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because you won’t have to reinvent the wheel.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
To borrow a phrase from the seventeenth-century physician Thomas Moffett, we are “digging our graves with our teeth”
repetition is the mother of skill.
“Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.”
In Unlimited Power, I made it abundantly clear that the most powerful way to shape our lives is to get ourselves to take action.
“Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.”
“The Niagara Syndrome.”
Remember: Success truly is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is the result of experience,
and experience is often the result of bad judgment!
“We will either find a way, or make one.” —HANNIBAL
Billy Joel.
never to leave the scene of a decision without first taking a specific action toward its realization.
PAIN and PLEASURE! Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.
After all, what is procrastination? It’s when you know you should do something, but you still don’t do it. Why not? The answer is simple: at some level you believe that taking action in this moment would be more painful than just putting it off.
“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t life controls you.”
his ultimate pain in life is being second-best at
What are some of the experiences of pain and pleasure that have shaped your life?
Although we’d like to believe it’s our intellect that really drives us, in most cases our emotions—the sensations that we link to our thoughts—are what truly drive us.
IF YOU DON’T HAVE A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE, SOMEONE ELSE DOES
