7 Strategies for wealth & happiness Success is no more than the natural consequence of consistently applying the fundamentals of success to life. If there is one critical ingredient for successful quest for both wealth and happiness, it is DISCIPLINE. Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment, the glue that binds inspiration to achievement. Success follows exactly the same pattern in reverse. If you plan to make 10 calls and you go beyond your quota to 15, you are ahead by 5 phone calls today! Do the same with your correspondence and your savings plan and soon you will see the accumulated fruits of your diligence over a year and eventually over a lifetime. Discipline attracts opportunity. Exciting opportunities invariably come to those who have developed skills and who have the ambition to act. Success is also an elusive notion, a paradox. After all, it is both a journey and a destination. Strategy 1: Unleash the power of goals Like well-defined dream, well defined goals work like magnets. They pull you in their direction. The better you define them, the better you describe them, the harder you work on achieving them, the stronger they pull. A key thought have enough reasons for every goal you have I am going to spend the first half of my life accumulating money. I am going to spend the last half of my life giving it all away. MASSIVE success is the sweetest revenge. Unless you have goals, it is impossible to manage your time effectively. In sales we are taught that there exists only one major time. That’s the time we spend in the presence of a prospect. Any time spent on the way to the prospect or at home, no matter how essential is minor time. The best use of time and money comes from putting maximum value in it. It’s called careful investment for maximum results. Don’t spend major money on minor things and conversely don’t spend minor money on major things. Some people spend a fortune on food for their bodies and very little on food for their minds. Strategy 2: Seek knowledge If you wish to be successful, study success. If you wish to be happy, study happiness. Those who achieve these things don’t do it by accident. It’s a matter of studying first and practice second. There are two ways to gather wisdom. One way is to learn from your own life. The second is to study the lives of others. How much money have you saved in the past six years? None.. Who sold you on that plan?! WHOSE PLAN HAVE YOU BOUGHT?! All leaders are readers! Did you know there are o thousand of books and tapes on how to be stronger, more decisive, a better speaker, a more effective leader, a better lover! Use this knowledge to get better in your field. Think of your reading time as tapping the treasure of ideas time. Become self-educated. Standard education will bring you standard results. Check the income figures of those with a standard education and see if that’s what you want. If it isn’t, if you want more than average, you must become self-educated. There can be a great difference between cost and value. How much does it cost? But he taught me to ask, what is it worth? When I started to base my life on value instead of price, all kinds of things began to happen. Remember: You are what you read! The choice of books and tapes reveals a person’s predominant thoughts, desires and values. Strategy 3: Learn how to change Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job!!!! This business of personal development lasts a lifetime. Think of it this way: most of what you have today you have attracted by becoming the person you are today. Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got. It’s hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. You can never create more time, but you can become more valuable. Then I learned that success and happiness are not values to pursue, they are values to develop. How do I develop an above-average income? Simple become an above average person. Life and commerce are like the seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better! Enthusiasm makes all the difference. Frankly, discipline is the only thing that will do it. It is the only vehicle for real progress. If there is one thing to get excited about, it’s discipline. Inch by inch everything’s a cinch. But if you never take the small steps, no one, including yourself, will trust you with the big ones. Motivation is a mystery. Why does one salesperson see a first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven. It’s part of the mysteries of life. Strategy 4: Control your finances I would suggest that if you had a better plan you would have more money. It’s not how much you allocate but how you allocate. About taxes, don’t pay more than you should. By all means take advantage of the incentives. They were given to you as a reward for channeling your money into areas the government thinks help the economy. Here is an exciting thought. Why not work full time on your job and part time on your fortune. I’m working to become wealthy. I’m not working to pay my bills. Rich people save their money and spend what’s left. Poor people spend their money and save what’s left. It’s the same amount of money, just a different philosophy. Strategy 5: Master time Say no nicely No, I don’t think I can. But if that changes, I’ll give you a call. Because don’t let your mouth overload your back. Your weakness don’t have to harm you if you learn to delegate responsibilities. This too, is part of creative time management. Don’t start your day until you have it finished. Because each day is a priceless mosaic in your lifetime strategy for wealth and happiness. Always plan your day before you start. Strategy 6: Surround yourself with winners Never underestimate the power of influence. The influence of those around us is so powerful, so subtle, so gradual that often we don’t even realize how it can affect us. To avoid wasting time with the wrong crowd you need to ask yourself three fundamental questions - With whom do I spend time? What are they doing to me? Is this association okay with me? Are my present associations helping me grow in the direction I have chosen through goalsetting? Sophisticated people weigh their actions. + Spend more time with the right people. Make an investment in a rich person’s appetite. Take a rich person out for a meal. There’s no telling what you can learn in an hour or two of wealth-oriented talk. Keep the weeds of negative influence from your life. Instead ‘farm’ the seeds of constructive influence. Strategy 7: Learn the art of living well Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want. TIP stands for To Insure Promptness Time, effort and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep it flourishing and growing. How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?! AS LONG AS IT TAKES! Four questions: Why should I try? Why should I not try? Why not me? Why not now?
