I.

The principles Always work if you work the principles

II. You can’t hire someone else to do your pushups for you
III. How to read this book
A. Reread-repetition makes it a natural way of thinking
B. True learning only occurs when you assimilate and apply the new information,
when there is a change in behavior
IV. A Warning
A. I have always done the best I could with what I knew at the time
B. Now I’m going to learn more
V. The Fundamentals of Success
A. Take 100% responsibility for your life
1. 100% Responsible for everything
a) If I realize that I created everything that got me where I am today, I
can recreate on uncreate at will
2. I have to give up all of my excuses
a) What did I do to create that? How did I get them to act this
way?what was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say
or not say? What do I do or not do to create that result? What do I
need to do differently to get the result that I want?
b) Event plus response equals outcome
c) So many people have overcome the limiting factors, so it can’t be
the limiting factors that limit you
d) I must change my thinking, my images in my head, my behavior
and my communication
e) Everything that I think say and do needs to be intentional and
inline with my purpose, my values and my goals
3. If you don’t like your outcomes, change your responses
4. Everything you experience today is the result of the decisions that you
have made in the past
a) You only have control of the thoughts you think, the images you
visualize, and the actions you take
5. If you keep on doing what you have always done, you’ll keep on getting
what you have always got
a) The day you change your responses is the day your life will get
better
6. I have to give up blaming
7. You have to give up complaining
8. I’m complaining to the wrong person
a) Replace complaining with making requests and taking action
9. You either create or allow everything that happens to you
10. Yellow Alerts
a) You always receive advanced warnings of what will happen to you
 b) We pretend not to see the warning signs because it is
uncomfortable to confront them
11. Life becomes much easier
12. It’s simple
13. Simple isn’t necessarily easy
a) Ask people I know for feedback. Is what I’m doing working? Could
I be doing better? Is there something I should be doing that I am
not? Is there something I am doing that I should stop doing? What
am I doing that is limiting myself?
b) I cannot improve my life without feedback
c) Once I have my feedback I know what I can change
d) Do more of what is working, do less of what isn’t, and try new
methods
14. Pay attention, your results don’t lie
B. Be clear why you are here
1. What were you put on this earth to do
2. Some personal life purpose statements
3. Everything you do should be an expression of your purposes
4. What’s the why behind everything you do
5. Your inner guidance system is your joy
6. Staying on purpose
a) Read purpose everyday, perhaps make a vision board and look at
it everyday
C. Decide what you want
1. Early childhood programming often gets in the way of what we want
2. Don’t live someone else’s dreams
a) Honor your preferences in every situation, no matter how small
3. Stop settling for less than what you want
a) What confronted with a choice, no matter how small, act as if you
have a preference
4. The yellow notebook
a) I deserve to have everything in my life exactly how I want it
5. Make an I want list
a) 30 you want to do
b) 30 you want to have
c) 30 you want to be
6. Is worrying about making a living stopping you?
a) Make a list of 20 things you love to do and think of ways you can
make a living doing those things
7. Clarify your vision for your ideal life
a) Level 10 vision
8. Your inner gps
 a) Clarify where you want to go, plot the goals to get you there and
just follow along
9. High achievers have bigger visions
a) Dream big dreams
10. Don’t let anyone talk you out of your vision
11. The vision excercise
a) Read you vision everyday
12. Share Your Vision For Maximum Impact
a) It becomes more real and you strengthen your belief that you can
achieve it
D. Believe Its POSSIBKE
1. You get what you expect
a) Brains believe what they expect to happen
2. You gotta believe
3. Believe in yourself then go for it
4. It helps if you have someone else believe in you first
E. Believe In Yourself
1. Believing in yourself in an attitude
2. Include why you want what you want
3. Make someone feel like they are the most important person in the world
4. Dedicated 3-5 hour blocks to improving one skill
5. Add empowering philosphies and strategies to your affirmation
6. The choice of what I believe is up to me
7. I have to give up “I can’t”
8. Don’t waste your life believing you can’t
9. It’s all about attitude
10. Don’t assume you need a college degree
a) I can start from anywhere and create the successful life I want
11. What others think about me is none of my business
a) Literally no one is thinking about me
F. Become an Inverse Paranoid
1. The world is constantly supporting me and bringing me opportunities
a) Things happen to let good stuff happen
b) Where’s the greater benefit in this event
2. How do I use this experience to my advantage
3. Look for the opportunity in everything
a) Write on hand
4. I saw the opportunity
5. I must have something better in store for me
G. Unleash the power of goal setting
1. Turn visions into goals and then act with the reality that you will achieve
them
2. The brain will achieve the goals you set
 3. How much, by when
a) Be as specific as possible
b) Goal book
4. A goal versus a good idea
5. Write it out in detail
6. You need goals that stretch you
a) They will grow you and teach you new skills so you will be a
master at life
7. Create a breakthrough goal
a) The achievement of one goal will change everything
8. Reread your goals three times a day
a) Pack of index cards by your bed
b) Put goals in your daily planner
c) Carry your list of goals everywhere
9. Create a Goals Book
a) Review everyday
10. Carry your most important goal in your wallet
11. One goal is not enough
a) List of 101 goals you want to achieve is vivid detail
b) Index cards and goal book
c) Write victory when you achieve it
12. Bruce Lee’s letter
13. Write yourself a check
14. Considerations, fears, and roadblocks
a) They are just apart of the process
15. Mastery is the Goal
a) When working towards a big goal you become someone amazing
from the growth you experience.
