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Million Dollar Habits
Brian Tracy
Dedication: This book is dedicated to my three fine brothers- Robin, Dalmar and
Paul – each of them remarkable in his own way, each of them possessed of fine
qualities, buttressed by great habits, and destined for wonderful things.
Table of Contents
Introduction You Are What You Do
Chapter One Where Your Habits Come From
Chapter Two The Master Program of Success
Chapter Three Becoming A Person of Value
Chapter Four The Habits You Need To Succeed
Chapter Five The Habits of People Who Become Millionaires
Chapter Six The Habits That Get You Paid More and Promoted Faster
Chapter Seven The Habits of Top Businesspeople
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Chapter Eight The Habits for Marketing and Sales Success
Chapter Nine The Habits of Personal Effectiveness
Chapter Ten The Habits for Getting Along Well With Others
Chapter Eleven The Habits for Health and Well Being
Chapter Twelve The Habits of Character and Leadership
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The Focal Point Coaching Process
The Focal Point Telecoaching Process
Index
About the Author
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Million Dollar Habits
Introduction – You Are What You Do
“Habit my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes the man himself.”
(Evenus)
Thank you for reading this book. In the pages ahead, you are going to learn a
proven and practical series of strategies and techniques that you can use to achieve
greater success and happiness in every area of your life. I am going to share with
you the so-called “Secrets of Success” practiced by every person who ever
achieves anything worthwhile in life. When you learn and practice them yourself,
you will never be the same again.
The Great Question
Many years ago, I began asking the question, “Why are some people more
successful than others?” This question became the focal point of a lifelong search,
taking me to more than 80 countries and through many thousands of books and
articles on the subjects of philosophy, psychology, religion, metaphysics, history,
economics, and business. Over time, the answers came to me, one by one, and
gradually crystallized into a clear picture and a simple explanation.
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It is this: “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself.
Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today
is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You
can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new
choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and
the things you want to accomplish with your life.”
Just think! Everything that you are or ever will be is up to you. And the only real
limit on what you can be, do and have is the limit you place on your own
imagination. You can take complete control of your destiny by taking complete
control of your thoughts, words and actions from this day forward.
The Power of Habit
Perhaps the most important discovery in the fields of psychology and success is
that fully 95% of everything that you think, feel, do and achieve is the result of
habit. Beginning in childhood, you have developed a series of conditioned
responses that lead you to react automatically and unthinkingly in almost every
situation.
To put it simply, successful people have “success habits” and unsuccessful people
do not. Successful, happy, healthy, prosperous men and women easily,
automatically and consistently do and say the right things in the right way at the
right time. As a result, they accomplish ten and twenty times as much as average
people who have not yet learned these habits and practiced these behaviors.
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The Definition of Success
Often people ask me to define the word “success.” My favorite definition is this:
“Success is the ability to live your life the way you want to live it, doing what you
most enjoy, surrounded by people who you admire and respect.”
In a larger sense, success is the ability to achieve your dreams, desires, hopes,
wishes and goals in each of the important areas of your life.
Although each of us is unique and different from all other human beings who have
ever lived, we all have four goals or desires in common. On a scale of one to ten,
with one being the lowest and ten being the highest, you can conduct a quick
evaluation of your life by giving yourself a grade in each of these four areas.