3. Improve the Quality of Your Life (4
Steps)
1. You can do more of certain
things.
2. You can do less of certain
things.
3. You can start to do things
you are not doing at all
today.
4. You can stop doing certain
things altogether.
4. The 4 D’s
Desire – Everything starts from a
desire to change
Decision – You must decide to
take action
Discipline – Nothing will happen
overnight, practice new
behaviours
Determination – You must persist
until you get the results you want
“Decisions must be backed by discipline” –
Lowenfield Alleyne
5. Double Your Value
Identify the things you do that contribute
the greatest value
The 80/20 Rule tells you that 20 percent of
your tasks contribute 80 percent or more
of the value of all the things you do.
What are the top 20 percent of your
activities that account, or can account,
for 80 percent or more of your value?
Spend more of your time doing more of
the tasks that contribute the greatest
value
Identify the activities in the bottom 80
percent, the lower-value, time-
consuming tasks that contribute very
little to your results.
reduce or eliminate as many of them as
possible, as quickly as you possibly can.
6. I am Responsible
Among the most important personal
choices you can make is to accept
complete responsibility for everything
you are and everything you will ever be.
Accepting responsibility for your life
means that you refuse to make excuses
or blame others for anything in your life
that you're not happy about.
When you accept responsibility, you feel
personally powerful. Accepting
responsibility gives you a tremendous
sense of control over yourself and your
life.
Accepting responsibility is the foundation
of high self-esteem, self-respect, and
personal pride.
7. Responsibility Creed
I refuse to make excuses or blame
others for anything in my life that I’m not
happy about
I refuse to criticize others for any reason
I refuse to complain about my situation
or about what has happened in the past
I will eliminate all of my if-onlys and
what-ifs
I will focus on what I really want and
where I am going
8. Whatever You Concentrate On Grows
Life is the study of attention.
Where your attention goes, your heart
goes also. Your ability to divert your
attention from activities of lower value
to activities of higher value is central to
everything you accomplish in life.
The Hawthorne Effect
The Hawthorne effect (also referred to
as the observer effect) is a type of
reactivity in which individuals modify or
improve an aspect of their behavior in
response to their awareness of being
observed.
9. Your Habits Determine Your Destiny
Almost everything you do is determined
by your habits.
From the time you get up in the morning
to the time you go to sleep at night, your
habits largely control and dictate the
words you say, the things you do, and the
ways you react and respond.
All habits are both learned and
learnable.
You can learn any habit that you consider
desirable or necessary if you are willing to
work at it long enough and hard enough.
Good habits are hard to develop but
easy to live with; bad habits are easy to
develop but hard to live with.
The habits you have and the habits that
have you will determine almost
everything you achieve or fail to achieve.