March 30, 2013

Getting People to Work with You


I learnt this from Malcolm Gladwell's book,Outliers.

An important skill essential for success is this ability to "draw people into your goal". It is so fundamental to success that its almost unheard of that a person succeeds without it.

How do we do this? Simple. We get

March 17, 2013

It Pays To Write Down Your Goals

I was pleasantly amazed this past week. 

I took a little time to go through my journal, and starting at the most recent entry, I saw a notes which I took down after reading a book, notes from a seminar series I attended earlier this year, a few quotes and a bunch of other stuff.

I kept flipping back until I got to my entry on 23rd December, 2012. I read through it and I smiled. You remember when Brian Tracy said – and this is from SOLID research – that the act of writing down a goal increases your chances of achieving it by a whopping 1000%? It’s pure truth.

I read my income goal for the first half of the year 2013. I found that at present I had already exceeded that goal