Brian Tracy's Blog, page 56

Secret Habits of Self-Made Millionaires: How to Save Money and Achieve Financial Freedom

The decisive factor in the achievement of financial freedom is the development of specific habits. Self-made millionaires have already learned these habits and as the result of practice and repetition, have reached financial freedom. You can learn to save money and think like self-made millionaires to become financially independent yourself

The First Habit of Self-Made Millionaires

Perhaps the most easily identifiable habit of self-made millionaires is the habit of frugality. Wealthy people are...

Business Development: 9 Questions You Should Never Stop Asking as a Business Owner

As a business owner, here are some questions that you need to ask over and over, as your the market evolves and your strategic plan changes. Very often, the answers to these business development questions will change in response to evolving conditions. It is important that you change as well when it is necessary.

1. What business are you in? What business are you really in?

A typical business owner will answer this question by explaining the product or service that they sell. But this is not th...

5 Time-Saving Tips to Gain More Free Time and Get Things Done Efficiently

Everyone wants more free time to do the things they love. It can take hard effort to get things done and save time when our schedules are packed with things to do. But first, in order to save time, it’s important to examine how we spend our time.

What Happened to Our Free Time?

According to time management specialist Michael Fortino, over an average lifetime, you will spend seven years in the bathroom. You will spend six years eating. You will spend five years waiting in lines. You will spend f...

Stay Positive and Move Forward: Avoid Dealing with Mistakes the Wrong Way

Everyone makes mistakes and the busier you are, the more mistakes you will make. The only question is “Do you stay positive and move forward from life’s inevitable ups and downs?”



Here’s how you can learn to maintain positive thinking and benefit from your mistakes in the face of adversity.

Free Report: Taking Action

This is achieved through the simple exercise of self-disclosure. For you to truly understand yourself and to move forward from the troubling things that may have happened in your pa...

Career Action Plan: How Successful People Use Gap Analysis to Achieve Career Goals

If you have set specific career goals for yourself, you must start by creating an action plan for yourself. Successful people are future-oriented and practice Gap Analysis in their job.

The starting point of creating an action plan, requires that you are future-orientated, meaning you develop a long-term vision for yourself and to reach your career goals.

Dr. Edward Banfield’s work at Harvard over a fifty-year period concluded that the most successful people in our society have “longtime perspe...

The Power of Consultative Selling and Becoming a Master Problem Solver

In consultative selling, you position yourself as a consultant, an expert, an advisor, a helper and teacher in the sales situation. Above all, you position yourself as a problem solver. You ask good questions and listen attentively to the answers.

When you are a sales person working with a business, you position yourself as a “Financial Improvement Specialist.” This requires that you focus all your attention on showing the customer how his or her business can be financially better off as the r...

How to Get Off the Boom and Bust Rollercoaster

98% Of People Have Been Financially Crushed In This Economy

Here’s How To Get Off The Boom And Bust Rollercoaster, Get Out Of The Rat Race… Live Life On Your Terms… And Become Financially Free!

Let me ask you…

- Are you better or worse off than you were five years ago?

- Has your net worth grown or shrunk – or are you saying what net worth?

- Have you been able to pay down or pay off your debt … or is it continuing to climb?

- Do you have more or less free time for yourself or to spend with your f...

5 Reasons Why Most Don’t Become Wealthy & How to Overcome Them [INFOGRAPHIC]

Even though we live in the most affluent country in the world, where most people earn and spend a fortune in the course of their working lifetimes, why is it that the majority ends up dependent on social security, pensions and relatives when they retire?

If a person earning $25,000 dollars per years would just save $2500 dollars per year, ten percent of his income, and invest it carefully to earn a return of ten percent compounded over the course of his working lifetime, the years from age 21...

Motivating Employees by Using Effective Listening Skills

Perhaps the most powerful of all leadership techniques for motivating employees is effective listening. Learning to practice your listening skills until it becomes a habit can do more to improve your relationships at work and at home than perhaps any other single behavior.

Effective listening is essential to motivating employees. If you think about it, you always listen to someone who you value. You listen when your boss speaks to you. You listen when someone who you look up to and respect spe...

Program Your Subconscious Mind for Time Management Success: 4 Mental Techniques Used by Highly Effective People

Time management behaviors are very much a matter of choice and what lies within your subconscious mind. You choose to be efficient or you choose to be disorganized. Effective people choose to focus and concentrate on their highest-value tasks that contribute the most value to their life.

The starting point of overcoming your previous programming and eliminating the mental blocks to time management is for you to make a clear, unequivocal decision to become one of the most effective people you k...