Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| Make a Decision Resolve today to develop longtime perspective. Become intensely future oriented. Think about the future most of the time. Consider the consequences of your decisions and actions. What is likely to happen And then what could happen And then what? Practice self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control. Be willing to pay the price today in order to enjoy the rewards of abetter future tomorrow. And then take the first step. The dividing line between success and failure is not good intentions, hopes, wishes, and dreams. It is deciding what you want in each key area of your life and then taking the first step. And you can always seethe first step. ACTION EXERCISES 1. Resolve today to think long term, to consider the likely consequences of a decision before you act. Project forward three to five years, and imagine that your life was ideal in every way. How would it be different from today. Decide upon one action that you are going to take immediately to create your ideal future. And then take the first step. 2 Slow Thinking Versus Fast Thinking The successful person has developed the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose. —A LBERT E. N. G RAY Y OUR MIND IS EXTRAORDINARY. You have the capacity to think more thoughts than all the molecules in the known universe. By properly focusing the powers of your mind on any goal or desire you have, you can accomplish extraordinary things and often far faster than you realize. Your mind races continually. Your stream of consciousness is about fifteen hundred words per minute. Your mind jumps from one thought to another and then back again. It takes tremendous discipline and willpower for you to control and constrain this onrushing river of thought and to channel it in such away as to enable you to accomplish all that is possible for you. As it happens, you can think hundreds of thoughts in a row, but you can only think one thought at a time. Because of this, you have the ability to take control of this stream of consciousness and focus your thinking, like a sniper, on one thought, one target at a time. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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