Brian Tracy's Blog, page 29

The Importance of Taking Time for Yourself to Try Something New

When you’re on the path to achieving your goals, it’s easy to become laser-focused on the end-result.

However, it’s important to remember to take mental and physical breaks as you progress towards success. Finding goal-life balance is equally, if not more important than finding work-life balance: you need to take sometime to re-energize and reset in order to create your best self.

Regular relaxation is essential for a long life and personal effectiveness. Try to take a mini-vacation every few...

Why Should You Write a Book? (3 Reasons You Should, Even if You’re Not a Writer)

Let me start by telling you this:

You can learn how to write a book.

Inside of you, there lies the ability to write your first book on a subject that’s important to you.

I’ve written and published over 70 books in as many as 42 languages and sold over 10 million copies over the years.

I accomplished this after starting from nothing, and not knowing what I was doing at all.

There are several reasons why I decided to do this…

But the biggest reason was to spread my message about subjects that I...

[Summer Sale Live] The Importance of Taking Time for Yourself to Try Something New

When you’re on the path to achieving your goals, it’s easy to become laser-focused on the end-result.

However, it’s important to remember to take mental and physical breaks as you progress towards success. Finding goal-life balance is equally, if not more important than finding work-life balance: you need to take sometime to re-energize and reset in order to create your best self.

Regular relaxation is essential for a long life and personal effectiveness. Try to take a mini-vacation every few...

The Science of Money: Earn More By Learning More

How much do you know about money?

It’s interesting that most people think about money all the time and don’t know anything about it.

By understanding the history of money you can increase your earning potential by a great deal.

There is a secret to being able to earn more…

The History of Money

At one time, there was no money, there was only bartering. If you caught a fish, you would trade with a person who had cut down a pineapple from a tree.

If you made boats, you would trade with a person...

3 Underrated Tips to Achieve Work-Life Balance

Is finding a work-life balance something that you struggle with?

The first thing to understand about work-life balance is that most people have the wrong idea of what that actually means. They think that their whole life should be balanced. That they should have a little bit of work and a little bit of play and a little bit of time on the weekends, in order to improve their quality of life.

When thinking about your quality of life, you have to ask yourself:

What do you really want to do with...

3 Rules to Raise Self-Confident Children

Raising happy, healthy, and self-confident children is a much more difficult job than it seems.

I’ve studied this topic for many years and have even developed many programs and speeches on this very topic. I found out before I had my first child, and I have 4 children and 5 grandchildren, that there are certain ways that parents respond to and interact with their children that help ensure their success in life.

1) Ensure Your Children Have Rules

The first thing parents with happy and confiden...

3 of the Best Entrepreneur Books You Should Read

One of the most important lessons that I’ve learned throughout my career is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel…

There are plenty of people out there who have already attempted to do the things that you may want to do, and many of them have written books about exactly how to do it.

I’ve made a habit of finding books written by influential people I admire, studying them, and then applying those lessons to my own life.

Here are 3 of the best entrepreneur books that I can recommend to you....

How to Sell Value Rather Than Price

One of the great areas that I work on with corporations all over the world is called value selling, or the customer value offering.

Value selling says that customers buy your value or service because they anticipate enjoying a value that they would not have in the absence of your product or service. People don’t buy products, they buy the results the product will give them.

I’ve trained more than 2 million salespeople in 75 countries and I teach them all the same thing:

Sell the value and th...

How to Use The 80/20 Rule For Goal Setting

The 80/20 rule isone of the most helpful concepts for life and time management.

According to this principle: 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results.It can change the way you set goals forever.

The 80/20 rule is also called the “Pareto Principle” named after it’s founder, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto from 1895. He noticed that people in society seemed to divide naturally into what he called the “vital few,”or the top 20 percent in terms of money and...

5 Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs

Are there certain qualities that all successful entrepreneurs share?

After years of personal experience and coaching, I’ve discovered that entrepreneurs share very similar qualities that make them successful. Fortunately, all of these qualities can be learned. It is up to you to carefully examine your strengths and dedicate yourself to learning.

How do these traits match up to your own?

1) Self-Discipline

The first trait that all successful entrepreneurs must possess is self-discipline. Self-...