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“Anytime you stop striving to get better, you’re bound to get worse.”
Refuse to allow a weakness or a lack of ability in any area to hold you back. Everything is learnable.
you can learn whatever skills you need to be more productive and more effective.
Three Steps to Mastery First, read in your field for at least one hour every day.
Get up a little earlier in the morning and read for thirty to sixty minutes in a book or magazine that contains information that can help you be more effective and productive at what you do.
Second, take every course and seminar available on the key skill...
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The average car owner sits behind the wheel 500 to 1,000 hours each year while driving from place to place. Turn driving time into learning time.
The more you learn and know, the more confident and motivated you feel.
you can build your mental muscles with mental exercises.
there is no limit to how far or how fast you can advance except for the limits you place on your own imagination.
Identify the key skills that can help you the most to achieve better and faster results.
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
Between where you are today and any goal or objective that you want to accomplish, there is one major constraint that must be overcome
study the task and identify the limiting factor
focus all of your energies on alleviating that single choke point.
The accurate identification of the limiting factor in any process and the focus on that factor can usually bring about more progress in a shorter period than any other single activity.
Your key constraint can be something small and not particularly obvious. Sometimes you have to make a list of every step in a process and examine every activity to determine exactly what is holding you back.
have the honesty to look deeply into yourself for the limiting factor or limiting skill that sets the speed at which you achieve your personal goals.
Behind every constraint or choke point, once it is located and alleviated successfully, you will find another constraint or limiting factor.
Starting off your day with the removal of a key bottleneck or constraint fills you with energy and personal power.
Often, alleviating a key constraint or limiting factor is the most important frog
If they don’t take charge of their lives and put the pressure on themselves, they can end up waiting forever.
Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call these people “leaders.”
To reach your full potential, you must form the habit of putting the pressure on yourself
Lead the Field See yourself as a role model. Raise the bar on yourself.
Make a game of starting a little earlier, working a little harder, and staying a little later. Always look for ways to go the extra mile, to do more than you are paid for.
You build up or pull down your reputation with yourself with everything you do or fail to do.
Create Imaginary Deadlines One of the best ways for you to overcome procrastination and get more things done faster is by working as though you had only one day to get your most important jobs done.
You will become a high-performance, high-achieving personality.
bit by bit you will build the habit of rapid task completion
Once you’ve set yourself a deadline, stick to it and even try to beat it.
Write out every step of a major job or project before you begin. Determine how many minutes and hours you will require to complete each phase. Then race against your own clock. Beat your own deadlines. Make it a game and resolve to win!
Most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis.
Your version of events largely determines whether these events motivate or de-motivate you, whether they energize or de-energize you.
To keep yourself motivated, you must resolve to become a complete optimist.
Control Your Inner Dialogue Your level of self-esteem, how much you like and respect yourself, is central to your levels of motivation and persistence.
As Viktor Frankl wrote in his bestselling book Man’s Search for Meaning, “The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Refuse to complain about your problems. Keep them to yourself. As speaker-humorist Ed Foreman says, “You should never share your problems with others because 80 percent of people don’t care about them anyway, and the other 20 percent are kind of glad that you’ve got them in the first place.”
optimists have four special behaviors, all learned through practice and repetition.
Third, optimists always look for the solution to every problem. Instead of blaming or complaining when things go wrong, they become action oriented.
And the more positive and motivated you feel, the more eager you will be to get started and the more determined you will be to keep going.
Keep your mind positive by accepting complete responsibility for yourself and for everything that happens to you.
Refuse to criticize others, complain, or blame others for anything.
Resolve to make progress rather than excuses. Keep your thoughts and your energy focused forward, on what you can do right now to im...
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Technology can be your best friend or your worst enemy.
exercising regularly and meditating daily to keep centered while using no technology at all. Despite turning off all his devices, he never misses an important message.
“I realized that, just because somebody sends me an e-mail, it does not mean that they own a piece of my life.”
“But don’t you have to stay plugged into technology to keep current with the news?” I tell them, “If it is really important, someone will tell you.”
Use your technological tools to regularly remind yourself of what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.
Technology can be a simple way to get control of your communications, your time, and even your emotions.