b) This personal growth can never be taken away
16. DO IT NOW
a) Write down specific action steps to achieve goal
b) The greatest gift I can give to the people I love is to live my full
potential
c) Visualize who I need to be and what I need to do
d) Make a vision board
e) Model successful people who have already achieved it
f) Reread good personal development books
H. Chunk it down
1. Break tasks into small manageable ones
2. How to chunk it down
a) Ask people how they got where they are
b) Read a manual
3. Use Mind Mapping
 a) Center circle with the name of the goal
b) Outer circles with major categories of tasks you will need to do
c) Spokes radiating from each mini circle detailing tasks you need to
do. Break down the spokes further into small action steps
4. Next make a daily to do list
a) Schedule in calendar
5. Do first things first
a) Do the hardest thing first
6. Plan your day the night before
7. Use the achievers focus system
a) Download form online
I. Success Leaves Clues
1. Who has already done what you want to do
a) Follow the blueprint, use the system and work the program
2. Why people don’t seek out clues
3. Seek out clues
a) Teacher or book
b) Someone who has already done it
c) Shadow someone who is doing what you want to do
J. Release the Breaks
1. Get out of your comfort zone
2. Don’t be as dumb as an elephant
a) Affirmation
b) Create images
c) Change your behavior
3. Stop recreating the same experience over and over
4. What’s your financial temperature
5. Change your behavior
6. Change your self talk with affirmations
a) While rereading your journal, make a list of lessons learned and
new commitments
b) I’m committed to and excited about fulfilling my potential
c) I’m doing the best I can in this moment, and At the same time I
can and will do better
d) The majority of people do hundreds of thing right during a day,
and only a few things wrong
e) Journaling focused on what I accomplished, what I’m grateful for,
and what I’m committed to doing Better next time, and clarifying
actions to improve
f) Email Hal Elrod for help with your book
7. The nine guidelines for creating effective affirmations
a) Start with I am
b) Use the present tense
 c) State it in the positive
d) Keep it brief and memorable
e) Make it specific
f) Include and action word ending in -ing
g) Include a dynamic emotion or feeling word
h) Make affirmations for yourself, not others
i) Add “or something better”
8. A simple way to create affirmations
a) Visualize the world you would like to see
b) Hear the sounds you would be hearing if you already achieved
your vision
c) Feel the feeling
d) Describe what you are feeling in a brief statement, including what
you are feeling
e) Edit to meet the nine guidelines
9. How to use affirmations and visualization
a) Review you affirmation first thing in the morning, in the middle of
the day, and at bed time
b) Review each affirmation out loud
c) Visualize the scene as if I was living it
d) Hear the sounds I would hear if I achieved my affirmation
e) Feel the feelings you would feel
(1) I am enjoying easily creating powerful feelings in my
effective work in affirmations
f) Say the affirmation again, then repeat process with the next
affirmation
10. Other ways to use affirmations
a) Repeat your affirmations during wasted time
11. Affirmations work
a) Get journalist to write about your book
K. See what you want, get what you see
1. How visualizations work to enhance preformance
a) The brain while achieve the images you give it
2. The process for visualizing your future
a) Read goals every night and visualize them
3. Adding sounds and feelings to pictures
a) All sensations, including emotional
4. Fuel your images with emotions
a) Inspiring music, real smells, shouting with exaggerated emotion
5. Visualization works
6. What if I don’t see anything when I visualize
7. Use printed images to help you
a) Pictures of you photoshopped with these things
 8. Vision boards and goal books made their dreams come true
9. Start now
a) Visualize 10-15 minutes everyday
L. Act as if
1. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail
2. Act as if you are already where you want to be
3. Start acting as if
4. Becoming an international consultant
a) Law of attraction- energy attracts similar outcomes
5. Acting as if in the pga
6. The millionaire cocktail party
7. Be, do, and have everything you want...starting now
8. The party that can change your life
a) Throw a come as you will be party
9. And the party continues
M. Take action
1. Good things begin to flow in your direction
2. TALK IS CHEAP!
3. NOTHING MATTERS UNTIL YOU TAKE ACTION
a) If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it
b) How you do anything is how you do everything
4. RUBEN GONZALES GOES FOR OLYMPIC GOLD
5. SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE HAVE A BIAS FOR ACTION
6. READY, FIRE, AIM
a) Just take action and readjust
b) Submit Harm None to local newspapers
7. QUIT WAITING
8. SATISFACTION COMES WITH ENOUGH ACTION
9. Do it Now!
10. GIVE ME A BREAK
11. FAIL FORWARD
N. Just lean into it
1. Leaning into it creates momentum
2. Be willing to start without seeing the whole path
a) You don’t have to know how you are going to achieve it
3. Sometimes, you don’t even have to have a clear dream
a) When you come to a roadblock, take a detour
4. Looking for her underlying motivation
5. I’m not lost, I’m just exploring
6. Keep leaning and the path will appear
7. The Turning point
O. Experience your fear and take action anyway
1. Why are we so fearful?
 a) Fears exists but it doesn’t need to keep me from doing important
tasks
2. You have to be willing to feel fear
a) Nothing ventured, nothing gained
3. Fantasized experiences appear real
4. How to get rid of fear
a) Picture and think of the opposite of what you are afraid of
5. Replace the physical sensations fear brings
a) Switch between fear and self confidence, spending 15 seconds in
each until you are calm
6. Remember when you triumphed in the face of fear
7. Scale Down the risk
a) Scale down smaller challenges and work your way up
8. When your fear is really a phobia
9. Take a leap!
a) Eat after your miracle morning
b) Add level 10 affirmations to my affirmation lists
c) Always update affirmations
10. Taking a leap can transform your life
11. Oh what the heck, just go for it!
12. Be willing to put it all on the line for your dream
13. The challenge
14. Highly intention, low attachment
a) Do everything you can to get what you want, and then let it go
b) What’s the possibility that this is?
