• 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...

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

• 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.
• ...

• 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...

• 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...

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

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

• 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...