Brian Tracy's Blog, page 42
March 20, 2014
Gaining Financial Independence in Your Own Business
If you are really serious about becoming wealthy, the number one road to riches, at the head of the list and on the top of the hit parade throughout the history of America, is entrepreneurship, starting and building a successful business. Entrepreneurship includes every kind of business, from farming and trucking to real estate and computers.
The path to financial independence in business starts with being goal oriented and overcoming your fear of failure. If it is your dream to start your own...
March 18, 2014
My Best Tips on How to Stop Procrastinating
Do you need to learn how to stop procrastinating? The quality of your time management often determines the quality of your life.Your time management abilities and organizational skills can be the critical factor in your success as a sales professional.
The Keys to Time Management
In sales you are only working when you are face to face with a real, live prospect or customer. Top salespeople do their preparation and organizing work in non-selling time. They use time management and organizational...
March 7, 2014
How to Achieve Great Success While Dealing With Adversity
Here’s a question for you: What are you made of? What are you really made of and how will you achieve great success? When push comes to shove, when the rubber meets the road, when the chips are down, and when you clear your mind what lies at the very core of your pillars of character?
Discovering Your Pillars of Character
You learn what you’re really made of only when things go wrong and you are tumbled, end over end, by some adversity or setback that hits you like a Mack truck coming out of an...
February 28, 2014
Key Success Factors To Achieve Your Career Goals
Your primary goal should be to increase the likelihood that you will be one of those remarkable people who achieves greatly and makes a real difference with his or her life. And this is very much in your own hands.
To realize your full potential, you must focus on your career goals, hard work and success factors. Free yourself as much as possible from randomness and uncertainty. You must organize your life in such a way that the probabilities of achieving your career goals are extremely high.
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February 25, 2014
6 Secrets of the Best Places to Work
Ken Blanchard and Norman Peale wrote a book together called The Fortunate 500. They looked at the top 20 percent of companies in each industry, those companies that had consistently achieved higher levels of profitability than those in the bottom 80 percent in the same industry. The top 20 percent of the companies were also, known for having a positive progressive work environment with strong business ethics and were ranked at the top best places to work.
Importance of Business Ethics
One of th...
February 21, 2014
Dare to Dream: Seize the Day with 7 Simple Steps
Allow yourself to dare to dream big dreams. Decide what’s right and seize the day before you decide what’s possible. Imagine your future as ideal in every respect, and remember: Whatever others have done, within reason, you can probably do as well so just do it.
Once you’ve decided where you’re going, the only question you ask is “How do I get there?” How do you get from where you are today to where you want to be? And remember, failure is not an option.
Dare to Dream and Discover Your Personal...
February 12, 2014
2 Leadership Traits Needed to Become a Great Leader
The great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes, once said that there are three types of 
people: the people who make things happen, the people who watch what’s happening, and the people who haven’t the slightest idea of what’s happening. Today, as never before, our society is experiencing a pressing need for great leadership.
This need for leadership can be felt in our homes, in our business organizations, in our private and public associations, and in our government. We need great lea...
February 5, 2014
How Self-Made Millionaires Create Financial Success
You become what you think about most of the time. If you sincerely want to be rich, to achieve all your financial goals and to retire as a self-made millionaire, one of the smartest things you can do is to develop the habits of thinking and acting that have enabled hundreds of thousands, and even millions of other people to become self-made millionaires. These habits of financial success are learnable, as all habits are, by practice and repetition.
Your Thoughts Create Your Financial Success
Th...
January 31, 2014
4 Must Know To-Do Lists To Prioritize Tasks
Do you often feel overwhelmed by the amount of work you have, or have you missed an important deadline? Or have you ever forgotten to do something important?
These are symptoms of lacking organizational skills needed to prioritize tasks with a proper to-do list. To-do lists are key for efficiency because they list everything that you have to do, the most important tasks at the top, and the least important tasks at the bottom.
Leverage Your Organizational Skills
Your ability to improve your organ...
January 30, 2014
4 MUST Know Lists to Maximize Your Day
Your ability to prioritize tasks is a measure of your overall competence. The better the plan you have, the easier it is for you to overcome procrastination and get started, to eat your frog and keep going.
Leverage Your Organizational Skills
One of your top goals at work should be for you to prioritize tasks by using your organizational skills to get the highest possible return on your investment of mental, emotional and physical energy. The good news is that every minute spent planning saves...
