Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Well Begun Is Half-Done The habit of starting and completing your most important task first thing each morning will transform your life. Task completion releases endorphins, nature’s happy drug in your brain. These endorphins enhance your creativity, improve your personality, motivate you, and give you energy. They make you feel more powerful and productive. When you start and complete an important task first thing in the morning, you launch yourself into the zone You actually function on a higher level, getting more top-quality work done faster all day long. Focus on Results Keep asking, What results are expected of me?” And of all the results that you could possibly achieve, what are the most important things you need to do quickly and well that can make the greatest difference in your career? Whatever your answer is to this question, get started on that one task immediately, and keep going until it is complete. The development of this habit will quickly move you into the ranks of the most productive people in your business and industry. ACTION EXERCISES 1. Think on paper. Write things down. Always work from a list or, even better, a checklist. Determine your big three those tasks that represent 90 percent of the value of your contribution to your company and to yourself. Discipline yourself to start immediately each morning on the most valuable use of your time, and then persist until that task is 100 percent complete. 6 Positive Thinking Versus Negative Thinking Hold yourself responsible fora higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else. —H ENRY W ARD B EECHER A RISTOTLE , perhaps the greatest philosopher of all time, studied the human condition more extensively than any other man in history. He concluded that the ultimate goal of human life and endeavor was happiness. He said that every act a person takes is aimed at achieving a greater state of happiness, however the individual defines it. You want to get a good job. Why To earn more money. Why To be able to provide for your family and enjoy a good lifestyle. Why To achieve personal and financial security. Why So you can be happy. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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