Brian Tracy's Blog, page 51

Financial Independence: Invest, Insure, and Save Your Money

If you are really serious about getting rich your own way, the time to start doing something about it is now. Financial planning is the tool that you use to get from where you are to the financial independence that you desire.

The Financial Planning Stool: Invest, Insure, and Save Money

The three legs of the financial planning stool are savings, insurance and investment. Let us begin with savings and insurance. How much do you need? The basic rule with regard to how to save your money is that...

The Psychology of Time Management

The Law of Correspondence says that your outer life tends to be a mirror image of your inner life. Everywhere you look, there you are. Everywhere you look, you see yourself reflected back. You do not see the world as it is, but as you are—inside. If you want to change what is going on in the world around you—your relationships, results, and rewards—you have to take control and change what is going on in the world inside you. Fortunately, this is the only part of your life over which you have...

7 Qualities of Creative Thinkers

The more you do of what you’re doing, the more you’ll get of what you’ve got. Creative thinking requires that you continually dig deep into yourself and generate more, newer, better, faster, cheaper, different ideas that you can use to improve the important parts of your life. There are seven qualities of creative thinkers. When you practice one or more of these qualities, you begin to prove to yourself that you are truly a genius, and you simultaneously disprove the negative hypothesis.

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How a Top Sales Person Qualifies a Prospect

In the process of selling, there are several steps that the sales person must take before he or she closes. The first step, of course, is qualifying through effective communication. You cannot sell a product until you have thoroughly qualified the prospect. Every one of us has been in a situation where we have walked into a store or onto a used car lot, and somebody comes up and says, “Why don’t you take it?” Or “Are you going to buy it today?” They try to close you without ever asking you w...

Three Characteristics of a Genius—Do you possess them?

Geniuses throughout the ages have been found to possess three special characteristics.

Characteristic #1: They Have Developed Their Ability to Concentrate

First, all geniuses seem to have developed the ability to concentrate single mindedly on one question, problem or goal at a time, and to exclude all other diversions or distractions.

The more intensely you concentrate your thoughts and attention, and the more intensely you are emotionally involved with a problem or goal, the more likely it is...

How Leaders Increase Self Esteem and Unlock Unlimited Potential

To keep motivating people to perform at their best is to build self esteem, self confidence, and self respect. Each person has unlimited potential that they can bring to bare on doing the job better and faster. They have huge reservoirs of creativity that can be unleashed to solve problems, overcome obstacles and achieve business goals. Knowledge workers, which describes your team, are motivated more internally than they are externally. They perform at their best because they want to perform...

Continuous Learning is Key to Your Business Success

There are countless opportunities for you to find or create a new business, and most of them lie right under you own feet. How do you develop the ability to follow the leaders, and to find opportunities that you can take advantage of to get rich in America? There are several steps you can take.

Gather Information Through Continuous Learning

First, begin to gather information through continuous learning. Subscribe to all the magazines and trade journals in that field. Send away for the promotio...

Eliminate Financial Problems Through Self Discipline

The primary reason for financial problems in life is lack of self discipline, self mastery, and self control. It is the inability to delay gratification in the short term. It is the tendency for people to spend everything they earn and a little more besides, usually supplemented by loans and credit card debt.

Today, the savings rate in America is too low to achieve financial independence. After a lifetime of work, the average American family has a 200 net worth of only about $8,000. People co...

Time Management: How You Can Become Action Oriented

This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to become action oriented and achieve more of your goals than ever. In fact, there are so many good things that you can do that your time management skills and ability to decide among them maybe the critical determinant of what you accomplish in life.

If you are like most people today, you are overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time. As you struggle to get caught up, new tasks...

No Limits: Change Your Life With Personal Growth

There is a rule that says, “Whatever got you to where you are today is not enough to get you any further.”

What this means is that your current level of knowledge and skill has been sufficient to enable you to achieve your current income and standard of living. But for you to improve your income and your standard of living, for you to move onward and upward, you must learn and apply the new skills that are essential for professional and personal growth. And there is no other way to get ahead...