P. Be willing to pay the price
1. Pain is only temporary, the benefits last forever
2. Practice, practice, practice
3. Olympic athletes pay the price
a) Four hours everyday
4. Ten times perfectly
a) Ten times perfectly or start over
b) Give your life to draw like you
5. Determined to be an artist at any cost
a) In the beginning you have to suffer
6. Whatever it takes
7. Putting in the time
a) You’re going to get it done no matter what it takes, how long it
takes
b) Constant rewrites, constant interviews
8. It’s about building momentum
a) One you break in, you can coast
 b) Paying the price in the beginning allows you to reap the benefits
all of your life
9. Going through the awkward stage
a) It’s going to be awkward at first before you are proficient
10. Find out the price you have to pay
a) Research and interview what other people have done to get where
they are and what they have
b) Make a list
Q. Ask! Ask! Ask!
1. The world's most powerful and neglected secret to success and
happiness
2. Why people are afraid to ask
a) Ask for everything you want
3. How to ask for what you want
a) Ask as if you expect to get, as if it’s a done deal, as if you expect
to get a yes
b) Assume you can
c) Ask someone who can give it to you
d) Be clear and specific
(1) I want a raise of 50¢ an hour
(2) I want to go out with you on Saturday night
(3) I want you to take out the garbage on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday nights
e) Ask repeatedly
(1) Persistence
(2) On a different day, they are in a better mood, you have
new data
4. A telling statistic
5. Ask and it shall be given to you
6. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain by asking
7. Will you give me some money?
8. Start asking today
a) Make a list of what you want at home, school, and work but you
don’t ask for it
(1) Next to each one, write how you stop yourself from asking
(2) Write what is it costing you not to ask
(3) Write the benefit you would get if you were to ask
b) What do you need to ask for in the 10 categories
R. Reject rejection
1. Keep coming back stronger, rejection strengthens you
2. Rejection is a myth
a) If you get a no, your life is the same as it was before
b) There is nothing to lose by asking
 3. SWSWSWSW
a) Some will, some won’t, so what - someone’s waiting
b) It’s a numbers game
c) What you want wants you, you just have to hang in there long
enough to get a yes
4. 81 Nos, 9 straight yeses
5. Just say “next!”
a) When someone says no, you say yes
6. Chicken soup for the soul
7. 155 rejections didn’t stop him
8. He knocked on 12,500 doors
a) Don’t take it personally because it isn’t personal
9. Some famous rejections
S. Use Feedback to your advantage
1. There are two kinds of feedback
a) Negative and positive
b) Information about improvement opportunities
c) Welcome, receive, and embrace
2. On course, off course, on course, off course
a) Take action and respond to the feedback
3. Ways of responding to feedback that don’t work
a) Caving in and quitting
(1) Correctional guidance
b) Getting mad at the source of the feedback
c) Ignoring the feedback
d) Develop an action plan for transcending your limited behavior
4. Ask for feedback
a) How do you see me limiting myself
5. The most valuable question you may ever learn
a) On a scale of 1-10 how would you rate the quality of our
(relationship) over the last (week)?
b) What would it take to make it a 10?
c) End every meeting with those two questions
6. If they can do it, so can you
a) Get an accountability partner
7. Make it a weekly ritual
8. Be willing to ask
a) Intentionally and actively solicit feedback
b) What can I/we do to make this better?
c) Be grateful for feedback
(1) That you for caring enough to share that with me
9. She asked her way to success in 3 short months
10. How to look really brilliant with little effort
 11. Listen to feedback
a) If it doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t
12. Is all feedback accurate
a) No
13. Look for patterns
a) Are there any patterns in your feedback?
