Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
Download 0.86 Mb. View original pdf
|
- Navigate this page:
- Habits of Wealthy People
- Do What You Love
- Set Clear Goals
| Form Good Habits Good habits are hard to form but easy to live with. Bad habits, on the other hand, are easy to form but hard to live with. The rule is for you to form good habits and make them your masters. New habits are difficult to practice and learn at first, but soon they become automatic and easy. Soon it becomes easier to practice your new habit than to fallback into your old ways of doing things. Habits of Wealthy People You can develop several habits that are practiced by virtually all rich people. For example, in the Forbes 2015 survey of self-made billionaires, fully 76 percent attributed their success to hard work and self-discipline.” Millionaires work about sixty hours per week, usually six days a week, ten or more hours per day. They arise early and get started by 7:00 or am. and keep going until 6:00 or 7:00 pm. As David Foster, the music impresario, said, I don’t know any successful people who work less than six days a week.” Do What You Love Here’s the key. Do what you love to do. Do work that you enjoy, that attracts you, energizes you, and makes you happy. Most millionaires say that they never workaday in their lives. They just do something they love to do and get paid very well for it. You should do the same. In addition to working hard and having self-discipline, millionaires do not waste time. They think continually about revenue generation by serving their customers better, faster, and cheaper than their competitors, no matter what business they are in. They continually ask themselves, Is this the most valuable use of my time in achieving my goals?” Set Clear Goals Most millionaires are intensely goal oriented. They have a major definite purpose, one big goal, sometimes called a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) that they think about and work on all the time. What is yours? Millionaires set measures, especially financial measures, and deadlines for each of their goals. Millionaires are frugal, careful with their money. They examine every detail of an investment or an expense before making a decision. They like to earn money, but they hate to lose money. Millionaires focus on financial accumulation, on earning and keeping more and more of their money. As the Japanese proverb says, Making money is like digging in the sand with a pin. Losing money is like pouring water on the sand.” Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
|