The road to hell is paved with good intentions

<ul><li>The discipline and determination to learn what I needed to know and then apply what I needed to do.</li><li>You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself if you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up.</li><li>Self discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you and makes everything else possible. </li></ul>

Beginning

Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it ,whether you feel like it or not

<ul><li>Successful people make a habit of doing the things that unsuccessful people don't like to do. </li><li>Successful people know the price they have to pay if they want to enjoy greater success and rewards in the future. </li><li>Whatever you do repeatedly soon becomes a habit .And a habit,Once formed, is hard to break. </li></ul>

Common Denominator of Success

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Bad habits are easy to form, but hard to live with, good habits are hard to form, but easy to live with. And as Goethe said "Everything is hard before it's easy".</li><li class="ql-align-justify">The elevator to success is out of order, but the stairs are always open. </li></ul>

The Habit of Self-Discipline

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself .Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else

Circumstances do not make the man; they merely reveal him to himself

Includes sections on self-discipline and personal success; business, sales and finances; and the good life.

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You don’t need to have been born under a lucky star, or with incredible wealth, or with terrific contacts and connections, or even special skills...but what you do need to succeed in any of your life goals is self-discipline. Unfortunately, most people give in to the two worst enemies of success: they take the path of least resistance (in other words, they’re lazy) and/or they want immediate gratification: they don’t consider the long-term consequences of the actions they take today. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life: 1. Your personal goals. 2. Your business and money goals. 3. Your overall happiness. Each of the 21 chapters in this book shows you how to be more disciplined in one aspect of your life, with end-of-chapter exercises to help you apply the “no excuses” approach to your own life. With these guidelines, you can learn how to be more successful in everything you do—instead of wistfully envying others who you think are just “luckier” than you. A little self-discipline goes a long way...so stop making excuses and read this book!

Brian Tracy is Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada and 55 other countries worldwide. As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.Brian has studied, researched, written and spoken for 30 years in the fields of economics, history, business, philosophy and psychology. He is the top selling author of over 45 books that have been translated into dozens of languages.

Brian Tracy

No Excuses!

If you step in a nest of snakes, does it matter which one bites you first?

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The brightest Flames casts the darkest shadows.

Series based on A song of ice and fire books

Five separate factions vie for control of the realm of the late Lord Eddard Stark, while an ancient form of magic, an everlasting winter, and an unearthly army threaten to return, in a classic fantasy novel being adapted for TV as Season 2 of the HBO series A Game of Thrones. Reissue. TV tie-in.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.   A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE: BOOK TWO   In this thrilling sequel to A Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any we have ever experienced.   A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel . . . and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.

George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings (HBO Tie-in Edition)

A Clash of Kings

<ul><li>The difficulty in identifying what is luck, what is skill, and what is risk is one of the biggest problems we face when trying to learn about the best way to manage money.</li><li>Be careful who you praise and admire. Be careful who you look down upon and wish to avoid becoming.</li></ul>

1.Luck & Risk

Some people are born into families that encourage education; others are against it. Some are born into flourishing economies encouraging of entrepreneurship; others are born into war and destitution. I want you to be successful, and I want you to earn it. But realize that not all success is due to hard work, and not all poverty is due to laziness. Keep this in mind when judging people, including yourself.

Letter to his son

<ul><li>As investor Michael Batnick says, “some lessons have to be experienced before they can be understood.” We are all victims, in different ways, to that truth.</li><li>Every decision people make with money is justified by taking the information they have at the moment and plugging it into their unique mental model of how the world works.</li><li>We all do crazy stuff with money, because we’re all relatively new to this game and what looks crazy to you might make sense to me. But no one is crazy—we all make decisions based on our own unique experiences that seem to make sense to us in a given moment..</li></ul>

2.No One's Crazy

<ul><li>If you risk something that is important to you for something that is unimportant to you, it just does not make any sense.</li><li>There is no reason to risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.</li><li>If expectations rise with results there is no logic in striving for more because you’ll feel the same after putting in extra effort.</li><li>There are many things never worth risking, no matter the potential gain.</li></ul>

3.Never Enough

<ul><li>There are books on economic cycles, trading strategies, and sector bets. But the most powerful and important book should be called Shut Up And Wait.It’s just one page with a long-term chart of economic growth.</li><li>Good investing isn’t necessarily about earning the highest returns,because the highest returns tend to be one-off hits that can’t be repeated. It’s about earning pretty good returns that you can stick with and which can be repeated for the longest period of time. That’s when compounding runs wild.</li></ul>