b) Make a list and next to each item write an action step
14. What to do when the feedback tells you you’ve failed
a) Acknowledge you did the best you could with the knowledge that
you had
b) Acknowledge that you survived and that you can cope with the
results
c) Write down everything, the insights and lessons, that you have
learned from the experience and read it often
d) Thank everyone for their feedback
e) Clean up any messes and delivery any apologies
f) Take time to review your past successes to remember that you
have had way more successes than you have had failures
g) Spend time with people you love you can reaffirm your self worth
h) Refocus your vision, incorporate the lessons you have learned,
create a new plan of action and get on with it
T. Commit to constant and never ending improvement
1. The mind numbing pace of change
a) Successful people have a dedicated approach to improvement
2. Improve in small increments
a) Reinforces your belief that you can easily improve
3. Decide what to improve on
a) Ask yourself everyday “how can I improve today” “what can I do
better than before?” “Where can I learn a new skill”
4. You can’t skip steps
(1) Learn something new everyday
(2) It takes years to master
5. Margin of greatness
U. Keep score for success
1. Score keeping stimulates more positive outcomes and reinforces the
behavior
2. Measure what you want, not what you don’t want
3. Not just for business owners anymore
4. Keeping score at home
5. Start keeping score today
a) Decide where to keep score in order to manifest your vision and
achieve your goals
b) Keep score in all areas of your life
 c) Post your scores where you and others can easily see them
V. Practice persistence
1. The longer you persist, the more likely your success
2. It’s not always going to be easy
3. Just one more telephone pole
4. Five years
5. Never give up on your hopes and dreams
6. Never, never, never give up
7. Hang in there
8. How to deal with obstacles
a) Brainstorm 3 ways to get around
b) Be solution oriented
W. Practice the rule of 5
1. 1001 ways to market your book
2. Five specific things that move you toward your goal
a) Everyday, do five simple things that will move your goal to
completion
b) 2 years
3. Look what a sustained effort can do
X. Exceed expectations
1. Go the extra mile
2. From mailroom to producer in four years
a) Are there circumstances in your life where you can go the extra
mile
3. Give More than people expect
4. Why go the extra mile
5. Give something above and beyond what’s expected
6. The four seasons always go the extra mile
7. Nordstrom goes the extra mile
VI. Transform Yourself For Success
A. Stop the “Ain’t it awful club” and surround yourself with successful people
1. You become like the people you spend the most time with
2. Drop out of the “Ain’t it awful club”
3. Be selective
a) Make a list of everyone you spend time with on a regular basis
b) Put a minus sign next to people who are negative and toxic and a
plus sign next to people who are positive and nurturing
c) Stop spending time with people with a minus sign next to their
name
4. Avoid toxic people
a) Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive and
uplifting idealists and visionaries
5. Surround yourself with successful people
 a) Ask successful people the secret to their success
B. Acknowledge your positive past
1. Focus on and celebrate your successes
2. The poker chip theory of self esteem and success
a) The more self esteem you have, the more risks you are willing to
take
3. Begin with the nine major successes
a) Divide your life into three equal time periods and lost three
accomplishments for each
4. Can you list 100 successes
5. Create a victory log
6. Display your success symbols
7. The mirror exercise
a) Acknowledge your small daily exercise
b) Do this exercise for a minimum of 3 months
c) Address your name and make eye contact
d) Any achievements
e) Any personal disciplines you’ve kept
f) Any temptations you did not give into
g) Look deep into your eyes and say “I love you”
h) Stand there for a few seconds and feel the impact
8. Reward your inner child
a) Reward yourself when you succeed
9. A sense of completion
C. Keep your eye on the prize
1. The most important 45 minutes of the day
a) Acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your
successful future, make specific plans for what to accomplish the
next day
b) Self improvement book
2. The evening review
a) Sit with your eyes closed and breath deeply
b) Ask yourself to show you where you could have been: more
effective, more conscious, a better student, more loving, more
assertive, or more anything
3. The daily success focus journal
a) Advanced victory log
b) Everyday for a month
c) Identify five things that you have accomplished during the day
d) Write down why those accomplishments were important to you
e) Write down how you can make further progress in that area
f) Write down a specific action step
g) Transfer all actions into your planner with a specific time
 4. Create your ideal day
a) Visualize your entire day going exactly as you want it
D. Clean up your messes and your incompletes
1. The cycle of completion
a) Decide, plan, start, continue, finish, complete
2. Failure to complete robs you of valuable attention units
3. Get into completion consciousness
a) What does it take to actually get this task completed
4. The four D’s of completion
a) Do it, delegate it, delay it, dump it
5. Making space for someone new
6. Twenty five ways to complete before moving forward
a) Make a list and write down how you’ll complete each task
b) Choose the four items that will immediately clear up the most
space
c) Completion weekend- two full days of clearing the list
7. What’s irritating you?
8. Consider hiring a professional organizer to get you started
E. Complete the past to embrace your future
1. The total truth process and the total truth letter
a) The stages of the total truth
(1) Equal time spent on each
(2) Anger and resentment
(a) I hate it when
(b) Im fed up with
(3) Hurt
(a) It hurt me when
(b) I felt sad when
(c) I feel hurt that
(d) I feel disappointed about
(4) Fear
(a) I was afraid that
(b) I’m afraid that I
(5) Remorse, regret, and accountability
(a) I’m sorry that
(b) Please forgive me for
(c) I'm sorry for
(d) I didn’t mean to
(6) Wants
(a) All I ever wanted
(b) I want you to
(c) I want(ed)
(d) I deserve
 (7) Love, compassion, forgiveness, appreciation
(a) I understand that
(b) I appreciate
(c) I love you For
(d) I forgive you for
(e) Thank you for
b) The total truth letter
(1) Throw away, or present to other person as they present
one to you
2. Forgive and move on
3. Forgive and bring yourself back to the present
4. But it’s so hard to let go
5. Steps to forgiving
a) Acknowledge your anger and resentment
b) Acknowledge the hurt and pain that it created
c) Acknowledge the fears and self doubts that it created
d) Own any part you have played in letting it occur or letting it
continue
e) Acknowledge what you were wanting and didn’t get
f) Put yourself in the other person's shoes and try to understand
where they were coming from and what needs they were trying to
meet
g) Let go and forgive the person
6. Make a list
a) Make a list of anyone who has hurt you and how
(1) Blank hurt me by blank
b) One by one go through the total truth process for each person
c) All people are doing the best they can to meet their needs with the
information that have now
d) If they could do better they would do better
7. The forgiveness affirmation
a) Recite several times each day
8. If they can do it, you can do it
F. Face what isn’t working
1. Remember the yellow alerts
a) Exercise more self discipline, confront someone, risk not being
liked, ask for what you want,
2. What does denial look like
a) Debt like this is Normal
b) At least it’s just marijuana
c) I need this to relax
3. Know when to hold'em, know when to fold em
4. Denial is based on fear
 a) Not enough time for yourself?
