Become The Best Version of Yourself - Brian Tracy

now I'm going to give you some great ideas and I'm going to give them to you in three or four sections but I want to first of all ask you a question and the question is who is the most important person in this audience well the answer is that you are the most important person in this audience you are the most important person in your entire world how do we know well you spend 99% of your time thinking about yourself so you are the most important person but here's the point how important you feel you are determines the entire quality of your life when you feel that you're important and valuable when you like yourself and respect yourself you set bigger goals for yourself you persist longer you accomplish more and more than anything else the more you like yourself the happier you are the more you like yourself the more you like other people and the more they like you so everything in life and this was a great insight for me as a young man everything in life can be measured by whether or not it increases your happiness the only real measure in life is how happy are you it's not how much money you earn or not the car you drive but are you a thoroughly happy person so I began studying this subject early in my career and I was amazed to find that your self-esteem is like the reactor core of a nuclear generator it's the reactor core of your emotions and your self-esteem determines the entire quality of your life so say these words say I like myself now so when you say this to yourself throughout the day every time you say it you smile and it makes you happy and when you feel happy you treat other people better and you're more happy you're more successful so I began studying the subject and what I found is that the other side of self-esteem is a feeling of personal power when you feel powerful when you feel confident when you feel that you can set and achieve your goals when you feel that you can be successful then your self-esteem goes up and your self-image improves and you feel happy about yourself and so this feeling of personal power comes from the things you do and the way you do it and I'm going to give you a series of steps that you can take to dramatically increase your sense of personal power now the more powerful you feel the more you like yourself the more you like yourself the more self-confidence you have the more self-confidence you have the bigger goals you set and the more you persist and the more that you achieve and everything starts with what's happening inside of yourself so here's an interesting question which comes first the thought or the emotion well when I first learned this I was quite amazed that it's always the thought it's the thought that comes first and it's the way that you interpret this thought to yourself that determines the emotion if something happens and you interpret in a positive way you feel happy if something happens and you interpret it in a negative way you feel negative now the day the reason I say this is it because because today in Russia we are going through an interesting time there's a there's a Chinese curse that says may you live in interesting times and we're living in interesting times for the last three or four days I've been traveling around Russia speaking on crisis management Crisis Intervention because many people are saying that we have a crisis but in Chinese they have a characteristic and the characteristic that means crisis also means opportunity so today we have one of the greatest opportunities in human history more people are going to earn more money and live better lives in the future in Russia than has ever been possible in all of human history yes there are problems the economy will go up and down as it has for hundreds of years but there are more possibilities and opportunities for you in the future than have ever existed before however they will be different than the opportunities of the past many people are so busy watching what happened in the past they don't realize that the real opportunities are in the future now here's a lesson that I learned is never worry about things that you cannot change and you cannot change a past event there are many things in our world world that we cannot change so don't waste any time worrying about things you can't change focus on the things that you can change and the only thing that you can control is the way you think if you think differently you feel and you act differently if you feel and act differently you get different results and you achieve different goals so you'll find that top people throughout history are always focusing on the opportunities of Tomorrow whereas average people are always thinking about the problems of the past all the psychologists and psychiatrists and counselors in the world are helping people talk about their past and what happened in the past and why they feel unhappy about the past but you can't change the past the only thing you can do with the past is learn from it and then let it go so you learn from the past and let it go and then you turn toward the future there's a wonderful line and the line says that when you turn toward the sunshine the Shadows Fall behind you when you look toward the future and all the possibilities for your life in the future you automatically become happy the negative events of the past that you can't control fall behind you and that is your job now I've spoken on this subject all over the world but there is a characteristic of top people you are in the top 10% and why do I say that is because statistically only the top 10% of adults will ever come to a seminar like this only the top 10% the other 90% in their entire lives will never come to a seminar like this many of you have had to sacrifice and time you've had to pay money you've had to suffer inconvenience you've had to wait a long time but you are here and that means that you are either in the top 10% or you intend to be in the future because you're here and the things that you're going to learn from me and from the other speakers in the next two days are some of the greatest ideas that you can use to create a wonderful future for yourself and remember the only thing in the world you can control is your own thinking and if you control your own thinking the way you think about events you control how you feel and how you act and the future of your life so one of the questions that we ask is what is the most valuable and highest paid work that you do and when I first heard this question I didn't know the answer but then I learned that the highest and most valuable work you do is thinking and the reason this word this is so important is because of the word consequences when I began studying time management many years ago and began writing books and articles I came across this word consequences and it changed my life what is said is that the consequences of an event determine whether or not it's valuable or unimportant so therefore if an event or an action has great potential consequences it's important and if something you do has low or no potential consequences it's not important so what is the difference between top people and bottom people you've heard of the 8020 rule the 8020 rule says that in every society 20% of the people earn 80% of the money it also says that in every industry 20% of the companies earn 80% of the profits now this is true worldwide and it's been true for hundreds of years so in your Society our