4.Confounding Compounding

Good investing is not necessarily about making good decisions.It's about consistently not screwing up.<ul><li>Getting money is one thing.Keeping it is another.</li></ul>

5.Getting Wealthy Vs Staying Wealthy

You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune<ul><li>“It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important,” George Soros once said, “but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.” You can be wrong half the time and still make a fortune.</li></ul>

6.Tails, You win

Controlling your time is the highest dividend money pays<ul><li>The highest form of wealth is the ability to wake up every morning and say, “I can do whatever I want today.”</li></ul>

7.Freedom

No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are<ul><li>It’s a subtle recognition that people generally aspire to be respected and admired by others, and using money to buy fancy things may bring less of it than you imagine. If respect and admiration are your goal, be careful how you seek it. Humility, kindness, and empathy will bring you more respect than horsepower ever will.</li></ul>

8.Man in the car paradox

Spending money to show people how much you have is the fastest way to have less money<ul><li>Someone driving a $100,000 car might be wealthy. But the only data point you have about their wealth is that they have $100,000 less than they did before they bought the car (or $100,000 more in debt). That’s all you know about them.</li><li>If you spend money on things, you will end up with the things and not the money.</li></ul>

9.Wealth is what you don't see

There is no faster way to feel rich than to spend lots of money on really nice things. But the way to be rich is to spend money you have, and to not spend money you don’t have. It’s really that simple.

<ul><li>Wealth has little to do with your income or investment returns, and lots to do with your savings rate.</li><li>Everyone knows the tangible stuff money buys. The intangible stuff is harder to wrap your head around, so it tends to go unnoticed. But the intangible benefits of money can be far more valuable and capable of increasing your happiness than the tangible things that are obvious targets of our savings.</li><li>Every bit of savings is like taking a point in the future that would have been owned by someone else and giving it back to yourself.</li></ul>

10.Save Money

Every job looks easy when you're not the one doing it

<ul><li>Most people, when confronted with something they don't understand, do not realise they don't understand it because they are able to come up with an explanation that makes sense based on their own unique perspective and experiences in the world , however Limited those experience are. </li><li>The one who's confident he knows what's happening based on what he sees but turns out to be completely wrong because he can't know the stories going on inside everyone else's head ?.....He's all of us. </li></ul>

When You'll Believe Anything

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Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

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Money & Investments

Doing well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money—investing, personal finance, and business decisions—is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do. But in the real world people don’t make financial decisions on a spreadsheet. They make them at the dinner table, or in a meeting room, where personal history, your own unique view of the world, ego, pride, marketing, and odd incentives are scrambled together. In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life’s most important topics.

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund. He is a two-time winner of the Best in Business Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, winner of the New York Times Sidney Award, and a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two kids.

Morgan Housel

The Psychology of Money

<ul><li>People with high self-control tend to spend less time in tempting situations. It's easier to avoid temptation than resist it. </li><li>One of the most practical ways to eliminate a bad habit is to reduce exposure to the cue that causes it. </li><li>Self-control is a short-term strategy, not a long-term one. </li></ul>

The Secret to Self-Control

Temptation bundling is one way to make your habits more attractive. The strategy is to pair an action you want to do with an action you need to do.

Make a Habit Irresistible

Join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior. New habits seem achievable when you see others doing the same every day.

Imitating the Close

When changing your habits means challenging the tribe, change is unattractive. When changing your habits means fitting in with the tribe, change is very attractive .

Imitating the Many

If a behavior can get us approval, respect, and praise, we find it attractive.

Imitating the Power

<ul><li>The most effective form of learning is practice, not planning.</li><li>Habit formation is the process by which a behavior becomes progressively more automatic through repetition.</li><li>The amount of time you have been performing a habit is not as important as the number of times you have performed it. </li></ul>

Walk slowly, but never backward

<ul><li>If you can make your good habits more convenient, you'll be more likely to follow through on them. </li><li>We try to follow a strict diet while we're out to dinner with friends. We try to concentrate while using a smartphone filled with distractions. </li><li>Idea is to create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.</li><li> Want to draw more ? Put your pencils, pens ,notebooks and drawing tools on top of your desk within easy reach. </li><li>Want to exercise? Set out your workout clothes, shoes, gym bag ,and water bottle ahead of time. </li></ul>

