Brian Tracy spent his career studying self-made millionaires, looking for what they actually have in common. Three things kept showing up.
1. They decide.
Indecisive people aren’t missing information. They’re scared. Fear of failure freezes them — they want a guarantee before they move, and there isn’t one. Tracy’s twist is the part that frees you up: successful people don’t make the right decision every time. They make the decision, then make it right. They move, get feedback, adjust. So they take their time on the big stuff. Then they actually decide.
2. They launch before it’s ready.
There’s a study out of Babson College that followed entrepreneurs for twelve years. The ones who made it had one thing in common. They launched. Got the idea, plunged in, figured it out on the way down. The ones who didn’t? Still waiting. Still running one more check. Still telling themselves it’s almost ready.
And here’s the line that sticks.
Things will never be just right.
Not your launch. Not your finances. Not the timing. Never. You go anyway, or you don’t go.
3. They have self-discipline.
Tracy calls this the foundation of all of it. And he keeps the definition brutally simple — doing what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
Anybody can launch. Launching is easy. Enduring is the rare thing. And that’s where the real payoff lives, because it compounds. Every time you push through on a day you don’t feel like it, your discipline gets a little stronger. Stronger discipline lifts your self-respect. Higher self-respect makes you push harder next time.
Do that long enough and something happens.
You become unstoppable.
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—Sean
Source: Motivational Legends: Training, Development & Character for Personal Success
