Lessons from Better than Good by Zig Ziglar
3 Most Important Resources:
Time
Talent
Treasure
The more of your time, talent, and treasure you invest in your passion, the more you will fight for it, defend it, and protect it from everyone and everything that would attempt to steal it from you.
Time, Talent and Treasure are the only resources that we have.
Inspiration is caught better than it is taught.
Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny!
Joe Sabah: ÂYou donÂt have to be great to start. But you do have to start to be great.Â
Thomas Edison: ÂMany of lifeÂs failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Â
Keep a picture of the goal in sight.
Motivation gets you going, but habit gets you there.
Many people never find their true calling in life because they donÂt measure opportunities against purpose.
Your career is what you are paid for; your calling is what you are made for.
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“Ninety-five percent of everything that you think, feel, do, and achieve is the result of habit.” Brian Tracy
In Brian Tracy’s life changing book,
Million Dollar Habits, he says, “Most psychologists agree that fully ninety-five percent of everything you think, feel, and do will be determined by your habits. The key to becoming a great person, and living a great life, is for you to develop the habits of success that lead inevitably to your achieving everything that is possible for you.” Your habits will always determine the level of success that you will be capable of achieving. Brian also lays out seven powerful steps to forming a new habit.
1. MAKE A DECISION.
Decide clearly that you are going to begin acting in a specific way one-hundred percent of the time. For example, if you decide to rise early and exercise each morning, set your clock for a specific time; when the alarm goes off, immediately get up, put on your exercise clothes, and begin your exercise session.
2. NEVER ALLOW AN EXCEPTION.
Do not make exceptions to your new habit pattern during the formative stages. Don’t make excuses or rationalizations. Don’t let yourself off the hook. If you resolve to get up at six a.m. each morning, discipline yourself to get up at six a.m. every single morning until this becomes automatic.
3. TELL OTHERS.
Inform people around you that you are going to begin practicing a particular behavior. It is amazing how much more disciplined and determined you will become when you know others are watching you to see if you have the willpower to follow through on your resolution.
4. VISUALIZE YOURSELF.
In your mind’s eye, see yourself performing or behaving in a particular situation. The more often you visualize and imagine yourself acting as if you already have the new habit, the more rapidly this new behavior will be accepted by your subconscious mind and become automatic.
5. CREATE AN AFFIRMATION.
Repeat the affirmation over and over to yourself. This repetition dramatically increases the speed at which you develop the new habit. For example, you can say something like, “I get up and get going immediately at six o’clock each morning!” Repeat these words the last thing before you fall asleep. In most cases, you will automatically wake up minutes before the alarm clock goes off, and soon you will need no alarm clock at all.
6. RESOLVE TO PERSIST.
Keep practicing the new behavior until it is so automatic and easy that you actually feel uncomfortable when you do not do what you have decided to do.
7. REWARD YOURSELF.
Most important, give yourself a treat of some kind for practicing the new behavior. Each time you reward yourself, you reaffirm and reinforce the behavior. Soon you begin to associate, at an unconscious level, the pleasure of the reward with the behavior. You set up your own force field of positive consequences that you unconsciously look forward to as the result of engaging in the behavior or habit that you have decided upon.
“We first make habits, and then our habits make us.” John Dryden
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Today Matters
Changing your life and habits is as simple as changing what you do today. In John Maxwell's powerful book
Today Matters he explains the importance of today. You can not expect the tomorrows of your life to change if you are not willing to change your todays. Most people do not believe that today matters. If people believed that today matters, they would be less likely to skip their workout, or to skip quality time with their children and spouse.
We have all said on more occasions than we would like to admit, I'll just exercise tomorrow, I'm too tired and skipping one day won't make a difference. You must fire your old way of thinking. What you do today is going to affect your tomorrow. As a matter of fact, the next decision that you make will be the most important decision that you have ever made. The next decision you make is the most important decision you will ever make because it could possibly be the last decision that you make. You could put this book down walk out the door and get run over by a car. TODAY MATTERS. We must value our todays by firing our old habits and routines.
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