THE POWER OF FOCUS Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen Les Hewitt
Part 1
“The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might of the force of habit-and must understand that practices are what create habits. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help his achieve the success he desires.” J. Paul Getty
Research clearly indicates that three of the biggest challenges facing business people today are: time pressures, financial pressures, and the struggle to maintain a healthy balance between work and home.
Learn to maximize your income, and at the same time enjoy a healthier, happier, well-balanced lifestyle.
It takes a real commitment to create positive transformation.
The main reason most people struggle professionally and personally is simply lack of focus. They procrastinate or allow themselves to be easily distracted and interrupted. Now you have the opportunity to be different. The only purpose of this book is to inspire you to take action. That’s it, pure and simple.
Chapter #1 Your Habits Will Determine Your Future
Life just doesn’t happen to you. It’s all about choices and how you respond to every situation. If you are in the habit of continually making bad choices, disaster often occurs. Your everyday choices ultimately determine whether you end up living with abundance or living in poverty.
Consistent choices lay the foundation for your habits. You need to identify your bad habits and learn how to change them.
SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE SUCCESSFUL HABITS – UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DON’T!
What is a habit? Simply stated, a habit is something you do so often it becomes easy. In other words, it’s a behavior that you keep repeating. If you persist at developing a new behavior, eventually it becomes automatic. The great news is that you can reprogram yourself any time you choose to do so. If you’re struggling financially, this is important to know!
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Let’s say you want to be financially independent. Doesn’t it make sense to check your money-making habits? Most people dabble when it comes to growing their money. They are inconsistent.
You must adopt a no exceptions policy! In other words, you commit to your better financial future every single day. It’s what separates the people who have from the people who don’t have.
If you want to distance yourself from the masses and enjoy a unique lifestyle, understand this-your habits will determine your future.
Successful people don’t drift to the top. It takes focused action, personal discipline and lots of energy every day to make things happen. The habits you develop from this day forward will ultimately determine how your future works out. Rich or poor. Healthy or unhealthy. Fulfilled or unfulfilled. Happy or unhappy, it’s your choice, so choose wisely.
Your Habits Will Determine Your Quality of Life
To be truly rich includes not only financial freedom, but developing rich meaningful relationships, enriching your health, and enjoying a rich balance between you career and your personal life.
THE RESULTS OF YOUR BAD HABITS USUALLY DON’T SHOW UP UNTIL MUCH LATER IN LIFE
More people than ever are living for immediate gratification. They buy things they can’t really afford and put off payments as far down the road as possible. Cars, furniture, appliances, entertainment systems, or the latest “toy,” just to name a few. People in the habit of doing this have a sense of playing catch-up all the time. There’s always another payment next month. This often results in working longer hours or taking an additional job just to make ends meet, creating even more stress.
Taken to the extreme, if your expenses constantly exceed your income, you will have an ultimate outcome. It’s called bankruptcy! When you develop a chronic bad habit, life will eventually give you consequences. And you may not like the consequences. Here’s what you need to really understand: Life will still give you the consequences. Whether you like it or not isn’t the issue. The fact is, if you keep on doing things a certain way you will always get a predictable result. Negative habits breed negative consequences. Successful habits create positive rewards. That’s just the way life is.
If you want to enjoy longevity, you must have healthy habits. Practicing good nutrition, exercising and studying longevity play a major role here. The reality. Most of the population in the Western world is overfed, overweight, under-exercised and undernourished. How would you explain that?
When it comes to money, your bad habits may lead you to a never-ending cycle of work in your later years, when you’d rather be enjoying more time off for fun.
YOU CAN TURN NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES INTO POITIVE REWARDS – SIMPLY BE CHANGING YOUR HABITS NOW.
Developing Successful Habits Takes Time
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Imagine if you only changed four habits every year. Five years from now you would have twenty positive new habits. Now, here’s the thing-would twenty positive new habits make a difference in your results? Of course. Twenty successful habits can bring you all the money you want or need, wonderful loving relationships, a healthier and more energized physical body, plus all sorts of new opportunities. And what if you created more than four new habits every year? Think of the possibilities!
Up to 90 percent of our normal behavior is based on habits.
Many of our daily activities are simply routines. From the time you get up in the morning until you retire at night, there are hundreds of things you do the same way. The sum total of these habits determines how your life operates. However, with too much routine, complacency sets in and life becomes boring. We settle for less than we are capable of. Here’s the point: Your everyday normal behavior has a lot to do with the results in your life. If you’re not happy with these results, something has to change.
QUALITY IS NOT AN ACT. IT IS A HABIT.
By systematically improving one behavior at a time you can dramatically improve your overall lifestyle.
If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got!
Be aware of the habits that are not working for you!
Make a list of all the habits that keep you unproductive. Until you clearly understand what is holding you back, it’s difficult to create more productive habits. Another way to identify your unproductive behavior is to ask for feedback.
Your Habits and Belief Systems are a Product of Your Environment
We need to replace disempowering ones with empowering ones.
The only prerequisite is that you must commit to change.
How to Change Bad Habits
Study the Habits of Successful Role Models
What if you were to interview one successful person every month? Take him or her out to breakfast or lunch and ask lots of good questions about their disciplines routines and habits. What do they read? What clubs and associations do they belong to? How do they schedule their time? If you listen well and take good notes, you’ll have a wealth of powerful ideas in a very short time. And if your request is sincere truly successful people are happy to share their ideas. They enjoy the opportunity to be a coach to people who are genuinely interested in improving their lives.
The trouble is, most people won’t ask. Another way to study successful people is to read their autobiographies and biographies. Another habit is to listen to motivational and educational audiotapes when are driving, walking, or exercising. All this terrific information is out there waiting for you. So feast on it, and watch your awareness soar. Pretty soon, if you apply what you learn, your income will soar
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too.
All the books you haven’t read and all the tapes you haven’t listened to won’t help you!
DEVELOP THE HABIT OF CHANGING YOUR HABITS
People who are rich in every sense of the word understand that life is a leaning experience. It never stops. Learn to constantly refine your habits. There’s always another level to reach for, no matter how good you are right now. When you constantly strive to improve, you build character. You become more as a person, and you have more to offer. It’s an exciting journey that ultimately leads to fulfillment and prosperity.
Life will always give you consequences related to your actions.
THE SUCCESSFUL HABITS FORMULA
1) CLEARLY IDENTIFY YOUR BAD OR UNPRODUCTIVE HABITS
2) DEFINE YOUR NEW SUCCESSFUL HABIT
3) CREATE A THREE-PART ACTION PLAN.
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