The Power of Focus
Quotes from the Book
It doesn't matter how fast you can go, it doesn't matter how much passion you have, and it doesn't matter how much energy you put into something. If you don't have a vision and clarity on the destination you want to reach, you'll simply never get there.
Successful people, whether they're working for somebody else or working for themselves, do whatever they do to the best of their ability – as if the boss is watching them every minute of every day.
It doesn't matter where you come from. It only matters where you are and where you want to go.
what if I told you it’s true, you are going faster than ever before, but you may be on a treadmill and not a ladder.
Getting wealthy may not cure every problem, but it sure can cure a lot of them.
Confidence builds and doubt dies when your heart is aligned with your actions.
With text messaging and e-mails buzzing in our pockets, our constant availability for phone calls, and hot new apps and social media on our phones, we are more distracted, more unfocused and more enmeshed in sweating the small stuff than ever before. And this leads to many of us feeling like we're sprinting every day but really not getting anywhere.
Humans are busier now than they've ever been in the history of time. I love technology, but with all the advancements to make our lives easier, it's really just allowed us to go faster.
The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people do the things the unsuccessful people don’t want to do.
You don’t have to add time to your day to learn new habits; you just have to replace the old habits. To do so, you need to recognize the counterproductive routines you’ve fallen into.
What exactly does your life look like when it’s a year in the future and you look back and it was the best year ever?
Protect your peace every day and watch your happiness and joy grow.
When you tap into people’s wants, you stir their emotions, and emotions make decisions.
The people who are afraid to go through the challenge are the ones who stay stuck in their lives.
Successful people live by a different set of rules and success habits and they don’t conform or accept mediocrity.
Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to happen. The 1% broke away from the crowd, and since then the top 1% of earners income has gone up by 128%, while the bottom 90% of earners income has only gone up 15%.
As children we’re taught to stand in line and do what everybody else does. We’re taught to get good grades, follow the crowds, do what’s popular at the time, go to high school, get into a college, then find a job, start a 401K, save our money, and hopefully retire with enough to get us to death without running out.
I don’t want anybody to tell me how to dress, where to live, or even how to raise my kids. I don’t want anybody to tell me where I can eat, how I can function, what I can do with my time, or how much money I can make. I want to be in control so I can make the decisions that empower me, bring me joy, and make me feel alive! And at that very moment, I realized I didn’t want anybody to take that away from me in any area of my life. I had finally found my true “why,” and my mission had never seemed clearer.
It was all because I wanted to be in control. Not a control freak, just in control.
Because I want to be in control.
want my daughter and my son to be able to choose where they want to go in life and have the ability to become their best selves. I want them to live without the worry over money choking them. I want them to know that they’re financially secure, so if they want to be teachers, or astronauts, or be in rock bands, or teach yoga, or anything else, they can. I want them to have the freedom I never felt like I had growing up.
think I know it. I think I know my why. I want to give my kids the choices and the options that I never had when I was a kid.
When you know where you want to go, you’ll start having a filter that will allow you to say no to certain friends, say no to certain obligations, say no to certain opportunities, and say no to certain e-mails. You will know deep down that those things are not contributing to your vision. Once you know where you want to go, you can start taking action steps toward the best year of your life, which will evolve into the best 10 years of your life, and ultimately, into the best rest of your life.
Think about what the best year of your life would look like and get emotional, get engaged, get engulfed, and visualize specific details about what made it so amazing.
Imagine it’s one year from today and when looking back over the past year, you realize that it was the best year of your life. What does that look like to you? What would have had to happen for you to wake up every morning on fire, free of dissatisfaction, and convinced you weren’t wasting your potential? As
Maybe you think it’s time to reinvent yourself completely.
On the flip side, when you have a clear vision for your life, you’ll stop wasting time on the things not serving your dreams, goals, or aspirations. Your actions will have purpose and your hours will be spent achieving those goals. Your procrastination will cease because you’ll know with 100 percent certainty what you cannot put off anything until tomorrow.
what’s crazy about today’s society is that everybody is racing around with “Ferrari brains” but no one has her GPS on!
How fast we can rebound from our failures is a huge determining factor in how quickly we can succeed. When something bad happens, we can either sit and find out why it happened or we can step up and find a solution. The faster we can stand up after getting knocked down, then the faster we can turn our losses into wins.
I would add that successful people have a core set of habits that propel them.
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About Dean Graziosi
About the book
Millionaire Success Habits is a book designed with one purpose in mind: to take you from where you are in life to where you want to be in life by incorporating easy-to-implement "Success Habits" into your daily routine. Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire. This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designed specifically to assist you on your journey to a better you. In these pages, you’ll:
· Drill down deep to identify your “why”—the true purpose that drives you and the real reason you want to prosper · Expose and overcome the “villain within” that’s holding you back · Unlock the single biggest s
Book details
- First published
- 2016
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- Dean Graziosi
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- Nonfiction
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- 4.05 (3k ratings)
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