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What’s Your Forgetting Curve Costing You?
All habits, our good ones, and our bad ones are based on 3 basic conditions:
1) A TRIGGER — something that gets your attention and reminds you to take some kind of action…
2) A BEHAVIOR — a specific action you will automatically take…
3) A REWARD — what you get when you recognize the Trigger and engage in the Behavior to get the Reward you desire.
Habits are based on CRAVINGS, either positive or negative.
Crave nicotine and you smoke.
Crave chocolate and you eat cake.
Crave success and you grow rich — when you take the right sequence of actions.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn’t knock twice.
I have built my entire life around seizing ever-growing opportunities.
I have yet to hear even ONE knock on my door — or whack me upside my head.
Opportunities behave quite differently from what we have been trained to expect.
You must have POWERFUL LENSES with which to see and sense them.
Success: More of what you want… less of what you don’t.
This morning we had a wonderful conversation about getting 2018 off to the best start possible.
My advice was simple.
Take out a sheet of paper and draw a line down the middle. Label the left half WHAT I DON’T WANT… and the right side WHAT I REALLY WANT…
Listen to the audio and follow along.
1 hour here and you will not only have better direction, but a real head start towards guaranteeing 2018 becomes YOUR year.
A Challenge To Your Commitment…
This week, we are going to focus on the inevitable challenges to your dreams and goals…
Challenges that will not only test your resolution but cause you to pause and question your commitment to your 2014 Resolutions!
A Success Habit?
I made it a habit years ago to ruthlessly limit my exposure to junk, fake and useless news to just 30 minutes a day.
That is more than enough time to get a global perspective on what’s going on, process what is being said, and form an opinion.
Think about this.
There are only 1,440 minutes in a day (24 hours x 60 minutes).
Subtract 440 for sleep, rest, and downtime — you have 1,000 prime minutes to make all your dreams real.
My Christmas Wish…
“My Christmas wish for you is for you to become all you are meant to be. It is also my challenge to you. FACT: Become the best version of yourself possible, and all your hopes and dreams will be realized… because you are never given a dream without also being given the power to realize it. But, you may have to work a lot smarter than ever before.” ~ E. R. Haas, CEO
The next step: Coming out of the fog.
Last week we focused on taking the first steps towards making 2018 your best year ever. This week we will continue the theme, but from a decidedly different point of view: Your Success Potential.
If you took some time to map out your future this week—to write out your goals with clarity and detail—you have set up the rest of the year for success beyond expectation.
If you haven’t, right now is the perfect time to complete your 15 Year Time Horizon from the Set Goals Personal Workshop.
How to become a lightning rod for miracles.
For the past two weeks, we have been discussing the peace of mind that comes from knowing you have done your very best. If you do the best you can, given the circumstances in which you find yourself, what more is there?
Better.
Are you proud of what you have accomplished this year?
Engage others in your life and your dreams. Fully engage them.
In a nutshell, when you transform Thanks and Giving into THANKS LIVING, you experience joy, happiness and satisfaction in everything you do.
Learn to share your goals with others for mutual benefit—and give copious thanks and praise for their participation—and you will gain enormous power over your life.
Gratitude and Appreciation: A Powerful Combination.
Without question, the key to long-term success is constantly taking positive ACTION to move in the direction of your dreams and goals.
Sustained action gives you an indomitable will… the power to WILL your GOALS into your LIFE!
This week, in light of the upcoming Thanksgiving Weekend, we will be discussing how showing thanks and appreciation, in everyday terms, enhances your ability to live what you value most.
7 Goals People Rarely Achieve and Why…
Come the first of the year (just 60 days away,) millions of people will take out pen and pad and declare the new year… MY YEAR!
By the end of February however, the vast majority (over 80%) of these hopes, dreams and lofty aspirations will be swept to the curb as we get on with the job of living our lives.
Sensory Goal Vision = Visual Inspiration
“I noticed an almost universal trait among Super Achievers, and it was what I call Sensory Goal Vision. These people knew what they wanted out of life, and they could sense it multidimensionally before they ever had it. They could not only see it, but also taste it, smell it, and imagine the sounds and […]
Imagine
Is there anything more important than your imagination?
No is the simple answer.
Absolutely nothing is the more complex answer!
All success, of whatever nature, starts first in your imagination.
It is the source of our dreams and fantasies.
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success.
At the exact halfway point in the year, I find it useful to look back to see what I have accomplished—and look forward to see what I hope to accomplish before the year runs its course.
In a way, this turning-point is a critical juncture in reaffirming that what I say I want, is indeed what I intend to spend my working days pursuing—and if I have the power necessary to transform my hopes into tangible results.
Are you just living in a dream or living your dreams?
This week, we will be doing a “refresher” course on dreams and dreaming. Your dreams are critically important in the grand scheme of things—because without them, your life has no future.
What does it take for you to be a winner?
“Without AMBITION one starts nothing. Without WORK one finishes nothing. The prize will NOT be sent to you. You have to WIN it. The man who knows HOW will always have a job. The man who also knows WHY will always be his boss. As to METHODS there may be a million and then some, […]
What is Your Excellence Factor?
Have you ever wondered why some people achieve success beyond their wildest hopes, dreams and expectations… while others struggle just to make it from payday to payday? Have you ever wondered why some people make a fortune in their businesses—truly capitalizing on their talents, strengths and interests—while others go through their life savings, staying just one step ahead of the bankruptcy courts?
Instantly More Successful… Hype or Hope?
I know this sounds like a hopelessly over-hyped offer, but this is what we do here every day!
As you have come to know, TQ measures how smart you take action — the true measurement of your success potential.
Essentially, we measure what you do against what the most successful people in the world actually DO.
It stands to reason that if you make the same smart choices, and take the same smart actions as highly successful people, then you too will enjoy high achievement.
Do you want a new future?
The simple truth is, we are all living in the most treacherous economy in history. We have entered the age of HYPER-COMPETITION. The best will THRIVE. The rest will bearly SURVIVE this dynamic reshaping of the global marketplace.
You will never excel until you connect your actions to something you truly value.
This week, we will be getting VERY personal… asking the truly IMPORTANT questions:
Are you actually LIVING what you say you value, or are you consumed by the moment…
with no forward movement in the direction of your dreams?
The importance of knowing what you value more than something else is critical to your day-to-day performance.
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