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Chapter Eight Planning for Success Brian Tracy There is a rule that “before you do anything, you have to do something else first.” The first thing you have to do in business is to plan, and plan again, and keep planning until your plans work consistently to get you the results you want. The major reason for business failure is, first, failure to plan in advance and, second, failure to revise your plans if they do not work for some reason. Failing to plan is planning to fail. What is the highest-paid work in business? Answer: Thinking! Thinking is the highest-paid work because of a special factor called “consequences.” You can always determine how valuable and important something is by measuring the potential consequences of doing it or not doing it. The potential consequences of having a cup of coffee or chatting with a coworker are virtually zero. It does not matter at all whether you do them or not. But the consequences of planning, of thinking through your actions before you begin, can be enormous. They can make all the difference between success and failure, poverty 63
The Power of the Platform - Speakers on Purpose and wealth, happiness and unhappiness, a life of affluence or a life of despair. Everything you are or ever will be is the result of your choices and decisions. Your choices and decisions have brought you to where you are today. If you are not happy about your current situation, then you must make new choices and better decisions for the future. There is no other way. And thinking is the essential ingredient in both choices and decision-making. Start with Your Goals In planning for success, you always start with yourself and your personal goals. Remember: your work and business life are means to an end. They are the things that you do so that you can enjoy the most important parts of your life – your family and your relationships. Fully, 85 percent of your happiness in life will come from your relationships with other people. The greater clarity you have about what is really important to you, the better decisions you will make in both your business and personal life. Remember the great question: “What do I really want to do with my life?” If you could wave a magic wand and be, do, or have anything at all in life, what would you choose for yourself? If you had all the time and money, all the friends and contacts, all the knowledge and experience, and no limitations at all, what would you really 64
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