What if you you stop just casually waiting for success happen to you and instead make it actually happen by yourself? Most of us treat success as an option, luck or miracle that happens to some and doesn't to others. Yet, when we stop treating success as an option and instead start treating it as our duty, as our own responsibility and obligation, that's when we will start living up to our full potentil.

Treat Success As You Duty

Ware up! No one is going to save you

Sounds interesting right? So 10X rule is quite straightforward- 10 times thinking and 10 times taking actions. In other words, you need to have a broad positive mindset as well as take 10 times more actions than anyone else would do. The bottom line here is that to succeed you have to be willing to do what others are unwilling to do

10X Rule

Never reduce the target . Instead, increase actions

Constantly being a crybaby, whiner and making a victim out of yourself - will not help you at all to make any changes in your life. You will truly start making progress and tangible changes in your lifestyle when you will start taking 100% control over your mindset, thoughts, decisions, reactions and actions; because ultimately they are indeed withing your control.

Take Control Over Your Life 

The main reason why most of the times we feel frustrated and give up on our goals is that we underestimate the amounts of actions, energy and time required to achieve it. Consequently, we feel discouraged and disappointed when we can't achieve the goals we set; we label those goals unattainable or unreasonable and either ultimately give up on them or reduce them

Why We Quit Our Goals 

There are 4 degrees of action : 1 - doing nothing, 2 - retreating, 3 - taking normal levels of actions, 4 - taking massive actions. Well just like their names suggest, first degree of action is literally when you don't do anything, second one is when you avoid taking action ultimately retreating. Third degree owhen you take average amount of actions, buy it also creates mediocre results too! Finally 4th degree is when you take a lot of actions that will create outstanding results.

4 Degress Of Action 

Once you match your mindset with the right purpose, you will start taking 10X actions - and find yourself simultaneously propelled into more places than you ever thought possible.

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used to accomplish someone else's

The problem with setting goals that are too low or average is that they won't motivate you to execute needed actions to achieve them; hence, set bigger 10X goals (yet stay realistic) because they will encourage you to take more action because you are capable of much more than you are doing now.

Set 10X Goals 

Ask yourself how close are you to your full capacity

It's an incredible book for anyone out there who strives for success in their life, and overall if you've been waiting for something that will kick your butt to start taking action, then it's the right book for you ^^ Here are some of my main take-aways from the book, hope you find them  useful ^^

Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. This 4th degree, also know as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichŽs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. <ul> <li>Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets</li> <li>Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity</li> <li>Discover the time management myth</li> <li>Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeed</li> <li>Know the exact formula to solve problems</li> </ul> Extreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Instead of behaving like everybody else and settling for average results, take Massive Action with The 10 X Rule, remove luck and chance from your business equation, and lock in massive success.

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Grant Cardone is a world-renowned entrepreneur, author, speaker, investor, and coach. He owns and operates seven privately held companies, and a private equity real estate firm, Cardone Capital, with a multifamily portfolio of assets worth over $4 Billion. He is featured on Season 2 of Discovery Channel's Undercover Billionaire, where he takes on the challenge of building a million-dollar business in 90 days. Grant is also a New York Times bestselling author of 11 business books, including The 10X Rule.Cardone uses his massive 15-million plus following to give back via The Grant Cardone Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to mentoring underprivileged and troubled youth in financial literacy and entrepreneurship - especially those without a father figure.

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