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A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals

by Brian Tracy

“Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”

BRIAN TRACY

BIG IDEA
“I Am Responsible”

FROM THE BOOK

“Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be.

This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person. Personal responsibility is the preeminent trait of leadership and the wellspring of high performance in every person in every situation.

Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going.

This decision to accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses, is absolutely essential if you want to double your income and double your time off. From now on, no matter what happens, say to yourself, ‘I am responsible.’”

Brian's Notes

Can I get a chorus of “Amen”s and “Hallelujah”s, please?!?

(Thank you.)

If you haven’t noticed, this is RULE #1 for success. The willingness to take 100% responsibility for our lives. The willingness to be response-able. To be pro-active and not re-active. To have an internal rather than an external locus of control. To be a creator and not a victim.

If we want to enjoy life and expand into our highest potential, it’s clear we’ve gotta stop our criticizing, blaming, complaining and overall whining and eliminate all the “if-onlys and what-ifs.”

Starting now.

Sound good? Sweet.

Big Ideas

01: “I AM RESPONSIBLE”

02: EVERYTHING IS HARD

03: ZERO-BASED THINKING

04: FLEXIBILITY:

05: EVERY MINUTE COUNTS

“Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.”

ORISON SWETT MARDEN

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