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Self discipline and personal success, Success is predictable, Describe…
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Success is predictable
You succeed when you do what other successful people do, over and over, until these behaviors become a habit.
you fail if you don’t do what successful people do. In either case, nature is neutral. Nature does not take sides. Nature doesn’t care. What happens to you is simply a matter of law—the law of cause and effect.
Your default mechanism is the almost irresistible attraction of the expediency factor and the path of least resistance that I described in the Introduction.
When you are not working deliberately, consciously, and continue to do, be, and have those things that constitute success for you, your default mechanism is at work.
You end up doing those fun, easy, and low-value things in the short term that lead to frustration, financial worries, and failure in the long term.
Describe your ideal life
If your business, work, and career were ideal in every way, what would they look like? What would you be doing? What sort of much money would you earn?
If your family life were perfect in every way, what would it look like? Where would you live, and how would you be living? What kind of a lifestyle would you have? What sort of things would you want to have and do with the members of your family?
If your health were perfect, how would you describe it? How would you feel? How much would you weigh? How would your levels of health and fitness be different from what they are today? Most of all, what steps could you take immediately to begin moving toward your ideal levels of health and energy?
If your financial situation were ideal, how much would you have in the bank? How much would you be earning each month and each year from your investments? If you had enough money that you never had to worry about finances again, how much would that be?
Do you own thing
“being able to live your life in your own way, doing only those things that you want to do, with the people who you choose, in the situations you desire.”
when you begin to define what “success” means to you, you can immediately see things that you should be doing more of or less of in order to begin creating your ideal life.
And the biggest thing that holds you back from moving in the direction of your dreams is usually your favorite excuses and a lack of self-discipline.
It’s not that you don’t know what to do, but rather that you don’t have the discipline to make yourself do what you should do, whether you feel like it or not.
the secrets of success
“There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.”
One of the most important requirements for success, once you have decided what it is that you want, is the quality of willingness.
Everyone wants to be successful. Everyone wants to be healthy, happy, thin, and rich. But most people are not willing to pay the price. Occasionally, they may be willing to pay part of the price, but they are not willing to pay the whole price. They always hold back
They always have some excuse or rationalization for not disciplining themselves to do everything that they need to do to achieve their goals.
Join the top 20 percent
e top 20 percent of people earn 80 percent of the
money and enjoy 80 percent of the riches and rewards.
there is a premium on knowledge and skill. The more knowledge you acquire and the greater skill that you apply, the more competent and valuable you become. As you get better at what you do, your income-earning ability increases—like compound interest.
Because of this increasing disparity of productive ability, based on knowledge, skill, and hard work, the top 1 percent of people in American today control as much as 33 percent of the financial assets.
the great law
“If you do what other successful people do, over and over again, nothing can stop you from eventually enjoying the same rewards that they do. But if you don’t do what successful people do, nothing can help you.”
” This law says that whatever you put in, you get out. It also says that whatever you are reaping today is a result of what you have sown in the past
So if you are not happy with your current “crop,” it is up to you, starting today, to plant a new crop, to begin doing more of those things that lead to success —and to stop engaging in those activities that lead nowhere.
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hard work is the key
The indispensable requirement for hard work is self-discipline. Success is possible only when you can overcome the natural tendency to cut corners and take the easy way.
I started my own life with no money or advantages. For years, I worked at laboring jobs, at which I earned just enough to get from paycheck to paycheck.