Know what you want. Clarity is power. And vague goals promote vague results.
Remember that every problem has a solution. Maybe you just can’t see it. Yet.
In this Age of Dramatic Distraction, the performer who focuses the best wins the most.
Before someone will help you, you need to help them.
Become the most passionate person you know. It’ll be contagious.
Know more about your craft/the work you do than anyone who has ever done the work you do in the history of the world.
Join The 5 am Club. Your most valuable hours are 5 am-8 am. They have the least interruptions.
Devote yourself to learning something new about your field of mastery every day. Success belongs to the relentless learners. Because as you know more, you can achieve more.
Remember that when you transform your fitness, you’ll transform your business.
Don’t check your mobile when you’re meeting with another person. It’s rude. And rude people don’t reach world-class.
Every time you do what scares you, you take back the power that you gave to the thing that scared you. And so you become more powerful.
A problem is only a problem if you make the choice to see it as a problem.
Stop being a victim. your business and personal life was made by you. No one else is responsible. To make it better, make better choices. And new decisions.
You can lead without a title. Don’t wait to get a position to stand for excellence, peak quality and overdelivery on every expectation.
Find your own style. Be an original. Every superstar differentiated themselves from The Herd. And marched to their own drumbeat.
Understand that when you play small with your success, you betray your potential. And the birthright you were born under.
Eat less food and you’ll get more done.
As you become more successful, stay really really hungry. Nothing fails like success. Because when you’re successful, it’s easy to stop out-learning + out-OverDelivering + out-thinking and out-executing everyone around you. (Success is Beautiful. And dangerous.)
If you’re not over-prepared, you’re under-prepared.
The only level of great manners to play at is “Exceedingly Polite”. In our world, this alone will make you a standout. And differentiate you in your marketplace.
Remember that the moment you think you’re a Master, you lose your Mastery. And the minute you think you know everything, you know nothing.
To double your results, double your level of execution.
Invest in your personal and professional development. All superstars do.
Get this year’s best Targets of Opportunity down onto a 1 Page Plan. Then review it every morning while the rest of the world sleeps.
You don’t get lucky. You create lucky.
When you push through a difficult project, you don’t get to the other side. You reach The Next Level.
Smile. And remember to inform your face.
Spend time in solitude every day. Your best ideas live there.
Debrief on how you lived out your day every night in a journal. This will not only record your personal history, it will make you uber-clear on what you’re doing right and what needs to be improved.
If you’re not being criticized a lot, you’re not doing very much. Ridicule is the price of ambition.
Develop a monomaniacal focus on just a few things. The secret to productivity is simplicity.
To get the results very few people have, be strong enough to do what very few people are willing to do.
Rest. Recover. It’ll make you stronger.
Buy a smaller TV and build a larger library.
Remember that the bigger the goal, the stronger a person you must become to achieve that goal. So goal-achieving is a superb practice for character-building.
Food fuels your body. Learning feeds your mind.
Don’t ask for respect. Earn it.
Finish what you start. And always end strong.
Breathe.
In business, don’t play to survive. Play to win.
Protect your good name. It’s your best asset.
Remember that words have power. Use the language of leadership versus the vocabulary of a victim.
Give more than you take. The marketplace rewards generosity.
Know that if it’s not messy, you’re not making progress.
Be a hero to a kid.
In business, aim for iconic. Go for legendary. Make history by how awesome you are at what you do.
Please don’t confuse activity with productivity. Many many people are simply busy being busy.
Your doubts are liars. Your fears are traitors. Stop buying the goods they are attempting to sell you.
The best anti-aging remedy in the world is working really hard.
World-Class performers have no plan B. Failure just isn’t an option.
You have the power to change the world-one brave act and one person at a time. Please use it.
Daniel Goleman names the three types of focus and explains them in the Forbes interview:
“Inner” focus refers to self-awareness and self-management: how well we can tune in to our guiding values, for instance, or know our strengths and limits – which in turn gives us a realistic sense of self-confidence — and also handle our distressing emotions so they don’t interfere with getting things done, marshal our positive emotions to stay motivated in working toward out goals, and bounce back from setbacks.
“Other” focus describes how well we attune to people: our empathy, which allows us to understand how people perceive things, how they feel, and what we can do to help them be at their best. And tuning in to others this way provides the basis for skill in competencies like motivating employees, persuasion and influence, negotiation and conflict resolution, and — increasingly important – teamwork and collaboration.
Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I (Brad Isaac) was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working, and before he went on stage, I saw my chance. I had to ask Seinfeld if he had any tips for a young comic. What he told me was something that would benefit me a lifetime…
He said the way to be a better comic was to create better jokes and the way to create better jokes was to write every day. But his advice was better than that. He had a gem of a leverage technique he used on himself and you can use it to motivate yourself—even when you don’t feel like it.
He revealed a unique calendar system he uses to pressure himself to write. Here’s how it works.
Putting your thoughts in writing helps to imprint them more firmly into your subconscious mind.
Also your Winners’ Journal will become a bank of valuable information about yourself. Periodic reading will give you a better understanding of yourself. Each time you review your list of achievements, you will increase your self confidence.
A series of Winners’ Journals from consecutive years can become a history of your life.
20 reasons for writing in your Winners’ Journal:
To set goals
To plan your actions for reaching your goals
To commit yourself to your goals
To define problems
To solve problems
To create new ideas
To clarify your thoughts
To express yourself
To reach your innermost thoughts and feelings
To understand and know yourself
To learn where you are strong and where you are weak
