FW: No Excuses - The Power of Self Discipline by Brian Tracy
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From: Atul Prakash
Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 8:27 AM
To: valiaall; AmbernathAll
Subject: No Excuses - The Power of Self Discipline by Brian Tracy
Read this book and sharing some portions which I liked.
The book starts with a wonderful quote by Mark Twain:
“There are a thousand excuses for failure but never the good reason.”
Brian starts with a question? Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives, and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority? What is the real “secret of success?”
Most of us want to be successful. Most of us know what we have to do to achieve it and we all intend to do those things “sometime”.
But before we get started, we decide that we need to take a little vacation to a wonderful fantasy place called ‘Someday Island.’ “We say that ‘Someday I’ll read that book. Someday I’ll start that exercise program. Someday I’ll upgrade my skills and earn more money. Someday I’ll get my finances under control. Someday I’ll do all those things that I know I need to do to achieve all my goals. Someday.
Probably 80 percent of the population lives on Someday Island most of the time. They think and dream and fantasize about all the things they are going to do “someday.”
What is the chief topic of conversation on Someday Island? Excuses! They all sit around and swap excuses for being on the island.
They have come down with the disease of “excuses,” which is invariably fatal to success. They all have good intentions, but as everyone knows, “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
The first rule of success is simple: Take yourself out off the island! No more excuses! Do it or don’t do it—but don’t make excuses. Stop using your incredible brain to think up rationalizations and justifications for not taking action. Do something. Do anything. Get on with it! Repeat
to yourself: “If it’s to be, it’s up to me!”
Who Should Read This Book?
This book is written for ambitious, determined people who want to achieve everything that is possible for them in life. It is written for people who are “hungry” to do more, to have more, and to be more than they ever have been before.
Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve it, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above
the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.
Hope it motivates you to act.
Best,
Atul
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