The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life

by Craig Ballantyne

The 5th Pillar: The Big Deadline, or the Most Important Pillar of Them All

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If you want to aggressively pursue success, take your deadline and cut it in half.

There is nothing as powerful as the urgency of a deadline—set with meaningful consequences—to finally get you to take action.

Chapter Eighteen: How to Use the 5 Pillars in Real Life

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Step #1 – Planning: Limit the Meeting to the Right People

Step #2 – Accountability: The Meeting Must Have a Very Clear Leader

Step #3 – Social Support: Stay Focused

Step #4 – Incentives: Have a Measurable Outcome (M/O)

Step #5 – The Big Deadline: End with a Plan and Give People Specific Assignments

The Perfect Foundation for Success

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“Be as kind to yourself as possible,” Epictetus said. “Do not measure yourself against others or even against your ideal self. Forgive yourself over and over again. Then try to do better next time. Pursue the good ardently, but if your efforts fall short, accept the results and move on.”

Fail forward, learn your lessons, move on, and remember that each second ticking away on the clock takes you further away from your mistakes of the past. You can’t change them, but you can leave them behind. Don’t dwell on the past.

Concentrate on What Counts

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The NEW Law of Attraction

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Author Napoleon Hill’s famous words rang true: “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

Every day you must take action that is congruent with your big goals and dreams.

How to Focus On What Really, REALLY Matters

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We must lose our desires to escape into fantasy, alcohol, and mindless pleasures each night. We must focus on being present, deeply present, with those around us who matter.

Having your vision will lift a tremendous burden from your shoulders. It keeps you focused and reminds you what is right for you in the long run and allows you to make decisions quickly and easily.

Step #1 – Write a First Draft

Step #2 – Share Your Vision

Step #3 – Re-Write the Final Version of Your Vision

The Truth About Setting Goals

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Goal setting is not fantasy. It is about adding deadlines on your dreams, accepting ownership of your future, and identifying the actions you must take.

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1. The Health Goal

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Anybody who has ever experienced poor health knows just how vital good health is to productivity and happiness. Without good health, it can feel like nothing else matters.

When it comes to choosing a health goal, think about all the areas you could improve that would enrich your life.

2. The Wealth Goal

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When setting process goals for wealth, try creating a three-account system. This system forces you to think about your money as being in three funds: your expenses account, your savings account, and your investment account.

3. The Social Self Goal

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You might be tempted to skip out on setting goals for improving your social self. Don’t make that mistake. You will notice that each of your goals supports the others, and that the actions you take will get you closer to more than one of them. This is important as it reiterates just how central and inter-connected the actions you take are to your overall success in life.

4. The Personal-Enrichment Goal

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your personal enrichment goals allow you to enrich your mind and your soul…rewards that often prove to be the most satisfying.

When You Should (and Shouldn’t) Give Up

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The key is to never, ever give up on what is important to you.

When you are working towards a grand vision, you can’t afford to waste time or sacrifice energy to other endeavors.

You must stay strong, controlling what you can, coping with what you can’t, and concentrating on what counts.

Your Perfect Day Formula Revealed

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This proven success system has walked you through what really matters, motivating you to take action on the biggest priority in your life, helping you achieve your goals faster than ever, and showing you how to create automatic actions that get you big and bold results every day. It all starts with your magical fifteen minutes in the morning and grows from there.

“The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be,” Epictetus said.

how to get extraordinary results in every area of life

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Instead, all you need to do is reserve a time to have your big breakthroughs at my next Perfect Life Workshop.