5. Take action Now
a) Make a list of what isn’t working in your life in the ten areas
b) Ask people what they think isn’t working.
(1) What’s not working? How can we improve it? What
requests can I make? What do you need from me? What
do we need to do to make the situation how we want it?
G. Embrace Change
1. Grow or die
2. What do you need to grow?
3. How to embrace change
a) Cyclical change and structural change
(1) Structural change - there is no going back
b) What’s changing in my life that I’m currently resisting?
c) Why am I resisting that change?
d) What am I afraid of with respect to this change? What am I afraid
of might happen to me? What’s the payoff for keeping things as
they are?what are the costs of me keeping things the way they
are? What might I benefit from this change?
e) What would I have to do to cooperate with this change? What’s
the next step I can take to cooperate with this change? Will I take
it?
H. Transform your inner critic into an inner coach
1. Worried himself to death
2. Your negative thoughts affect your body
3. Talk to yourself like a winner
4. Stomp those ants
a) Be aware of them
b) Challenge them
c) Replace them with positive thoughts
d) Is this thought helping me or hurting me?
e) Write down every negative thought you hear or think from
Wednesday to Friday/ or from Sunday to tuesday
5. Different types of ants
a) Always-or-never thinking
(1) Replace with what is true
b) Focusing on the Negative
(1) Focus on the positive instead
(2) Ask everyone about one positive thing that has happened
since you last seen them
(3) Look for things to appreciate in every situation
(4) Take seven minutes every morning to write down all of the
things you appreciate in life
 c) Catastrophic predicting
(1) -prediction the worse case scenario then acting as if it
were true
(2) Replace with “I don’t know what will happen, maybe it will
be positive
d) Mind reading
(1) I don’t know what they are thinking unless I ask them
(2) I’m imagining that you are mad at me, are you?
(3) When in doubt check it out
e) Guilt tripping
(1) I want to, it supports my goals to, it would be smart to, it’s
in my best interest to,
f) Labeling
(1) What I did was less than brilliant, but I’m still a smart
person
g) Personalizing
6. Transforming your inner critic into your inner coach
a) Practice the total truth with yourself
b) Make a list of all the things you say when you are judging yourself,
including all of the things you say you should do.
c) Then practice communicating using anger, fear, requests, and
love
d) Spend a minimum of 1 minute on each step
e) Be very specific in the request stage
f) Thank you for caring, what is your fear? What do you specifically
want me to do? How will that serve me? Thank you
7. How to silence your performance critic
a) Tell your inner critic that you won’t accept criticism and will only
accept specific steps to improve your performance next time
b) Write Rosen new ideas
I. Transcend your limiting beliefs
1. I am capable
2. I am capable and worthy of love
a) I won’t settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to
create San intimate and fulfilling relationship for myself
3. I can overcome any limiting belief
4. How to overcome any limiting belief
a) Identify a limiting belief you want to change
(1) Make a list of any beliefs you have that might be limiting
you
b) Determine how the belief limits you
c) Decide how you want to be, act or feel
 d) Create a turnaround statement that allows you to be, act or feel
this way
e) It’s okay to ask for help. I’m worthy of all of the support that I need
f) My needs are just as important as everyone else’s
g) The more o express me true feelings, the more people love,
respect and support me
h) I can do many things right, and each time I try something new I
learn and get better
5. Summary of the process
a) Constant repititon several times a day for at least 30 day
J. Develop four new success habits a year
K. Good or bad, habits always deliver results
1. Make a list of all habits that keep you unproductive or negatively impact
your future
a) Ask others to help you and look for patterns
b) Procrastinating writing Harm None, doing financial aid at the last
minute, arrive late to meetups at the swingy chairs, talking over
other people’s comments, overeating
2. Choose a better more productive habit and develop success systems to
help support them
3. What could you achieve if you took on four new habits in a year
a) Work on one habit every quarter
(1) Put up signs to remind you
(2) Get an accountability partner
(3) Follow the no exceptions rule
L. 99% is a bitch, 100% is a breeze
1. The “No Exceptions” Rule
2. Only on a full moon
3. No matter what
4. Øne final reason 100% is so important
M. Learn More to earn more
1. Decrease your television time
2. Leaders are readers
a) Read the autobiographies of Nobel peace prize winners and
leaders in their fields
3. Learn to read faster, to read more
4. A weekly system for getting smart
a) Read books on pages 441-451
5. Study the lives of great people
a) Great life network. Com
6. Attend success rallies, conferences, and retreats
7. Be teachable
8. Be prepared with opportunity knocks
 9. What do you need to do to get ready
a) Make a list of the top 10 things you need to be doing to be ready
when opportunity arises
10. Attend human potential trainings
a) Personal development training and individual therapy
11. Therapy and counseling
a) Gestalt therapy, psychosynthesis, neuro linguistic programming
12. Commit to lifelong learning
N. Stay motivated with the masters
1. Listen to daily audio programs for 15 minutes a day
2. Learn virtually anything you want or need to know
3. Sleepless in Virginia at 4 am
4. Audio tapes released his creativity
5. Where to get the best motivational audio programs
a) The success principles.com
b) Jack Canfield.com
O. Fuel your success with passion and enthusiasm
1. Filled with passion
2. A passion for horses
