The Best of Brian Tracy

• The Law of Time PerspectiveBy Brian Tracy

The most successful people in any
society are those who take the longest
time period into consideration when
making their day-to-day decisions. This
insight comes from the pioneering work
on upward financial mobility in America
conducted by Dr. Edward Banfield of
Harvard University in the late 1950's
and early 1960's.

After studying many of
the factors that were thought to
contribute to individual financial success
over the course of a person's lifetime, he
concluded that there was one primary
factor that took precedence over all the
others. He called it “time perspective.”
Plant Trees

What Banfield found was that the higher
a person rises in any society, the longer
the time perspective or time horizon of
that person. People at the highest social
and economic levels make decisions and
sacrifices that may not pay off for many
years, sometimes not even in their own
lifetimes. They “plant trees under which
they will never sit.”

Doctor.

An obvious example of someone with a
long time perspective is the man or
women who spends ten or twelve years
studying and interning to become a
doctor. This person takes extraordinarily
long time to lay down the foundation for
a lifetime career. And partially because
we know how long it takes to become a
doctor, we hold doctors in the highest
esteem of any professional group. We
appreciate and admire the sacrifices that
they have made in order to be able to
practice a profession that is so
important to so many of us. We
recognize their long time perspectives.

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Long Time Perspectives.

People with long term perspectives are
willing to pay the price of success for a
long, long time before they achieve it.
They think about the consequences of
their choices and decisions in terms of
what they might mean in five, ten,
fifteen, and even twenty years from now.

Short Time Perspectives

People at the lowest levels of society
have the shortest time perspectives.
They focus primarily on immediate
gratification and often engage in
behaviors that are virtually guaranteed
to lead to negative consequences in the
long term. At the very bottom of the
social ladder, you find hopeless
alcoholics and drug addicts. These
people think in terms of the next drink
or the next fix. Their time perspective is
often less than one hour.

Delayed Gratification is the Key to
Financial Success

Your ability to practice self-mastery,
self-control, and self-denial, to sacrifice
in the short term so you can enjoy
greater rewards in the long term, is the
starting point of developing a long time
perspective. This attitude is essential to
financial achievement of any kind.

Action Exercise

Practice a long term perspective in every
area of your life, especially in your
financial life but also with your family
and your health. Think of where you
would ideally like to be in five years and
begin today to take steps in that
direction.

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"Your ability to discipline yourself "to do
what you should, when you should do it,
whether you feel like it or not," is the
key to becoming a great person and
living a great life. When you develop the
habits of self-discipline, you will
accomplish more in a month than most
people accomplish in a year.

"Nothing splendid has ever been
achieved except by those who dared to
believe that something inside them was
superior to circumstance." -Bruce Barton

This quote is extremely valuable
because it pinpoints the fact that what
you believe to be true about yourself,
you will ultimately become....


This quote is extremely valuable because it pinpoints the fact that what you believe to be true about yourself, you will ultimately become.

The same goes for your goals and success. If you believe whole heartedly that you can and will achieve all of your goals and reach the success that you deserve, there is no doubt that you will.

As Peter Drucker said, "The very best way to predict the future is to create it."

Your happiness and future success is completely up to you.

Find out exactly what it is that you want, and then get busy at making sure you reach it.

If we want the best we need to expect the best. We create our futures by controlling our thoughts which transmits to actions. .............................

If you aren't aware of this, you will try to find out if you can do it through analysis. And you will never be completely sure that you can do something through analysis. You can only be sure when you really decide...........................

As Peter Drucker said, "The very best way to predict the future is to create it." Love it!...................

I realized the secret of mind... but some times negative factors dominate our mind.

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