This week I read for the first time 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself:
Change Your Life Forever.
The Author of 100 Ways to Motivate Others Steve Chandler, again proves that sometimes the simplest ideas make the most sense.
Until you value your time more than you value your money, you will never be truly wealthy.
Most people look at their bank accounts with great attention and assess how much money they have to spend, to invest, and to give away… But, they don’t look at their time the same way, and end up wasting this incredibly valuable resource.
The three deadliest words in business are, “got a minute?”
A lot of men and women hoping to generate profits online are often limited to working for only a few hours per day or less. If you are working a day job and are frustrated that you can’t spend additional time becoming financially free, I’ve some good news for you.
Have you any idea what’s even far better than having additional time to work? Getting just as much done as possible with the time you are doing have available.
Associated with that if you are not targeted and effective throughout a short period of the time, then having all day long would just imply more squandered time.
Like a mentor of mine once said, “If you cannot earn a living in your spare time, you can’t generate profits full-time.” Read more
Time management is about making the most effective use of your time and working smarter, not harder. It requires planning, and then sticking to the plan.Which in turn requires discipline day in and day out.
Thomas A. Edison once said “Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
According to the Pareto principle or 80/20 rule, 80 per cent of results come from 20 per cent of effort. That means that of all the things you do, 20 per cent is vital and 80 per cent doesn’t contribute much. Just think of how much you would achieve if you focused more effort on the 20 per cent that really matters! Read more
The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod is, quite simply about planning and living your life before you address your life situation.
Though he accounts for all lifestyles and schedules, Hal recommends taking 60 minutes, in the morning, on activities that bring peace and clarity to your life. The Life S.A.V.E.R.S. are Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, Scribing (Journaling).
He recommends the morning because the morning is a time when nothing has happened yet to ruin your day. It’s also a time of far fewer distractions. Read more
The strategies in this book basically help you condense what you would do in 12 months into a 12 week period.
Applying “The 12 Week Year” Strategy
We have just started using it in our business seriously, we played around with it for the first month. Now have read this book twice each. There is a stark difference in our focus from before reading the book and of how we achieve our goals.
Small actions translate to big results. Getting started is the only way to achieve progress and improve from our current state.
In the book, you learn to be in control of our life, gain confidence and courage to do the things we have put off for too long. Read more