Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Avoid the Television Trap Rich people watch less than one hour of television per day. Poor people watch five to eight hours of television per day, only going to bed when they are too tired to watch, and then getup and turn the television onto start the day. Television can be a wonderful slave but a terrible master. Your television can make you rich or make you poor. It will make you rich if you leave it off most of the time. It will make you poor if you sit and watch it hour after hour. A recent study found that as people became wealthier and wealthier, they began to move their television set farther and farther from the center of family activity. The wealthiest people actually setup a television room a place where they have to getup, go down the hall, and get themselves seated to watch television in the first place. They make it as difficult as possible to watch television, including getting rid of their television sets completely. Become Insatiably Curious Another habit of wealthy people is that they ask a lot of questions and then listen closely to the answers. Middle managers and middle-income earners seem to talk a lot and pay little attention when others are speaking. Wealthy people ask a lot of questions, listen a lot, and even take notes, knowing that almost everyone can come up with valuable insights that can be useful in generating wealth and earning more money. Maintain Your Health and Energy Rich people take excellent care of their physical health. They keep themselves well-informed about the things they can do to live a longer, healthier, and better life. It takes high levels of energy to be successful, to work long hours, to start earlier than others, and to work later. Rich people are continually seeking ways to increase their levels of energy. One expert said that the most important asset of any business is rested executive thinking time. This is your most important mental asset as well. How can you get more of it? P ROPER W EIGHT This is where proper weight is so important. Being overweight is associated with numerous health problems. One of them is that carrying extra pounds puts a strain on your body, burning up energy that you could be using for achieving the success you desire. The five-word rule for weight loss is simply Eat less and exercise more Wealthy people eat nutritious foods and drink a lot of water. As a result, they have more energy, especially mental energy they can focus on getting more and better results and earning more money. P ROPER R EST According to Anders Ericsson, a psychologist at Florida State University, elite performers sleep an average of 8.46 hours each night. What he found was that peak performance is hard work. It takes a lot of energy. You simply cannot perform at your best for any period of time if you’re only sleeping five, six, or seven hours per night. You need eight to nine hours of sleep to totally rest your body and recharge your brain for the day ahead. P ROPER E XERCISE Wealthy people exercise an average of two hundred minutes per week, or about thirty minutes per day, or more. They getup and exercise each morning. They walk more often from place to place, take the stairs more often than the elevator, and are always looking for opportunities to move their bodies. Someone once told me, Every joint in the body is meant to be fully articulated every single day That piece of advice has guided my personal exercise program for years. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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