society you have a choice do you want to be in the top 20% or do you want to be in the bottom 80% now everybody starts off in the bottom 80% and then they either make it decision to be in the top 20% or they do not make that decision and it's one of the most important decisions you make in terms of consequences so something is important if it has big potential consequences something is unimportant if it has low or no potential consequences how many people here would like to double their income right if I could show you a simple way to double your income would you give it a try all right so I'm going to give you a very simple technique to double your income now if you increase your productivity and your performance and your output by 25% per year you will double your income in three years now that means 2% per month if you become 2% more productive or better at your work every month that's 25% per year that's double your income in 3 years however once you do it you can do it again and you can double your income again and again and the highest paid people in our society increase their income 10 20 30% each year because they're constantly becoming more productive so here's a very simple technique and I will give you seven more very simple technique imagine that there's two types of work that you do there's work that we will call work number one all right and this work is work that has big potential consequences if you do this and you do it well it makes makes a big difference in your life and your family and everything else the other type of work you do are what we call two number two work and this work has no potential consequences so the first category of work moves you toward your most important goals faster than anything else this other type of work does not move you towards your goals and even worse it moves you away from your goals all the examples of time that you waste doing things of no value so here's a simple way to become one of the highest paid and most productive people in society is do only number one tasks do only those things that are moving you every day toward the goals that you say you want to achieve you want to earn more money be happier be healthier move up in your business have a nice house and a car travel only do those things all day long if you only do those things the things that have great potential consequences it transforms your life now here's another discovery 95% of what you do comes from habit and if you do something repeatedly over and over again what do you develop you develop a new habit so what is the difference between people in the top 20% and people in the bottom 80% and I've studied this for years people in the top 20% have success habits and people in the bottom 80% do not have those habits so you can learn the Habits of Highly Successful People you can learn the habits of highly paid people you can learn the habits of people who get into the top 10% and into the top 20% and you can learn them with practice because all habits are learnable all skills are learnable there is no limit to what you can accomplish if you just simply dedicate yourself to developing the habits of other successful people when I was a young man I came across a statistic that you've seen it said that the average person only uses about 10% of their potential and the other 90% is left unused throughout their lifetime well Recent research shows that that statistic is not true the average person only uses about 2% of their potential and the other 98% is stored like treasure buried in the ground and it's never used and what do people use their 2% for well they use it mostly for conversation at work and with their friends they use it for messaging and tweeting they use it for watching television average person watches a screen a screen five three to five hours per day is there watching a screen of some kind whether it's a computer or an iPhone or an iPad or a television and most of what they're watching is in category two it's completely irrelevant and unimportant it makes no difference in their lives at all but whatever you do over and over again becomes a habit so today we have an entire generation of people who have the habit of watching screens all the time and as a result their lives go very very slowly so therefore have you have to ask yourself is this a good use of my time is this does this does this I work have tremendous consequences for me so when I came to studying thinking I said what is the activity that has the greatest potential consequences for you in your life and the answer is thinking because the quality of your thinking determines the quality of your actions the quality of your actions determines the quality of your results and in life everything in it results now whatever age you're at if you look at other people who are successful there's one quality that successful people have and that's that they get a lot of results they are known by everybody as the people who get the most results they're extremely result oriented they think about results all the time what is the characteristic of unhappy and unsuccessful people is they waste most of their time what do people at work waste most of their time in they waste it talking to their friends when they go to work in the morning they don't go to work they go and find somebody to talk to I have noticed that the work week in the work day in Russia is from about 8:00 in the morning until about 5:00 at night however when I drive in the traffic by 3:30 in the afternoon the roads are full of cars why is that because everybody who gets off work at 5:00 is actually going home early so they can watch television and they're going home early so that they can get ahead of the traffic so most most time at work is wasted so I'll give you another technique to transform your life it's when you go to work work all the time when you go to work when you start first thing in the morning just work all day and don't do anything about your work if somebody wants to talk to you you say yes but not now let's talk after work or let's talk on the weekend but right now I have to do my work and eventually people will stop talking to you and you will accomplish two or three times as much each day if you just go to work and start work and work all day long if you just develop the habit of working all day you will produce twice as much you'll be paid twice as much you'll be promoted twice as fast and this is true all over the world no matter what the situation by the way I said that this is a great time of opportunity in Russia do you know that most of the most successful businesses have were started at the bottom of a recession most of the most successful careers including mine were started at the bottom of a recession that what happens in a recession is that you are forced to think much better than before you're forced to make much better decisions you're forced to make much better actions you're forced to focus more intently on the activities that have the greatest consequences and as a result times of great difficulty are also times of great opportunity for you and for me because you can grow faster and become stronger today than has ever been possible perhaps in your lifetime so don't complain about the difficulties of today because first of all we can't do anything about it and second of all look into that them for the advantages or benefits that they might have for you for the future now here's a second question for you and I ask