3. A passion for teaching
4. How to develop passion
5. How to keep passion and enthusiasm alive
VII. Build Your success team
A. Stay focused on your core genius
1. Delegate completely
2. Become a con artist doing what you love to do
a) I dentist core genius (art) then delegate completely to free up
more time to focus on what you want to do
3. Do what you love, the money will follow
B. Redefine time
1. Entrepreneurial time system
a) Focus days, buffer days, and free days
2. Focus days
a) 80% of time focusing on core genius
b) Best results day
3. Preparation days
a) Prepare and plan for a best results day
b) Learning a new skill, locating a new resource, seeking out a
mentor
4. Free days
a) 130-140 days a year
5. Free means some days without the kids too
6. Free days help you work harder and smarter
 7. Use your vacation time
8. Start scheduling
a) List the three best focus days you have ever had and look for the
common elements
b) Schedule at least 4 vacations
c) List the three best free days you have ever had and look for the
common elements
C. Build a powerful support team and delegate to them
1. The total focus purposes
a) List all activities that occupy your time
b) Choose from this list 1-3 things that you are brilliant at and that
bring you the most income
c) Create a plan for delegating everything else to other people
2. Seek out key “staff members”
a) Look for a dynamic number two person
3. Why you need personal advisors
a) My parents, my best friends, my professors, my counselors
4. Once you’ve chosen your team members, trust them
D. Just say no!
1. Don’t just delegate, eliminate!
2. Only invest in projects and people with a high payoff
a) Create a stop doing list
b) Make the things on your list a policy
3. Consider giving up your cell phone and your email
4. If saying no is so important, then why is it so hard to say?
5. It’s not against you, it’s for me
a) What I say no I feel guilty book
b) How to say no without feeling guilty book
E. Say no to the good so you can say yes to the great
1. The Pareto Principle: when 20% equals 80%
a) 20% of your active produces 80% of your success
2. Stop majoring in the minors
3. Sylvester Stallone’s rocky beginning
4. How can you determine what’s really great so you can say no to the good
a) Start by listing your opportunities, one side for the good and one
side for the great
b) Talk to advisors about this potential new pursuit
c) Test the waters
d) Look at where you spend your time and determine if they are
helping you reach your goals or if saying no will free up your
schedule for more focused pursuits
F. Find a Wing to climb under
1. I must apprentice to a master
 2. Determine in advance what you want from a mentor
3. Do your homework
a) Read industry magazines, search the Internet, attend conventions,
approach others
b) Make a list of specific points you would like to cover in your first
conversation, such as why you would like them to mentor you and
what kind of help you might be looking for.
c) Be brief but be confident
d) A few minutes a month
e) Keep asking until you get a positive response
f) Script on bookmarked page
4. Take action on your mentors advice
a) Study their methods, ask them questions, make sure you
understand the poprocess, duplicate your mentors efforts
5. Valuable advice
6. Be prepared to return the favor
a) Give your mentors updated information that might benefit them
G. Hire a personal coach
1. One of the best kept secrets of the successful
2. Worth more than money
3. Why coaching works
4. Different formats for coaching
a) Telephone calls
5. How to find a coach
H. Mastermind your way to success***
1. Masterminding - a group of four to six people who get together every
week to problem solve, brainstorm, network, encourage and motivate
each other
2. An old idea that’s new again
3. A process for accelerating your growth
a) Share ideas, thoughts, information, feedback, and resources
4. New thoughts, new people, new resources
a) Bring together people from different professional lives
5. How to assemble a mastermind group
a) Invite people above me, who have already achieved what I want to
achieve
6. Conducting a mastermind meeting
a) Weekly or bimonthly with all members in attendance
b) 1 to 2 hours
c) First few meetings, each person gets the entire meeting to
familiarize the other members with their goals, while everyone else
brainstorms ways to help that person
 d) Other meetings, each person has time to update the members,
ask for help, and receive feedback
e) Step one: ask for spiritual guidance by delivering an invocation
f) Step two: share what’s new and good
g) Step three: negotiate for time
h) Step 4: individual members speek while the group brainstorms
solutions and listeners
i) Step 5: make a commitment to stretch
(1) Each member must verbally commit to an action to move
towards their goals. This must be a stretch
j) Step 6: Emd with a moment of gratitude
(1) Maybe each member goes around the group and says one
thing hey appreciate about another person
(2) Step 7: be accountable
7. Accountability partners
a) Talk regularly on the phone once a week or once every two weeks
8. Three more resources for entrepreneurs and ceos
I. Inquire within
1. Trust your intuition
2. Everyone has intuition, it’s just a matter of developing it
3. Use meditation to access your intuition
4. Regular meditation will deepen your intuition
5. The answers lie within
6. How your intuition communicates with you
7. Make time to listen
a) Pause, take a deep breath
8. Ask questions
a) Should I, what should I do about, how can I, what can I do to
9. Write down your answers
10. Take immediate action
11. She listened and took action
VIII. Create Successful Relationships
A. Be hear now
1. Maintaining eye contact, watching the person's body language, asking for
clarification, looking for the unspoken message
2. Listening pays off
a) Let them speak, don’t say anything
b) Is there anything else?
