Month: February 2013

Most people I know don’t have a clear purpose for money, most rich people do.
You want a million dollar to buy a car? a house? quit your job?
Most people get into the working force and begin making money just to make money, hoping that someday some number of zeros in the savings and checking account will make them happier. They go and work sixty to eighty hours a week just to be unhappy.
Do you want money to travel the world? Help the poorer? Own your home? Have a home in each country in the world? Buy cars? Why do you want money.
Until you discover that, all the money in the world, will just make you as unhappy as no money at all. The only difference may be that you will be eating Caviar and Champagne, and maybe even didn’t even like it.
i.e. Once I work on discover my purpose for money, a lot of things change, for me travel is one of those things, and I hope that soon my wife and I will begin traveling soon. I also want money so I can provide with my kids education without debt. I would love to give them as a graduation present, a zero debt education.

Do you continue getting exited when you listen: “The Macarena” or “We are the World”? most likely, you skip those every time you listen to those in your iPod. (I would too)
You don’t delete them because when you sit in the computer you are not going to search among the million of songs and you for sure don’t remember now which ones they where.
You can create in iTunes an smart list that will aggregate songs that you skipped. Next time that you sync your iPod to iTunes they will be there. Then you can choose delete them or unmark them so they don’t sync (assuming you have so iTunes only sync check songs.)
Next time you skipped “The Macarena” you will finally be over to delete it for good…

 

– I am worried… really worried…
÷ Are you going to do something?
– What do you mean?, I am doing something, you are not listening to me?, I am worrying…

This is what most people do about worry. I have been guilty more times that what I am willing to admit it, but worrying just for worrying accomplish nothing. You can spend years worrying, the only thing you are going to produce is stress, anguish, and more worry.
Your other option is to spend fifteen minutes doing something to change that thing that worry you, you may even found a solution.
i.e. We all worry, I do, constantly. I need to remind myself constantly of this, stop worrying and begin doing. I had discover that I get better results doing than worrying, for that reason I do a big effort on stop worrying, and continue doing.

I love when people said that everything it is a priority. In my experience, when everything is a priority nothing is.
The reality is that you can only have one Top Priority. At a given moment, only one thing can be a priority. If you think otherwise, you really don’t know which one is your priority, therefore you think everything is.
That doesn’t mean that priorities can’t change from one moment to the next, only means that if you compare two or more things, only one can have the highest priority, otherwise, none of them are.
Imagine for a moment, what it is your higher priority right now. What are you doing towards that priority? Do you have a conflicting priority? Notice that if when you answer the question of what it is your Higher Priority you though on more than one thing, honestly you need to sit and really think which one is the real priority, you can only have ONE HIGHEST PRIORITY, otherwise, you have none.
When I publish my latest book NO, my highest priority was that book, until was ready for sale, nothing else. I didn’t had twenty other higher priorities, I had one, that book.
We confuse, important things, and things we need to do with our higher priority, and it is that confusion that generate that really any of them get to be really our higher priority.
Think about it, if everything it is your higher priority, nothing is.

We are back to the focus read a book per month during 2013.
Our January Challenge was: “The War of Art by Steven Pressfield” and I hope you took it.

This month I bring a different kind of book. The book for February is a Walt Disney Biography, called: “Who was Walt Disney”

You may or may not be a Disney fan, but you can't deny that Walt Disney was not only a great dreamer but also someone who was able to create a business that last way past his life and time. More importantly, Disney was someone that failed, but got up, again and again.

Here is the link to the Who Was Walt Disney? “>book on Amazon (Affiliate Link).

We all have low days. Some people have them more often that the world actually is aware. That it is a fact of life. So you have two options, weep for hours or days; or remind yourself of the fantastic stuff you have accomplished.
This is more than just a list of stuff, it is not enough to have, wrote book, magazine cover. That will not do in a low day. Mine read:
– Wrote 25 Tips for Productivity that was on the Amazon Best Seller List for more than 150 days!
– Got Featured on Productive Magazine! on the cover of Issue 14
See the difference, this need to be written to lift your spirit. This is so you get reminded of the great stuff you had accomplished. Regardless how small seems, we all have Victories and Accomplishments, that may seem small today, but where big when we did, and we need to be reminded of them, as often as we need.
i.e. I have a Law Degree that was useful to get an MBA. I discover I didn’t want it to be a Lawyer in the middle. I really want it to quit, do something else, anything else. I am proud that I finish it. I don’t want to practice, I am not interested, but I consider an accomplishment that I finish my degree and move on.