Get Smart!: How to Think and Act Like the Most Successful and Highest-Paid People in Every Field
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| ACTION EXERCISES 1. Select one area in your business or personal life where you need to make a decision involving time, money, and long-term consequences. Resolve to find out every detail of the decision before you take action. Accept nothing on faith. Ask others. Seek out one or more people who might have had your same situation or problem, and request their advice. Seek the fatal flaw in one area where you need to make a decision to go forward or not. Always assume that one exists. 4 Goal-Oriented Thinking Versus Reaction- Oriented Thinking Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It’s a state of mind—you could call it character in action.” —V INCE L OMBARDI S EVERAL SELF - MADE MILLIONAIRES, all of whom started with nothing and worked their way up, were having dinner at the home of one of their group. The conversation went back and forth about the various reasons for success and why it was that the people around this table had achieved so much when the average person achieves so little. Finally, the most successful of the group spoke up and asked, What is success?” When they turned to him for his answer, he said, Success is goals, and all else is commentary.” Turning Points Throughout your life, you will have a series of turning points. These are moments, insights, or experiences that can take a few seconds or a few months. But after one of these turning points, your life is never the same again. Sometimes you recognize one of these turning points when it takes place. Inmost cases, you only recognize that it was a turning point in retrospect. As you look back on your life, you often remember small things that happened to which you paid little attention, but the consequences of these events changed you in someway and had an influence on the person you are today. One of the major turning points in my life, and in the lives of most successful people, was my discovery of goals. I was twenty-four years old, broke, unskilled, and working as a door-to-door salesman, selling very little, earning very little, and sleeping on the floor of a friend’s one-room apartment. Then I discovered goals. Download 0.86 Mb. Share with your friends:
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