Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
Earn and Acquire Ten Times as Much
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| Earn and Acquire Ten Times as Much In my experience over several decades, and as a result of reading every study into those people with and without goals, I have found that the top percent earn and acquire, overtime, on average, ten times as much as the bottom 97 percent put together. Why is this There are many reasons. In the previous chapter, we said that a mantra of wealthy people is “Don’t lose money.” In terms of success, we could say that the corollary is “Don’t lose time.” The fact is that when you have clear, specific goals and clear plans to achieve those goals and you work on them everyday, you save an enormous amount of time. You accomplish more in a few months or years than many people accomplish in a lifetime. By setting goals, you program your mental GPS, which then functions like a guided missile to move you directly toward the target you have aimed at, taking feedback from your target and making course corrections until you achieve your goal. As Thomas Carlyle wrote, The person without goals makes no progress on even the smoothest road. The person with clear goals makes rapid progress on even the roughest road.” You have heard the saying If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” Develop the Big Three Perhaps the very best way for you to develop the big three of superior thinking—clarity, focus, and concentration—is for you to develop clear goals for every part of your life. Fully 95 percent of success is developing clarity in the first place. You must become completely clear about who you are—your strengths, your weaknesses, your special talents and abilities—and what you want to do with your life. Then you must focus single-mindedly on one thing at a time, without diversion or distraction. According to both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the ability to focus on one thing at a time is more responsible for success in our fast-moving, turbulent times than any other mental ability. Finally, once you have decided who you are and what you want and have decided upon your point of focus, you must develop the discipline to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing at a time and stay with it until it is percent complete. Goals enable you to develop the qualities of clarity, focus, and concentration much faster than anything else you could door decide for your life. Goals are the best antidote to fuzzy thinking which is probably more responsible for frustration and failure than any other factor. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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