Imagine that you are going to receive a $100,000 bonus at end of month if you can work on your highest priority items every minute of every day. How would you change your behavior and what would you do differently?

You must continually ask yourself, "What activities in my life can I cut back on, delegate, or discontinue to free up more time for my most important activities?"

Your most valuable asset in life is your earning ability. Your ability to work, to produce, to earn money in our competitive economy by applying your brain and ability to your world enables you to generate tens of thousands of dollars each year.

If you want to increase your standard of living, you must increase your earning ability through a systematic and deliberate process of learning and practicing new skills and abilities.

What will you absolutely, positively have to be excellent at doing three to five years from now for you to continue enjoying your current or an even higher standard of living?

Regular planning assures that you spend more time on activities of higher value. This increases your effectiveness and your efficiency in everything you do. Perhaps most important rule of all is for you to "Think on paper!"

Why would you want to help someone to do this anyway?

The main reason that I do this is because as I help others, I improve myself in process ... a self-perpetuation if you like.

The word *success* comes from a Latin word meaning "to follow." It's a future-oriented concept. If you don't consider what's ahead when pursuing your goals, you may reach place where you thought you would find success only to discover that it's not there.

Take for example a quarterback throwing a pass. He has to lead his receiver; to throw ball not where pass-catcher is now but where he expects him to be at some future moment. He must be able to improvise: if his primary receiver is taken out of play he has to target on another before he's thrown for a loss. And he has to move ball downfield: three completions don't mean a lot if they don't result in a first down.

When you were born, you were blessed with only Good. Being of free will (unless born into slavery), you were given choice (as you came of age) to create whatever kind of life you wanted for yourself. Unfortunately, there is a great chance that you *fell into* a world where you observed others who were self-centered, self-delusional and basically demonstrated laziness and lack of ambition. This is prevalent in society.