How do highly successful people get so much done and exude an aura of greatness?  It all starts with what’s going on in your head.

You’ve heard the old saying… “Garbage in, garbage out”.  That means that whatever you put into your body or your mind is exactly what will be forming your thoughts and actions, and molding your mind and your body.  If you eat nothing but junk then your body will become unhealthy and give you poor performance.  If you listen to negative input, then you will have a negative outlook.  The opposite also holds true: If your input is positive and encouraging then you will have an optimistic, can-do attitude.  What you feed your mind will just keep replaying over and over and it will determine your personality and your attitude.

So, how do I get the garbage out of my head that’s been filling it for years?  You change the type of input you give your mind.  A great way to do this is to read or listen to certain books. You can learn so much and change your entire outlook and ultimately who you are.

I will share with you a list of books that I was recommended to read.  I have not personally read or listened to all of these yet… but I have started and my goal is to go through each one and get my brain geared toward success.

Here’s the list:

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life: Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• The secrets behind “the secret”: What you need to know about the law of attraction and dream manifestation by Daniel Marques
• Scientific Advertising by Claude C Hopkins
• Psycho-Cybernet​ics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life
  by Maxwell Maltz
• The 50th Law by 50 Cent
• The Secret Presents: The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles
• As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

Currently I am listening to the audio book Psycho-Cybernetics.  As I finish each of these books, I will give you my synopsis and how it has helped me.

So are you ready to join me in a spring cleaning of the mind?  Lets take the trash out and get our minds right.  Do your best to be your best and live to help others. Let’s make this world a better place, one badass at a time!

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Hey guys, I found this great article on Entrepreneur.com that I thought we could all benefit from reading.  Do you know the single most important habit to help you be successful?  Read on…

The Single Most Important Habit of Successful Entrepreneurs

“In his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of your frantic, time-pressured days so you can turn time into money. In this edited excerpt, the author describes the one habit you should adopt–and stick to without fail–if you want to be successful.

I’m sure there are exceptions somewhere, but so far, in 35-plus years of taking note of this, everybody I’ve met and gotten to know who devoutly adheres to this discipline becomes exceptionally successful and everybody I’ve met and gotten to know who ignores this discipline fails. Is it possible that this one discipline alone is so powerful it literally determines success or failure?

The discipline I’m talking about is punctuality — being where you’re supposed to be when you’re supposed to be there, as promised, without exception, without excuse, every time, all the time. I cannot tell you how important I believe this is. But I’ll tell you some of the reasons why I believe in its indescribably great importance.

First of all, being punctual gives you the right—the positioning—to expect and demand that others treat your time with the utmost respect. You cannot reasonably hope to have others treat your time with respect if you show little or no respect for theirs. So if you’re not punctual, you have no leverage, no moral authority. But the punctual person gains that advantage over staff, associates, vendors, clients, everybody.

It is my conviction that a person who cannot keep appointments on time, cannot keep scheduled commitments or cannot stick to a schedule cannot be trusted in other ways either. There is a link between respect for others’ time and respect for others’ opinions, property, rights, agreements and contracts. A person reveals a great deal about himself by his punctuality or lack of punctuality. As a general rule of thumb, I use this as a means of determining whether or not I want to do business with someone. And, when I violate this, as I occasionally foolishly do, I always get burned.

Let me give you one example. Dozens of years ago, a person seeking to do business with me arranged to meet me at an airport, where I had a 90-minute layover. We agreed, and I confirmed by fax that we would meet at my arrival gate, at my arrival time, and then go to that airline’s club room right there on the concourse for the meeting. When I arrived, the guy wasn’t there. Some ten minutes later, I’m paged and told to meet him in the main terminal where he is because he ran late getting to the airport. It takes me ten minutes on the tram to get to the main terminal, and I have to cut another ten minutes of our meeting to allow time to get back to my gate. I have to go through this to meet with a man so disrespectful of a commitment made and of my time that he cannot organize his life to arrive at a meeting on time in his own home city. If he could not be relied on to honor such an easy commitment, why should anybody believe he would honor more important ones?

Still, violating my own rule, I went ahead and accepted this guy as a client. It was predictably ugly. He lied, he cheated, and he was completely disorganized, dysfunctional, and unreasonable. He sucked up a pretty good chunk of my time, and it cost me thousands of dollars to get rid of him.

Now, here’s a “success secret” for you: I’m not the only person to have figured out this punctuality-integrity link. I’m just not that smart. I’ve stumbled on something that a whole lot of other smart, successful, and influential people already know and secretly use to make their determinations about who they will buy from or not buy from, do business with or not do business with, help or not help, trust or distrust. If you are not a punctual person, others you wish to positively influence negatively judge you.

If you think that successful people—people you want to deal with—do not have their own little “systems” for judging people, you’re very naïve. Not only do they have such a system, most successful people make a point of having “instant reject criteria,” to save time in determining who they want to deal with and who they don’t.

One of my earliest business mentors said that there were only two good reasons for being late for a meeting with him: one, you’re dead; two, you want to be.

So, to borrow from Dale Carnegie, if you want to win friends and influence people, be punctual. And, if you’d like to save yourself a lot of time and trouble, start using this as a means of judging those who would do business with you.

Dan S. Kennedy is a strategic adviser, consultant, business coach, and author of the popular No B.S. book series. He directly influences more than one million business owners annually.

In his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of your frantic, time-pressured days so you can turn time into money. In this edited excerpt, the author describes the one habit you should adopt–and stick to without fail–if you want to be successful.

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230107

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