Success Requires Expending Ten Units of Effort to Produce One Unit of Result

November 24th, 2008 Posted in Financial Strategies

SUCCESS REQUIRES FIRST EXPENDING TEN UNITS OF EFFORT TO PRODUCE ONE UNIT OF RESULTS.
YOUR MOMENTUM WILL THEN PRODUCE TEN UNITS OF RESULTS WITH EACH UNIT OF EFFORT.
Direction and control begin with a written plan spelled out in two parts. Part A lists “dreams”—what you are after both financially and personally. Part B lists your “strategies”—the specific financial and personal road map that will take you from where you are to where you want to be. By clearly defining your direction, and by adopting the correct money and attitude strategies for control, you will automatically establish the shortest possible route.

When I was 18, I sat down with a pad of paper and, without totally realizing what I was doing, wrote an action blueprint for my life. I called it my dreams list. The exercise will do the same for you, clearly defining at one time and in one place your goals, dreams, objectives, and even your fantasies. Choose a totally quiet spot where you will not ho interrupted. At the top of the pad of paper write the following:
DREAMS LIST

If I had unlimited .. .
TIME
TALENT
MONEY
ABILITY
SELF CONFIDENCE
SUPPORT FROM FAMILY
Here’s what I’d do . . .
Relax and let the ideas pour from both your conscious and subconscious. Don’t evaluate your potential for achieving each item you write. What you will write will excite you, motivate you, inspire you, make you laugh, and, most of all, define desires and dreams that all too often are ready to surface but are held back by the complexities of daily living. Write it all down no matter how silly it seems, no matter what It costs. The ideas will come slowly at first, gaining speed as you leave behind the realities and limits in your life.
My first list was 181 dreams long, of which 170 have already become reality. Since that time I’ve added dozens of others, as you will probably lied yourself doing.

All of us at any age have dreams, and the first step of turning dreams Into reality is to get those dreams out in front of you where you can see and foal them.
Having taught my students this dreams list strategy for over 12 years, I have seen some truly wonderful things happen that might never have occurred otherwise.
A 66-year-old Ph.D. spent his birthday hang gliding with me off the lunge sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

A 14-year-old boy started his own successful business.
A 45-year-old, recently separated housewife with no previous sense of adventure rappelled Straight down a 200-cliff then  rode a zip lino 00 loot in the air, 300 yards across a valley at 411 miles per hour hanging from only wrist straps, resulting in more self-confidence in two days than she had achieved in her entire lifetime.

Through the dreams list strategy a 35-year-old mother swam and played with dolphins at Kings Dominion Park in Virginia, a dream she had had since she was a child.

A 28-year-old European immigrant, who barely spoke English, built a $5-million fortune in five years starting with a $6-an-hour job. I will never forget the tears of joy in his eyes as he sat in my office in Orlando telling me the story of his success and the part my strategies had played in his life.
Once you have made your list with no limits, choose those objectives that are the most important to you. Some will be individual objectives, others will include and require the support of your family. Encourage your spouse and children, if you have them, to create their own lists.

After you define your dreams, the things you want to do, places you want to go, what you want to be and accomplish, the next logical step is to build your road map—your strategies list. The rest of the chapters will show you all of the safe alternatives for creating the wealth to live out your dreams.

Leave a Reply