activities.
3. Select one single activity and start on it immediately, motivate yourself, I do this now.
4. Swiss-cheese your tasks. selecting a small part of a big job and doing only that.
5. Salami-slice a major job. Break a major job into a series of small slices, and do one piece of the job to get started.
6. 20–80 the task. first 20 percent of time that you spend planning, organizing, and laying things out is worth 80 percent of the whole job.
7. Set a time limit. Work on a major task for fifteen minutes.
8. Set up a reward structure. Give yourself a reward for completing part of a job.
9. Make a promise to someone else. Tell them you will complete a task by a certain time.
10. Look at your list, and imagine You can only do one thing on this list before you leave.
Getting More Done in a Day
1. Work faster: pick up the pace, work at a higher tempo.
2. Work harder. Start a little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a little later.
3. Work together; work with others on big tasks.
4. Simplify the work. Eliminate steps so that you get more done faster.
5. Do things that you’re better at.
6. Bunch your tasks. Do a number of similar tasks at the same time.
7. Get better at your key tasks. Continuous and Never-Ending Improvement.
Five Don’ts for Financial Success
1. Don’t seek easy money or get led astray by get-rich-quick-schemes and ideas.
2. Don’t look for rewards without working.
3. Don’t expect someone else to do it for you: you are responsible.
4. Don’t trust luck or hope for miracles. They never occur in financial matters.
5. Don’t expect to be successful the first time.
Five Dos for Financial Success
1. Study and understand every aspect of any investments you make for the rest of your life.
2. Continually look for ways to add and increase value in every situation.
3. Be prepared to get rich slowly. All serious money is long-term, patient money.
4. Be frugal with your money at all times.
5. Resolve today to get your savings rate up to 10 to 20 percent of your income
Qualities of Millionaires
Honesty
Self-Discipline
Getting along well with others
Have supportive spouses.
Hard Worker
They do what they love to do.
Keys to Personal Financial Planning
Targeting means that you set clear financial goals for your life.
Taking stock. Work out your net worth. How much are you worth today exactly?
Trimming, reducing your expenses.
Make yourself more valuable.
Be prepared to change jobs.
Nine Disciplines
Clear Thinking
Daily Goals Setting
Daily Time Management
Courage requires that you make yourself do what you should do.
Excellent Health Habits
Regular Saving and Investing.
Hard Work
Continual Learning
Persistence in the face of adversity
Rules for surviving and thriving at crunch time
Stay Calm
Remain Confident
Take Control of Your Mind
Get the Real Facts
Four Steps for Managing a Crisis
1. Stop the bleeding. Practice damage control; put every possible limitation on losses.
2. Get the facts, speak to the key people, and find out exactly what you’re dealing with.
3. Discipline yourself to think only in terms of solutions:
4. Become action-oriented. Think in terms of your next step. Make decision.
Full Transformation
Focus your attention on what you want instead of what you don’t want.
Motivate yourself toward peak performance
Your ultimate goal is full financial independence.
Understand how to face and solve problems.
Enjoy all the things that you ever dreamed of, and to live a long, happy life.
Brian Tracy