Done properly, it will take you about a hundred seconds to complete—which means that if you have time to brush your teeth, you have time to strengthen your mind. It has five basic steps: 1. Centering breath (breathe in for six seconds, hold for two, exhale for seven) 2. Identity statement (personally tailored positive self-talk) 3. Personal

We have the physical ability to “receive” way more information in the literal sense—thousands of emails in a folder, tens of thousands of documents on hard drive—than in the old days. But the technology doesn’t do much to prioritize that information or steer it where it needs to go. It’s like having an enormous fire hose at your disposal—one twenty

focusing on results—or the end product—actually makes it harder to produce those results, and makes any results you do produce take longer to achieve. And that’s the paradox. A focus on results doesn’t produce results. Reformatting your thinking to emphasize the process is the only way to effectively set goals that will actually produce the results

The highest performers learn to devote much more focus—85 percent, at least—to process goals, and they evaluate themselves on how they do on that scale. The product goal—making a certain number or getting a certain title—is the destination. The process goal is how you get there.

Choosing wisely is difficult because it is counterintuitive. It is much easier to put a laundry list together of all the possible things you need to get done each day than it is to actually choose your one most important task and then master it.

Evaluation is the genesis of improvement, however if the evaluation isn’t done correctly it will be counterproductive. Unfortunately most people learn to evaluate with the perfectionist mentality.

Process goals, on the other hand, are the daily activities that cause the desired results or product goal. These will typically be your “3 Most Important / 1 Must” commitments daily.

Greatness is predicated on consistently doing things others can’t or won’t do. Simply put, success is not about being brilliant. It is about being consistent.

When you define success by your effort, anything is truly achievable. And when you consistently work toward your goals—and honestly evaluate that effort—you will begin to deserve the success that comes. When it does, you will feel a tremendous sense of validation that doesn’t just come when you make your numbers or achieve certain statistics. You