The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

by Grant Cardone

There exist only two times for the successful: now and the future. The unsuccessful spend most of their time in the past and regard the future as an opportunity to procrastinate. “Now” is the period of time that successful people utilize most often to create the futures they desire in order to dominate their environments.

Figure out ways to take advantage of the traditional thinking that holds others back.

successful people are willing to put themselves in new and unfamiliar situations.

Make a habit of “reaching up” in all of your relationships—toward people who are better connected, better educated, and even more successful.

Act now and then keep acting with the knowledge that enough actions taken now will create the future.

1. Do not reduce your goals as you write them. 2. Do not get lost in the details of how to accomplish them at this point. 3. Ask yourself, “What actions can I take today to move me toward these goals?” 4. Take whatever actions you come up with—regardless of what they are or how you feel. 5. Do not prematurely value the outcome of your actions.

The vocabulary and mind-set of average people, even those you love, is always the same—be careful, play it safe, don't be impractical, success isn't everything, be satisfied with what you have, life is to be lived, money won't make you happy, don't want so much, take it easy, you don't have experience, you're too young, you're too old—and on and on.

Successful people commit first and figure the rest out later.