Ready, Set, Go!
by
Brian Tracy, Rafael Badziag
Andrew Phillips, Tracy and Sonya Saywell, Tatyana Zbirovskaya, Cara Heilmann,
Cheryl Wheeler, Ellen McNeill, Joe Moriarty, JW Dicks, Laurie A. Richards, Moana Caroline Aluli Meyer, Nick Nanton, Torsten Mau, Sraddha Prativadi, Leeza Byers, Desiree Aragon Nielson, Glen Jakob Mandlinic, Wynett Isley, Violet Detre, Grace Martins, Don Lawrence, Sherryl Mellott McGuire, Patrick Rahn, Philippa Steel, Jackie Smith, Gary Kieper, Janet McKee, Doug Hanson
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1
PRACTICE THE MASTER SKILL
By Brian Tracy
CHAPTER 2
LIFE LESSONS FROM AN OUTBACK SHEARING SHED
By Andrew Phillips
CHAPTER 3
IMPOSSIBLE IS EASIER THAN YOU THINK
By Rafael Badziag
CHAPTER 4
TEN BUSINESS SUCCESS SECRETS FOR CREATIVES
By Tracy and Sonya Saywell
CHAPTER 5
MY LUCKY POWER OF THE MIND
Tatyana Zbirovskaya
CHAPTER 6
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO MAKE A CAREER CHANGE
By Cara Heilmann
CHAPTER 7
TRANSFORM STRATEGY TO ACTION
—PREPARING FOR SUCCESS
By Cheryl Wheeler, CMC
CHAPTER 8
HOW TO SET AND ACHIEVE GOALS WITH I.M.P.A.C.T.
By Ellen McNeill, CMSC, CGSC, CMC, CSFC, CPC
CHAPTER 9
STEP INTO WELLNESS AND PERSONAL GROWTH
By Joe Moriarty
CHAPTER 10
YOU … THE THOUGHTLEADER® IN YOUR FIELD!
By JW Dicks, Esq.
CHAPTER 11
THE MAGIC OF THE LITTLE PINK SPOON
By Laurie A. Richards
CHAPTER 12
PRACTICE
By Moana Caroline Aluli Meyer
CHAPTER 13
COMMUNICATING YOUR BIG IDEAS: CREATING CONTENT WITH IMPACT
By Nick Nanton, Esq.
CHAPTER 14
"TELL ME HOW YOU WANT TO LIVE!"
By Torsten Mau
CHAPTER 15
THE YOGA OF SUCCESS
—BALANCING BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT FOR PROSPERITY, ACHIEVEMENT AND ABUNDANCE
By Sraddha Prativadi, MD
CHAPTER 16
STOP SETTLING AND START THRIVING
—A FIVE-STEP BLUEPRINT ON HOW TO ACHIEVE CAREER BLISS
By Leeza Byers
CHAPTER 17
THE TORTOISE METHOD
—HOW TO RESET YOUR LIFE FOR GREATNESS
By Desiree Aragon Nielson
CHAPTER 18
SLAVE TO LOVE
By Glen Jakob Mandlinic
CHAPTER 19
PREPARE FOR DEPARTURE – THE ABCs OF WINNING
By Wynett Isley
CHAPTER 20
READY, SET, GO ENJOY YOUR LIFE!
By Violet Detre
CHAPTER 21
A LIFE TO LIVE – NOT TO DIE
By Grace Martins
CHAPTER 22
MENTAL TENACITY
By Don Lawrence
CHAPTER 23
GET UNSTUCK … THEN GO!
By Sherryl Mellott McGuire
CHAPTER 24
SIX STRATEGIES TO BUILD AND GROW AN UNSHAKEABLE BUSINESS, EVEN WITHOUT THE INTERNET
By Patrick Rahn
CHAPTER 25
HOW DFNDRS LEPT INTO BEING IN THREE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GIANT STRIDES
—WHY IT ALL HAPPENED AND WHERE IT IS GOING
By Philippa Steel
CHAPTER 26
THE ART OF MOVING FORWARD
—GET UNSTUCK IN SEVEN STEPS
By Jackie Smith
CHAPTER 27
ENOUGH ABOUT ME, LET’S TALK ABOUT YOU
By Gary Kieper
CHAPTER 28
TEN STEPS TO REGAIN YOUR PERSONAL POWER
By Janet McKee
CHAPTER 29
THE GENESIS OF SUSTAINABLE SUCCESS: ATTRACT IT!