this question all the time because when I first heard it I didn't know the answer the answer is the question is what is your most valuable financial asset and when I first heard that I thought well it's my house or my car or my bank account no your most valuable financial asset is your earning ability it's your ability to earn money your earning ability is like an oil well that just keeps gushing oil so your earning ability is the most powerful and most valuable financial asset you have and your earning ability by definition is your ability to get results that people will pay you for now this doesn't mean that you are not a valuable person each human being is of incredible value but some people's earning ability is much higher than others and your earning ability is an asset so it can be either increasing in value or decreasing in value now here's what they study here's what they found in the studies the 8020 rule they found that the bottom 80% of people the ones who struggle for money and worry about money all their lives these people when they take their first job will work to a certain level and then they will level off and never improve for the rest of their lives unless they're forced to and so therefore 10 years after starting work the average person today is no more productive at getting results than they were after one year but they find that the people in the top 20% are very different the people in the bottom 80% increase their income about 2 or 3% per year over the years people in the top 20% increase their income at an average of about 11% per year if your income goes up 11% per year you will double your income every six or seven years and then you will double it again and then you'll double it again and soon you live in a beautiful house and you drive a nice car and you'll send your children to private schools and you'll have a nice bank account and you'll be happy but if you don't keep increasing your income nothing good will happen now what is the difference the answer is the people in the bottom 80% don't learn anymore after they leave school but the people in the top 20% are always learning new things and as a result they are increasing their earning ability now one of my favorite statistics is the measurement of the highest paid people in America and by the way these statistics are true in almost every country they looked at the 500 top Executives of the 500 biggest companies and every year they do this calculation they find that last year the average person eared earns about $10 million now this person started off at the beginning at their first job with no earning ability no ability to get results at all and then somehow today their companies are willingly paying them $10 million to come to work what has happened well the average top executive earns 257 times the average pay of the person in their company 257 times we're not talking about twice as much or three times as we're talking about 257 times some top Executives earn 300 and 400 times the amount paid to the average person in their company how can this happen well here's what they discovered every year and many people here are in this situation every year about 1 and 1 half% of the population starts work for the first time they take their first job as adults and so it's like a big marathon it's a big race and everyone lines up and then the gun goes off bang and everybody starts to run and then just like a marathon some people get way ahead in this case in the earnings race the great majority stay in the middle and some people fall well behind so they just finished a 25-year study which I think is one of the great studies on success that's ever been been done they ask how is it that these people can be earning so much money in paycheck they're they're receiving a pay of almost a million dollars a month for going to work and if they lost their job for any reason another company would hire them immediately and pay them $10 million a year how can this happen so the researchers at a major university went back and they said well these people must be very intelligent they must must be have special gifts they must have special qualities or talents that could enable them to be so successful in life so they went back and looked at their school records and the records at their first job and their second job and you know what they found these people were just average and when they started off their work life they didn't look any different from anyone else they were just average but then they all started to practice a single strategy and this is the strategy that will change your life and your career forever and it's so simple it's you can't believe it when these people took their first job the first thing they would do is they would go to their boss and they would say boss I want to make a valuable contribution in this work and I want to be successful in this company what one skill would help me the most to be more successful to make a more valuable contribution and the boss would say well if you were very good at this negotiating or team building or selling or reading financial statements if you were really good at this then you would be much more valuable than an average person so they would say okay and they would write down the development of that skill as a goal just like a a lesson plan for a subject in school if you say you wanted to be a doctor or an engineer they would tell you the courses that you would have to take to get that degree so in this case they would decide all right I would need to read these books and they would ask what are the best books on this skill and they would write it down and then they would ask what are the best audio programs to listen to for this skill preferably Brian Tracy audio programs they the best uh and third of all what courses and seminars should I attend in order to develop this skill and Fin finally what can I do every day to develop the skill how can I take action and they would go to work and they would work on this one skill like a sniper rather than a machine gunner they would work on a single skill and it might take them a month and it might take them three months and it might take them a year but they would work every day on that skill and here's the magic number the magic number was 2 hours per day 5 days per week 10 hours in all 2 hours per day of personal study on a single skill five days per week now what we're saying is that if you want to go to the top of your field and be one of the highest paid and most successful people in life take 10 of those hours and invest them in yourself that's all and this turned out to be the strategy practiced by all the top people now my time is almost up so I want to leave you with three final points no matter what has happened in the past the future is unlimited it's only limited by your imagination and here's my three predictions for you and number one is you are going to make more money in the future than you've ever made in your life before the financial possibilities for you in the future are unlimited number two is you are going to have greater happiness and success in the future than you have ever had in your life today and number three your greatest achievements in life lie in the future and the future is limited only by your own imagination so there is no limit to what you can be and do in the future thank you very much for the day thank you

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Published: Fri Apr 26 2024