3. Argue less and listen more
a) Ask for clarification and correct
4. Be interested rather than interesting
a) Listen with the intent of really learning about them
b) What they feel, how they think, and how they see the world
 c) What are there hopes, dreams, and fears? What are their
aspirations? What obstacles are they facing in their life?
5. A powerful question
a) If we were meeting three years from today, what has to happen
during that period in order for you to feel happy about that process
b) What biggest dangers will you have to face in order achieve that
progress?
c) What are the biggest opportunities that you have that you will
need to focus on in order to achieve those things
d) What strengths will you need to maximize and what skills and
resources will you need to capture those opportunities
6. It’s your turn
a) Take yourself through the questions
B. Have a heart talk
1. The other person needs to talk about their wants and needs first
2. What is a heart talk
a) 8 agreements are strictly adhered to in Order to create safety for
deep level communication
3. When to use a heart talk
a) At the beginning of a meeting where groups are coming together
for the first time
b) When there is conflict between two individuals
c) On a regular basis to create a deeper level of intimacy
4. How to conduct a heart talk
a) 2 to tend people
b) Feelings that can block productivity
5. Guidelines for a heart talk
a) Only the person holding the heart talks
b) Don’t judge or criticize what anyone else has said
c) Pass the open table to your left after your turn
d) You talk about how you feel
e) You keep the information confidential
f) You don’t leave the talk I till it’s declared complete
6. Results you can expect from a heart talk
7. A heart talk saves the family business
8. What I feel like saying saves millions of dollars
C. Tell the truth faster
1. What happens when you tell the truth
2. What do you need to share
a) Ask for what you want but are not getting
3. Telling the truth pays dividends
4. There is no perfect time to tell the hard truth
5. I don’t want to hurt their feelings
 6. You won’t want to hear this but
D. Speak with impeccability
1. Your word has power
a) Only speak words that are true and uplift others growth
2. What you say to others creates a ripple effect in the world
3. Stop lying
4. What you say about others matters even more
a) Make a commitment to be impeccable in your speech when talking
to others
b) Appreciate something about everyone you interact with
c) Tell the truth in all of your interactions for one day, then two. Start
over if you mess up
d) Make it an intention to uplift everyone you interact with
5. Idle gossip
a) How to stop yourself and discourage others from gossiping
(1) Change he the subject, say something positive about the
other person, walk away from the conversation, keep quiet,
clearly state that you no longer want to participate in
gossiping about others
6. Check your thoughts and your feelings
a) You feel good, happy, joyful, calm and at peace
E. When In doubt, check it out
1. People always imagine the worse when they don’t know what is true
2. We usually hesitate the most when it might be bad news
3. Do you mean
4. Checking it out contributed to your success
5. Space between the rules
F. Practice uncommon appreciation
1. Three kinds of appreciation
a) Auditory, visual, kinesthetic
2. The perfect combination
a) Use all three
3. Hang in there until you get it right
4. Who cares
5. Appreciation as the secret to success
6. Keeping score
a) Carry a card and appreciate 10 people a day
7. Take time to appreciate yourself too
G. Keep your agreements
1. The high cost of not keeping your agreements
2. Every agreement you make is with yourself
3. Your integrity and self esteem is worth more than one million dollars
4. Some tips on making and keeping agreements
 a) Make only agreements that you intend to keep
b) Write down all of the agreements that you make
c) Communicate any broken agreement at the first available time
d) Learn to say more no often
5. The rules of the game
a) The rules of engagement
(1) How are we going to play together? What are the rules and
guidelines for our relationship going to be
(2) Be willing to support our purpose, values, rules and goals
(3) Speak with good purpose. If it doesn’t serve, don’t say it.
No making people wrong, justifying or defending
(4) If you disagree or don’t understand, ask clarifying
questions. Don’t make the other person wrong.