By Doug Hanson
CHAPTER 1
PRACTICE THE MASTER SKILL
BY BRIAN TRACY
THE MASTER SKILL
Your ability to set and achieve goals is the Master Skill of success. A wise man said that “success is goals, and all else is commentary.” A person with clear, written goals makes progress on even the roughest roads, but a person without goals makes no progress on the smoothest road.
UNLOCK YOUR POTENTIAL
This is a wonderful time to be alive. There are almost unlimited opportunities today for creative and determined people to achieve more of their goals than ever before. Regardless of short-term ups and downs in the economy and in your life, we are entering into an age of peace and prosperity superior to any previous era in human history.
Nature doesn’t care about the size of your goals. If you set little goals, your automatic goal-achieving mechanism will enable you to achieve little goals. If you set large goals, this natural capability will enable you to achieve large goals. The size, scope, and detail of the goals you choose to think about most of the time are completely up to you.
TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE
The starting point of goal-setting is for you to realize that you have virtually unlimited potential to be, have, or do anything you really want in life if you simply want it badly enough, and are willing to work long enough and hard enough to achieve it.
The second part of goal-setting is for you to accept complete responsibility for your life, and for everything that happens to you, with no blaming and no excuses.
With these two concepts clearly in mind – that you have unlimited potential and that you are completely responsible – you are now ready to move to the next step, which is to design your future.
CLARIFY YOUR VALUES
One of the most important characteristics of leaders, and of the most successful people in every area of life, is that they know who they are, what they believe in, and what they stand for. Most people are confused about their goals, values and ideals, and as a result, they go back and forth and they accomplish very little.
Life is lived from the inside out. The very core of your personality is your values. Your values are what make you the person you are. Everything you do on the outside is dictated and determined by your values on the inside, whether clear or fuzzy. The greater the clarity you have regarding your values on the inside, the more precise and effective will be your actions on the outside.
What is most important to you in life? What are your values? What do you care about, believe in, and stand for?
ANALYZE YOUR BELIEFS
All improvement in your life comes from changing your beliefs about yourself and your possibilities. Personal growth comes from changing your beliefs about what you can do and about what is possible for you.
Self-limiting beliefs, sometimes based on a single experience or a casual remark, can hold you back for years. Most people have had the experience of mastering a skill in an area where they thought they had no ability, and being quite surprised at themselves. Perhaps this has happened to you. You suddenly realize that your limiting ideas about yourself in that area were not based on fact at all.
The most important belief for you to develop and hold onto is that you are a thoroughly good person, that you have unlimited potential, and that you are destined to be a big success in life. The more you believe these things to be true, the faster they will come true for you.
CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE
Successful people look for the good in every situation. They know that it is always there. No matter how many reversals and setbacks they experience, they expect to get something good out of everything that happens to them. They believe that every setback is part of a great plan that is moving them inexorably toward achieving the great success that is inevitable for them.
If your beliefs are positive enough, you will seek the valuable lesson in every setback or difficulty. You will confidently believe that there are many lessons that you have to learn on the road to achieving and keeping your ultimate success. You’ll therefore look upon every problem as a learning experience. Napoleon Hill wrote, “Within every difficulty or obstacle, there is the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit.”
With this kind of an attitude, you benefit from everything that happens to you, positive or negative, as you move upward and onward toward achieving your goals.
What can you learn or gain from the biggest problems in your life today?
The first step to goal achievement is for you to write it down. A goal that is not in writing is not a goal at all. Everyone who succeeds greatly works from clear, written, specific, detailed goals and plans, reviewed regularly. I personally recommend that you write and rewrite your goals each day, day after day, week after week, and month after month. This programs them deep into your subconscious mind where they take on a life and power of their own.
Continually ask yourself, “How will I measure success in the achievement of this goal? What standards will I set? What benchmarks or scorecards can I use to measure my progress?”
VISUALIZE YOUR GOALS CONTINUALLY
A key part of goal setting is for you to visualize your goal each day as if it were already attained. See your goal vividly in your mind’s eye.
Imagine what it would look like if you had already accomplished it.
Get the feeling that you would have if you were at your goal already.
Imagine the pride, satisfaction, and happiness you would experience if you were already the person you wanted to be, with the goal that you want to enjoy.
Repeat this visualization, combined with the feeling that goes with it, over and over during the day. Each time that you visualize and emotionalize, you program your goal deeper and deeper into your subconscious and superconscious minds. Eventually, your goal becomes a powerful unconscious force motivating and inspiring you day and night.
