2. How We Get Results
Persistence
Decide and Commit
Planning
Why and How
Focus
What ONE THING can I do?
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3. Persistence
DECIDE what you really want
Decide and Commit
Take MASSIVE, IMMEDIATE Action
Do it NOW!
Is it Working?
Check Your Results
Try Something Else!
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10. Planning (Steps 1 to 4)
Get Disturbed
Use pressure to your advantage.
Decide your Result and Purpose
Be clear and specific!
Develop a Massive Action Plan
Decimate your problem
Change Your Limiting Beliefs
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11. Planning (Steps 5 to 9)
Set the Game Up to Win
Take Massive, Immediate Action
Massive: Take no prisoners
Immediate: Do it now
Use / Create Your Peer Group
Monitor Results
Modify Your Actions
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12. Get Disturbed!
Nothing gets better until you admit
something is wrong
Don’t Soften!
Don’t Rationalize
Don’t Lie
Use pressure to turn what you should do into
what you must do
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13. Decide Result and Purpose
You haven’t made a decision until something
has changed.
Result: the outcome you want
Purpose: Why you want it
Benefits of Achieving the Result
Consequences of Failure
Put it in writing
Be specific
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14. Change Your Limiting Beliefs
Believe you can, or believe you can’t – either
way, you’re right. ~ Henry Ford
What did you believe that was holding you
back?
What do you believe now?
The only thing keeping you from what you want
is the story you tell yourself about why you can’t
have it. ~ Anthony Robbins
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15. Set the Game Up to Win!
Enjoy the process, not just the outcome.
What can you add to make it fun?
Reward yourself for being approximately
correct at first
Keep score your way
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16. Take Massive Immediate Action
Mindstorm: Consider everything you can do
Who can help?
What do you need to learn?
What resources do you need to acquire?
Identify everything you must do
Include both simple and challenging tasks
What can you do immediately?
Call or email someone?
Put the task on a schedule?
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17. Use / Create Your Peer Group
Love your family, pick your peer group.
Pick a group that raises your standards.
Create a virtual group online.
Hire a coach
Most people’s lives are a direct reflection of the
expectations of their peer group.
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18. Use Feedback
Monitor your results. Are you headed in the
right direction?
If not, look for new actions
Feedback is the key to success.
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19. Planning: Key Ideas
Get disturbed: use pressure to get yourself
moving.
Write it down.
Make real decisions.
Take massive action.
Never leave the scene of setting a goal
without taking some action to put it into
effect.
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20. Focus
Some things don’t need a big plan
What ONE THING would make the most
difference?
Ignore everything else – make it a habit
What’s Your Next Habit?
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21. References
Ultimate Power by Anthony Robbins
Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free
Productivity by David Allen
18 Minutes Find Your Focus, Master
Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
by Peter Bregman
Contact Me Jay Elkes
www.extremecommonsense.net
jay@extremecommonsense.net
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