(5) Make only agreements you are willing and intend to keep
(6) If you can t keep an agreement, communicate as soon as
practical to the appropriate person. Clear up any broken
agreement at the first possible opportunity
(7) When something is not working, first look at the systems
for corrections then propose a system-based solution to
the person who can do something about it
(8) Be responsible. No blaming, no justifying, and no shaming
6. Upping the ante
a) As a consequence for not keeping your commitment, make a
public announcement of something you are not willing to pay
H. Be a class act
1. Live by your own highest standards
a) Establish personal standards for living and behaving that are more
demanding and exacted than conventional society. They are
consciously chosen, established and applied
2. Maintain dignity and grace under pressure
a) Imperturbability in the face of chaos
b) Calmness that gives courage
c) A quality of certainty
3. Focus and improve the behavior of others
4. Operate from a larger, inclusive perspective
a) Have a deep understanding and compassion for the humanity in
others
5. Increase the quality of every experience
a) Transform insignificant situations into something enjoyable and
meaningful
6. Counteract meanness, pettiness and vulgarity
a) Courtesy, respect, gratitude, generosity of spirit,
7. Take responsibility for actions and results
 a) Tell the truth about failures and transform defeats into progress
8. Strengthen the integrity of all situations
a) Establish and achieve large goals that help you grow
9. Expand the meaning of being human
a) Approach everyone, including yourself, uniquely and push
boundaries
10. Increase the confidence and capabilities of others
11. How to become known as a class act
12. Why being a class act helps you succeed
a) Do fewer things, but do them better
13. Class acts teach others to treat them with esteem
IX. Success and Money
A. Develop a positive money conscious
1. Identify my limiting beliefs about money
a) Surface, identify, root out and replace
2. Three steps to turn around your limiting beliefs about money
a) Write down your limiting belief
b) Challenge, make fun of, and argue with the limiting belief
(1) Affirmations on index cards
c) Create a positive turnaround statement
(1) Walk around a room and repeat if multiple times a day, for
30 days
3. Use the power of releasing to accelerate your millionaire mindset
a) Write Down any objection you think of
b) What am I feeling right now as I experience my negative, limiting
thought
c) Welcome the feeling and let it be as best as you can
d) Could I let this go?
e) Am I willing to let this go?
f) Would I rather have this feeling or would I rather be free?
g) When? Let it go now
4. Visualize what you want as you already have it
a) Include money in your daily visualizations
B. You get what you focus on
1. I must decide to be wealthy
2. Next decide what wealthy means to you
a) I want to have a net worth of 1 million by 2030
b) I will earn at least $3000
c) I will save and invest $20 every month
d) A new financial habit I will develop starting now is not spending
more than $60 a month
e) To become debt free I will apply to scholarships, get a job, set
commissions, create and sell merchandise, sell books and games
 3. Find out what it will cost to finance your dream life, now and later
a) Research how much it will cost to do and buy everything over the
course of the next year
b) Rent, food, clothes, medical care, automobiles, utilities, education,
vacation, recreation, insurance, savings, investments, and
philanthropy
c) Visualize the things in each category then write down what you
would need to spend to get those items
4. Get real about your retirement
a) Determine how much money you will need to save to maintain
your current lifestyle after retirement
b) For every $1,000 in monthly income have $230,000 invested when
you stop working
5. Become conscious about your money
a) So many questions
b) Step 1) determine your net worth $255
c) Step 2) Determined what you will need to retire
d) Step 3) Become Aware of what you are spending
(1) Keep a record of everything I spend for one month
e) Step 4) become financially literate
(1) Read one financial book a month
6. Wealth has many aspects
a) Four different kinds of assets
(1) Human assets, intellect assets, financial assets, civil
assets
C. Pay yourself first
1. Save 10% of every dollar and reinvest the dividends
2. A telling story
3. The eighth wonder of the world
4. Make saving and investing a priority
a) Invest 10% into savings every month
5. He paid himself first
6. The 50/50 law
a) Never spend more than you save
b) Save 50% of your income
7. Don’t tell me you can’t do it!
8. Who wants to be a millionaire
a) 50 million millionaires in the United States by 2020
b) Every 4 minutes, someone in the United States becomes a
millionaire
9. Millionaire doesn’t mean celebrity
10. How to become and automatic millionaire
11. Build assets rather than liabilities
 a) Invest 20% of income into assets and businesses that produce
more income
b) Then invest 100% of the income made by the assets into making
more assets and streams of income
c) Eventually include 100% of the income of the new assets into your
total income, live off this and be financially free
12. Once your nest egg starts to grow
a) Finishrich.com - find financial advisor
13. Protect what is yours with insurance
14. Protect what is mine with a prenuptial or cohabitation agreement
D. Master the spending game
1. How much did you spend last year
2. Start paying cash for virtually everything
3. Reduce the cost of your rich lifestyle
a) Live the lifestyle you want yet pay a whole lot less for it
4. Take steps now to become debt free
a) Stop borrowing money
b) Don’t get a home equity loan to pay off credit card debt
c) Pay off your smallest debts first
d) Slowly increase your debt payments
e) Pay off your home mortgage and credit cards early
5. The power of focus
E. To Spend More First Make More
1. How to make money
a) Decide how much money you want to make
b) What product, service, or additional value can i deliver to generate
that money
c) Develop and deliver that product, service or value
2. More money idea #1: Become an intrapreneur
3. More Money idea #2: Find a need and fill it
4. More money idea #3: think outside of the box
5. More money idea #4 start a business on the Internet
6. More money idea #5: network marketing company
7. Money flows to value
8. Create multiple sources of income
9. An important distinction
a) Robert g. Allen
F. Give more to get more
1. There are different types of tithing
a) Financial and time
2. His life turned around as soon as he started tithing
3. Corporate giving
4. Share the wealth
 G. Find a way to serve
1. Decide what is important to you
2. Volunteer your skills
3. You’ll get more than you give
4. Unexpected career or business rewards
5. Service always comes back multiplied
X. Success Starts Now
A. Start now, just do it!
1. How to get started
2. Precessional effects
3. Meeting Vin Di Bona
4. An Olympic dream turned into a professional speaking career
5. Go get started!
B. Empowering yourself by empowering other
1. Teach these principles to others
2. When you lift up others, they will lift up you
3. Help us start a movement
4.