YOUR MAJOR DEFINITE PURPOSE
Your major definite purpose can be defined as the one goal that is most important to you at the moment. It is usually the one goal that will help you to achieve more of your other goals than anything else you can accomplish. It should have the following characteristics:
1) It must be something that you personally really want. Your desire for this goal must be so intense that the very idea of achieving your major definite purpose excites you and makes you happy.
2) It must be clear and specific. You must be able to define it in words.
You must be able to write it down and know exactly what it is that you want and be able to determine whether or not you have achieved it.
3) It must be measurable and quantifiable. Rather than “I want to make a lot of money,” it must be more like, “I will earn $100,000 per year by (a specific date).”
YOUR MOST VALUABLE ASSET
Your most valuable asset is your earning ability; your ability to apply your talents and skills in the market place. In reality, you could lose your home, your car, your bank account, and your furniture and be left with nothing but the clothes on your back. But as long as your earning ability was intact, you could walk across the street and begin generating a good living almost immediately.
Your earning ability is extremely valuable to you. And it can be either an appreciating asset or a depreciating asset. Your earning ability can grow in value if you continue to invest in it and develop it. It can decline in value if you begin to take it for granted and start to coast on the basis of what you have done in the past.
What one skill, if you developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would help you the most to double your income in the months ahead? Whatever it is, write it down and make a plan to develop that skill.
ACHIEVE YOUR FINANCIAL GOALS
One of your biggest responsibilities in life, something that you and only you are responsible for, is to manage your money, control your finances, and achieve financial independence in the course of your working lifetime.
This is not something that can be left to chance. The acquisition and deployment of money is governed by specific rules, principles, laws, and factors that are immutable and unchanging. Just is if you wanted to learn medicine, mechanics, or law, you would have to study the subject in detail for a long time in order to master it. You must give a lot of thought to money and finances or you will have shortfalls and problems in these areas all your life.
YOUR FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIP GOALS
The quality of your family life and your relationships will determine most of your happiness or unhappiness in life. Your goals in this vital area of your personal life cannot be left to chance.
Stand back and imagine that your family life and relationships were perfect in every way. What would they look like? How would your family life be different from what it is today? Imagine that you could wave a magic wand and create the perfect lifestyle with your family and relationships. What would it look like?
YOUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS GOALS
Your goal should be to enjoy high levels of health, fitness, and energy; to feel terrific about yourself, and to live a long, happy, pain-free life.
The starting point of achieving ideal levels of health and fitness is for you to make a decision to get into the best physical condition of your life, and then to maintain that level of physical conditioning and well-being indefinitely. Without this kind of firm decision, nothing happens. But if you make this kind of decision and stick to it, virtually everything is possible.
Clarity is essential. The greater clarity you have with regard to the person you want to be and the lifestyle you want to enjoy, the easier it is to make the necessary decisions and take the necessary actions to make those goals a reality.
MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS
It is absolutely amazing how much you can accomplish if you break your tasks down into bite-sized pieces, set deadlines, and then do one piece at a time, every single day.
In each area of your life, analyze your activities carefully and select a specific number that, more than anything else, determines your level of success in that
area. Then focus all of your attention, all day long, on that specific number. The very act of focused attention will cause you to perform better in that area, both consciously and unconsciously.
Henry Ford said, “Any goal, no matter how large, can be achieved if you break it down into enough small steps.”
BE PREPARED TO FAIL BEFORE YOU SUCCEED
Successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again – over and over again – before they finally win. Unsuccessful people try a few things, if they try at all, and very soon quit and go back to what they were doing before.
You should expect to fail and fall short many times before you achieve your goals. You should look upon failure and temporary defeat as a part of the price that you pay on your road to success, which you will inevitably achieve.
Identify all the obstacles that stand between you and your goal. Write down every single detail that you can think of that might be blocking you or slowing you down from moving ahead.
ASSOCIATE WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Everything in life and business is relationships. Everything you accomplish or fail to accomplish will be bound up with other people in some way.
Your ability to form the right relationships with the right people at every stage of your life and career will be the critical determinant of your success and achievement and will have an inordinate impact on how quickly you achieve your goals.
The more people you know, and who know you in a positive way, the more successfullyou will be at anything you attempt. One person, at the right time, in the right place, can open a door for you that can change your life and save you years of hard work.
Take every opportunity to network, to meet new people. Look for ways to help them achieve their goals. As Zig Ziglar said, “You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough other people get what they want.”
MAKE A PLAN OF ACTION
Your ability to set goals and make plans for their accomplishment is the “master skill of success.” No other skill will help you more in fulfilling your potential in achieving everything that you are able to accomplish.