The Ultimate Success Formula

The three decisions that control your destiny are:

1. What to focus on?
2. What things mean to you?
3. What to do to create the results you desire?

• By changing any one of these five elements

• It’s not actual pain that drives us, but our fear that something will lead to pain.
• And it’s not actual pleasure that drives us, but our belief—our sense of certainty—that somehow taking a certain action will lead to pleasure.
• We’re not driven by t...

• Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.
• It’s not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
• ...

1. First, we must believe, “Something must change”.
2. Second, we must believe, “I must change it”.
3. Third, we have to believe, “I can change it”.

• Raise your standards and believe you can meet them.
• Develop a sense of certainty that we can and will meet the new standards before we actually do.
• In life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.
• In essence...

1. What to focus on?
2. What things mean to you?
3. What to do to create the results you desire?

• Success is the result of good judgment.
• Good judgment is the result of experience.
• Experience is often the result of bad judgment.
• In order to succeed, you must have a longterm...

• Make decisions often and learn from them.
• When experiencing a problem, ask yourself, “What’s good about this? What can I learn from this?”
• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your...

• If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything.
• The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.
• New experiences trigge...