The Law of Least Effort

<ul><li>People often think it's very hard to get hyped about reading one page or meditating for one minute or making one sales call. But the point is not to do one thing. The point is to master the habit of showing up. </li><li>As you master the art of showing up , the first two minutes simply become a ritual at the beginning of a larger routine. </li><li>One push up is better than not exercising. One minute of guitar practice is better than none at all . One minute of reading is better than never picking up a book. It's better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all. </li></ul>

Stop Procrastinating By Using The Two-Minute Rule

The more you ritualize the beginning of a process, the more likely it becomes that you can slip into the state of deep focus that is required to do great things

Two-Minute Rule

<ul><li>Sometimes success is less about making good habits easy and more about making that habits hard. </li><li>Using technology to automate your habits is the most reliable and effective way to guarantee the right behaviour. </li></ul>

Make Good Habits Inevitable and Bad Habits Impossible

What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided. <ul><li>Overeating is harmful in the long run but appetizing in the moment.</li><li>Sex - safe or not - provides pleasure right away. Disease and infection won't show up for days or weeks, even years.</li><li>Without bad habits the immediate outcome usually feels good but the ultimate outcome feels bad</li><li>With good habits,it is a reverse : the immediate outcome is an unenjoyable, but the ultimate outcome feels good. </li><li>We are more likely to repeat a behaviour when the experiences is satisfying. </li></ul>

Cardinal Rule of Behavior Change

<ul><li>One of the most satisfying feelings is the feeling of making progress.</li><li>A habit tracker is a simple way to measure whether you did a habit - like marking an X on a calendar.</li><li>Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.</li><li>Anyone can have a bad performance, a bad workout, or a bad day at work. But when successful people fail, they rebound quickly. The breaking of a habit doesn't matter if the reclaiming of it is fast.</li><li>Never miss twice. If you miss one day, try to get back on track as quickly as possible.</li></ul>

Stick with Good Habits Every Day

<ul><li>Pick the right habit and progress is easy. Pick the wrong habit and life is a struggle.</li><li>Boiling water will soften a potato but harden an egg. You can’t control whether you’re a potato or an egg, but you can decide to play a game where it’s better to be hard or soft. </li><li>Habits are easier when they align with your natural abilities. Choose the habits that best suit you.</li><li>Genes do not eliminate the need for hard work. They clarify it. They tell us what to work hard on.</li></ul>

The Truth About Talent

<ul><li>The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities.</li><li>As habits become routine, they become less interesting and less satisfying. We get bored.</li><li>Anyone can work hard when they feel motivated. It’s the ability to keep going when work isn’t exciting that makes the difference.</li><li>Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way. Professionals know what is important to them and work toward it with purpose; amateurs get pulled off course by the urgencies of life.</li></ul>

The Goldilocks Rule: Stay
Motivated in Life and Work

<ul><li>Everything is impermanent. Life is constantly changing, so you need to periodically check in to see if your old habits and beliefs are still serving you.</li><li>A lack of self-awareness is poison. Reflection and review is the antidote.</li><li>Reflection and review is a process that allows you to remain conscious of your performance over time.</li><li>The tighter we cling to an identity, the harder it becomes to grow beyond it.</li></ul>

The Downside of Creating Good Habits

<ul><li>The secret to getting results that last is to never stop making improvements. It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop. It’s remarkable the body you can build if you don’t stop training.</li><li>Small habits don’t add up. They compound.</li><li>That’s the power of atomic habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.</li></ul>

Conclusion

<ul><li>The holy grail of habit change is not a single 1 percent improvement, but a thousand of them. It’s a bunch of atomic habits stacking up, each one a fundamental unit of the overall system.</li><li> One positive change like meditating for one minute or reading one page each day is unlikely to deliver a noticeable difference.</li><li>Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.</li></ul>

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 3 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: • make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy); • overcome a lack of motivation and willpower; • design your environment to make success easier; • get back on track when you fall off course; ...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 10 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field. Learn how to: <ul><li>make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);</li></ul><ul><li>overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;</li></ul><ul><li>design your environment to make success easier;</li></ul><ul><li>get back on track when you fall off course;</li></ul>...and much more. Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

James Clear is the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" He writes about habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement at jamesclear.com. His website receives millions of visitors each month and hundreds of thousands subscribe to his popular email newsletter.His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. Learn more at jamesclear.com

No Excuses!

A Clash of Kings

The Psychology of Money

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