Mastering Time: Brian Tracy's Ultimate Guide to Effective Time Management

 TIME MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE

The Miracle of Self-Discipline

Time Management: The Brian Tracy Success Library

1) Your ability to develop the habit of self-discipline will contribute more to your success than any other quality of character.

2) Resolve to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

3) Self-discipline is the master key to riches.

4) Success is tons of discipline.

5) Discipline weighs ounces; regret ways tons.

6) Long time perspective is the key to upward social and economie mobility in America.

7) The key is your ability to sacrifice immediate pleasure in the present so that you can enjoy greater rewards in the future.

8) Self-discipline means self-control, self-mastery, and the ability to have "Dinner before desert."

9) Whenever you practice self-discipline, your self-esteem and self- respect go up.

TIME MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE

10) It takes 21 days of resolution and practice to develop a habit of self-discipline.

11) The common denominator of success is that successful people make a habit of doing those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

12) Every exercise of self-discipline strengthens every other discipline at the same time.

13) The discipline of clear thinking: your ability to think clearly can have an enormous positive impact on your life.

14) Take time to think through the critical issues and problems in your life.

15) Practice solitude on a regular basis.

16) Solitude activates your superconscious mind and triggers your intuition.

17) Wisdom is a combination of experience plus reflection.

18) Write down every detail of the problem situation you are facing.

19) Go for a walk for 30-60 minutes to stimulate your creative mind.

20) Continue to question your assumptions. What if they were wrong?

21) The discipline of daily goal setting; setting goals each day will increase your productivity by five and ten times.

22) What do you really want to do with your life?

23) If you had $10 million cash, but only ten years to live, what would you do differently in your life?

24) Imagine that you have no limitations.

25) Buy a spiral notebook and write in it every day.

26) Every day, re-write your top ten goals in the present tense, as though you had already achieved them.

27) The discipline of daily time management: every minute spent in planning saves ten minutes in execution.

28) Make a list of everything you have to do the next day, the night before.

29) Organize the list by priority before starting work.

30) Practice the 80/20 Rule on all your activities.

31) Start on your A-1, most important tasks, first thing in the morning.

32) The discipline of courage: make yourself do what you have to do, and confront your fears rather than avoiding them.

33) Courage is a habit, developed by practicing courage whenever it is required.

34) Emerson: "Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

35) Repeat the words, "I can do it!" over and over.

36) The discipline of excellent health habits: resolve to live to be 100 in superb physical health.

37) The key to a healthy life? "Eat less and exercise more."

38) Develop the discipline of exercising every single day.

39) Eliminate three white poisons: flour, sugar and salt.

40) Get regular medical and dental check-ups.

41) The discipline or regular saving and investing: resolve to get out of debt, stay out of debt, and become financially independent.

42) The key is for you to save 10% and more of your income throughout your life.

43) Begin by saving 1% of your income and discipline yourself so that you live on the other 99%.

44) Delay and defer major purchases for 30 days or more.

45) Investigate before you invest.

46) Pay cash for as many things as possible.

47) "If you cannot save money, the seeds of greatness are not in you." (Clement Stone)

48) The discipline of hard work: develop a reputation for being a hard, hard worker.

49) "The harder you work, the luckier you get." (Thomas Jefferson)

50) Work all the time you work!

51) Start one hour earlier and immediately get to work.

52) Work harder, through your lunch hour, all day long.

53) Work one hour later; be the last to leave.

54) Keep asking, "What is the most valuable use of my time right now?"

55) The discipline of continuous learning: to earn more, you must learn more.

56) Jim Rohn, "Work at least as hard on yourself as you do on your job."

57) Read in your field 30-60 minutes each day.

58) Listen to CDs as you drive from place to place.

59) Attend seminars and take courses given by experts in your field.

60) Work on yourself as if your future depends on it, because it does.

61) The discipline of persistence: your ability to persist in the face of adversity, no matter how you feel.

62) There are two parts of courage: the courage to begin, and the courage to endure.

63) Your persistence is the measure of your belief in yourself.

64) The more you persist, the more you'll tend to believe in yourself and what you are doing.

65) Persistence is actually self-discipline in action.

66) "Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." (Napoleon Hill)

67) The habit of self-discipline virtually guarantees your success in life.

68) With self-discipline, you'll get more done, faster and of higher quality than with any other skill.

69) You will be paid more and promoted faster.

70) You will experience a greater sense of self-control, self-reliance and personal power.

71) With self-discipline, you will have the strength of character to persist over all obstacles until you eventually succeed.