Kindle Notes & Highlights
Push-Up Principle Faith and hope come from a strong spiritual commitment.
I believe that kind of thinking can be one of the biggest mistakes you’ll ever make in your business life.
if you don’t have your spiritual life in order, if you don’t think the Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong, and good or bad, apply to you, then you’re in for a rude awakening somewhere down the road. If you don’t lead a decent moral life — and encourage your people to do the same — I believe you just won’t enjoy long-term success and happiness.
Push-Up Principle It is possible to balance a busy work life with a rich, rewarding family life.
This guy doesn’t buy the philosophy that there aren’t enough hours in the day for both.
My business life changed for the better when I fell in love with my wife again,”
Push-Up Principles Good health is necessary in order to work effectively, and to enjoy the fruits of your efforts.
General George Patton once said, “An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.”
A healthy diet is the single most important aspect of maintaining a healthy body.
Exercise is the number two priority.
Push-Up Principle A leader must be an example of balanced living.
You shouldn’t use organizations, and the people in them, solely as a way to increase your own business.
I believe that if you’re a good salesman, and you believe in what you’re doing for people, you will just naturally find sales “prospects” anywhere you are.
Management Mistake People can’t lead others if they have no clear direction themselves. Leadership Solution Leaders set goals in all areas of their lives.
Push-Up Principle The most successful people are those who set goals early in life.
if you don’t know what you want to do with your life, or what you want to accomplish, you won’t ever establish a working plan of action.
In my heart, I had the goal of becoming financially independent, being able to earn enough so that we wouldn’t always be dreading the monthly bills. I wanted to be able to pursue my own business interests, and not be dependent on anyone else to decide how far I could go. That’s a lot to want,
Push-Up Principle Have specific goals, and a specific plan for reaching them.
1) Have a specific goal; 2) Set a specific time in which to achieve your goal; 3) Develop a plan to achieve your goal; 4) Decide what kind of price you are willing to pay; 5) Write it down; and 6) Think about reaching your goal every day.
Push-Up Principle Discover “The Magic Of 90 Days.”
After you’ve decided on those, it’s important to establish a series of short-term goals that will provide you with day-to-day motivation.
I’ve found that it’s useful for me to set a time frame that gives me enough time to take some serious action, but isn’t so far off into the future that I am tempted to postpone my activity.
I believe in “The Magic Of 90 Days.” Anyone can do anything for 90 days.
It’s just human nature that you need a series of little victories on the way to achieving your big goals.
Push-Up Principle Reward yourself when you achieve goals; punish yourself when you don’t.
But, if the team lost, we’d practice on Saturday.
You should never be satisfied with winning but not improving.
Push-Up Principle The day you start setting goals, you’re a day closer to success.
But continually putting off goal setting is far more likely to result in failure than any event or incident that will happen to you once you’re on your way. The very best advice I can offer on setting goals and making plans is: Do it today.
Push-Up Principle The first step to a goal is a dream.
But before anything else, you’ve got to have a dream.
Your dream is the glue that holds all the effort together.
One of the saddest things I see around me today is that most people have stopped dreaming.
you can become what you dream about. I know it’s tough, but it’s possible. And all most people really need is to know that there’s a chance — an opportunity — for their dreams to come true.
you can’t just sell them a job. People are sick of jobs;
people aren’t really looking for guarantees. All they want is a chance. They don’t want you to just offer them a job, they want you to offer them a dream and the opportunity to make it come true. If you can offer people a chance to do something special with their lives, a chance to believe in something, a chance to dream again, you’ve given them the kind of motivation to succeed that they’ll never have if you just give them a set of duties.
And never underestimate the power of dreaming.
I believe that having a dream to strive for just may be the one quality that gives you that “edge...
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“has his heart set” on something. I’ve always liked...
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Become a dreamer again.
Encourage the dreams of your people.
Once you’ve got a dream, you can set goals, build your plans, and act. But until you start dreaming, what you do in your life may just be action without purpo...
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Push-Up Principle Goals are not just for business, but for all areas of your life.
Sitting down with your family and deciding on family goals can be one of the most rewarding experiences you’ll ever have.
Once you get into a habit of goal-setting, you’ll wonder how you ever managed to accomplish anything before.
Management Mistake Many managers let their fear of failure keep them from achieving real success.
Leadership Solution You must take chances in order to have great success.
Winning big means taking a lot of chances. So what? Isn’t winning worth the risks?
That fear holds people back ten times more often than lack of talent, lack of intelligence, or lack of opportunity.
Push-Up Principle Don’t waste time and energy worrying about things that haven’t happened.
