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“There is maximum profit and opportunity in maximum fear and pessimism.”
“A real leader isn’t somebody who develops the most followers; a real leader is somebody who develops the most leaders.”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
“You get paid for bringing value to the marketplace, and if you’re not very valuable you don’t make much money.”
Time on a job or years at a specific occupation does not increase the inherent value of that job being done.
“Don’t bring your needs to the marketplace, bring your skills.”
“Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job you can make a living, but if you work hard on yourself you’ll make a fortune.” — Jim Rohn
Strive to become a better person, and, instead of comparing yourself to others, differentiate. The goal is to be slightly better than who you were the day before. The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
“Time is more valuable than money. You can always get more money, but you can never get more time.”
Here are places where you will reliably find opportunities to increase your value and stand out against your competition. Expertise: Study your industry, learn from your competitors. Productivity: What and how much you get done. Efficiency: How you get done what you get done. Multiplication: Getting things done by means other than manual labor. Influence: What you can persuade others to get done. Celebrity Status: How well you are known by your target audience. Reputation: What others know and think about you. Vision: What you see that others don’t. Personality: How you treat others and how
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Awareness: Knowing your strengths and what you’re the best at. Masterminding: Surrounding yourself with those you can learn from.
“Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.” — Unknown
Yes, to build wealth you first must build a wealth of knowledge. You need new information, new wisdom, and new ideas to take your business to a new level, but the power lies in how fast you can implement the right information into your daily routines. The right information is only part of the equation. The real power lies in implementation.
The mature learner is very deliberate with what he studies and what he puts to mind. Achievers focus on listening to something until they’ve adopted it into their daily agenda and have experienced increased results. Once they’ve seen progress, they move on to the next skill.
Knowledge is not power. It’s what you do with what you know that leads to mastery. Action is the only thing that will ultimately determine your success.
Start Small:
“If you have more than three priorities, you don’t have any.” — Jim Collins
Reflect Along The Way:
Challenge Yourself to Teach it to Others:
Be patient:
“The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn’t mean college or university.”
If you’re only driven by money, it makes it difficult to build a lifestyle and live life on your terms. So you must do both, make money and live life on your terms,
He discovered that there are only four groups of people: 3% Are Wealthy
27% Are Financially Comfortable —
55% Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck —
15% Are Further In Debtors
You must first realize it’s not the money that will solve your problems.
Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Personal growth solves problems. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.
The 4 W’s to Lifestyle Satisfaction: What do you do?
Who do you do it with?
When you do it, and when you don’t?
Where do you work?
If you are not satisfied with your income, let me give you some straightforward tactical tips that can be used right away. Stop doing what you’re doing:
Don’t let money define you:
Start prioritizing your profits:
Start placing a higher value on your time:
It’s okay to say NO:
Proximity is power:
Lower your excuses:
Shift your focus from victim to leader:
“The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life, is
the moment you can change anything in your life.”
The difference between ordinary income and extraordinary income is...
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“Success rewards implementation, not knowledge.”
Option Number 1: Abandon entrepreneurship.
Option Number 2: Figure it out and make it work.
“If you want to become a millionaire, talk to billionaires -you’ll get there quicker.”
I realized a smart person learns from their mistakes, as all successful people do, but those who operate at a world class level learn from other peoples mistakes so they can shorten their learning curve by learning from them and not wasting as much time making the same ones.
“Progress is the ultimate motivation.”
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