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Long Term
- 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 focus.
- Often, what seems impossible in the short term becomes very possible in the long term if you persist.
- Realize that the hardest step in achieving anything is making a true commitment-a true decision.
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The Ultimate Success Formula
1. Decide what you want
2. Take action
3. Notice what’s working or not
4. Change your approach until you achieve what you want
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Decisions
- 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...
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Sense Of Certainty
- 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...
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The Three Decisions That Control Your Destiny Are:
- What to focus on?
- What things mean to you?
- What to do to create the results you desire?
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Beliefs
- 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.
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Specific Beliefs
- First, we must believe, “Something must change”.
- Second, we must believe, “I must change it”.
- Third, we have to believe, “I can change it”.
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Long Term Pleasure
- 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...
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Short Summary
The three decisions that control your destiny are:
- What to focus on?
- What things mean to you?
- What to do to create the results you desire?
• By changing any one of these five elements
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Master System:
1. Your core beliefs and unconscious rules
2. Your life values
3. Your references
4. The habitual questions that you ask yourself
5. The emotional states you experience in each moment
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Change
- 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...
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