HIGH-POWERED SHORTCUTS

It's claimed that I am the most well-read human of 43 in all of our history, averaging one to three books per day for approximately 11,000 days. Perhaps 75 of those have been read up to 9 or 10 times each. If only allowed to offer 2 authors to the world, I suppose they'd be James Herriot and Dr Maxwell Maltz. One gives joy in living on a day to day basis, the other teaches us how to turn virtually any thought or desire into reality in 100 days or less, any dream you might have. The book spawned at least 4,000 others, and countless world records. Dr. Maltz's book teaches it so well, just as Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" (more than 4,000 millionaires have publicly or privately stated very clearly that "Think and Grow Rich" was the single event that turned them into millionaires). In fact, Dr Maltz, America's first 'premiere' plastic surgeon, turned away more candidates for vanity surgery than he accepted. With his simple book (fancy title of "PsychoCybernetics"), he so thoroughly teaches the most powerful of Life's master shortcuts that just this one book singledhandedly planted a seed that has grown into many thousands of carefully-researched books, tapes, videos, careers, even an industry. The whole lot of them bring great messages: Harvey Mackay, Shakespeare, Napoleon Hill, Socrates, Lincoln, Sun Tzu, Epictetus…they're all great, they're all wise. From Goethe to Voltaire, Anthony Robbins to Zig Ziglar, Earl Nightingale, Brian Tracy, Dyer, Denis Waitley /b>(a giant unto himself), Schuler, Peale, and literally every big name in peak performance… I have all their books, and tapes, some rather well-worn from repetition. They're all great, they're all wise, and wealthy, etc. Basically, they all say the same few things. Repetition is the basis of every human skill All great wisdom, all great wishes, and all great achievements, are brief, & can be "seen" on our mental video with emotion... and in writing. No matter what you point your finger at, it is made up of smaller components, which were assembled just one at a time, most often by taking it apart and working backwards. 99% of you are convinced that you understand these. Most of you are sadly mistaken, and the perfect proof? Look at your life. Either it's close to perfect, or it's not. If it's heading towards perfection, it's because you do understand those few magical powers. If it's not, it's because you do not understand those few magical powers. Sorry to pop your bubble about how smart you think you are. Simple fact: How smart you are is NOT determined by what you know. How smart you are is determined by what you DO with what you know. It's the only possible way you can prove to yourself, let alone to the world, whether or not you really do understand any given piece of wisdom. The very same day that you understand that every single great person was considered a jerk or loser or average geek or boring or just fat or just this or that…. until the minute they made a decision to take at least one step towards a dream every single day, at least eight or nine days per week…that's the day your results will begin doubling QUICKLY. Everything you have ever learned to do with excellence, such as speaking, or, the task you've spent more time on than any other in your life… tying your shoelaces (we try thousands of times before we get it), and everything else that you're good at….. look at the few rules of perfectly powerful shortcuts. They do not fail. That's why the US produced a new millionaire, on average, 899 times per day, seven days per week, for more than five years. Do you understand? 6,300 NEW US millionaires EVERY WEEK for seven years….328,571 new US millionaires every year for seven years. Every piece of great wisdom, every single shortcut discovered or developed… EVERY GREAT FACT OR OPINION… is connected to those items of wisdom. Repetition is the cause of every human skill All great wisdom, wishes, & great achievements are briefly described, & can be "seen" on our mental video with emotion... and in writing. No matter what you point your finger at, it is made up of smaller components, which were assembled ONE at a time. 1) Repetition of a thought, or action, including asking. 2) Described briefly, "seen" on mental video... and in writing. 3) Smaller components assembled just ONE at a time. If you did nothing but focus on items 1, 2, and 3 above…. 14 minutes per day (that's 1% of your time), within 10 days you will see huge, huge, huge, huuuuuuuuuuge changes happening in your life. When you do begin to understand these 3 shortcuts at a deeper level than you do now, you'll use these awesome powers to revolutionize every facet of your life, personally, financially, professionally, sexually, & more, in less than a minute. However arrogant this may sound, every month, I read more books than you read in a year. Every year or so, I read as much as most of you have read in your whole lives. In the past thirty-three years, I figure I've read more than everyone you know… all added up together… There has never, in all of human history, been even ONE SINGLE HUMAN BEING who succeeded without screwing up first. That's rule #1: they repeatedly try. First they screw up, then they succeed.

They can tell you exactly what they want… in ten words or less. They are very emotional about what they want!! (They can tell you precisely WHY they want it and what they get out of it) They ask more people to say "YES."

Think I'm kidding, or exaggerating? Go find yourself a master or millionaire, Olympic Champion or billionaire; one who YOU think is successful, however you define successful. They ask themselves, and others, more times. I promise & unconditionally guarantee they used those 3 shorcuts to success, whether or not they consciously realized it at the time. By the time they DO become world-class, they are consciously aware of this It would seem that I'm in an excellent position to know this: I personally interviewed and/or broke bread with 1,200 self-made millionaires, & have interviewed, spent time with, and/or dined with, and/or studied the in-depth lives, actions & words of more 5,200 of the most incredibly supersuccessful people on the planet. That's precisely how I went from being a zero to proving many surgeons wrong by defeating a wheelchair and worse (subsequent to being hit by drunk driver at 100+ MPH) earning serious sums of money just for speaking… and giving 95% of it away; broke or shattered 177 records for five big NY companies, learned new languages in my late thirties; play guitar, piano, harmonica, autoharp, zither, and enough drums to get by, and have read so far nearly 17,000 books, along with countless magazines, treatises, 'white papers' and more; have solved many hundreds of the toughest word and crossword puzzles ever produced; learned how to paint, ride motorcycles, train animals and produce/direct commercials; speak on my own radio shows, and so much more, thanks to the people who did it first and did it better... ...and thanks to a simple, life-changing commitment of just fourteen minutes per day. It will quickly revolutionize your life. I did not accomplish these things through looks, brains, connections, or talent…because I have few of these qualities. I simply shut up and found five or more people doing it better than me, wrote or called them one at a time and said, "We both know you're great at what you do, one of the best, and before I die I'd like to contribute to the world the way you do. May I buy you lunch or dinner so you can be my mentor for a half-hour?" How many do you think responded affirmatively? If you personally wrote or called with such a message to 900 of the most supersuccessful authors or businesspeople, how many do YOU think would respond affirmatively? GUESS WHAT?? You haven't got the foggiest idea, and you have no right to a valid opinion until you do it!!! It's the same way with everything… EVERYTHING WE DO: Shut up until you've done it. Stop asking people who haven't done it. Ask MORE of the people who HAVE done it. Not your mother or husband: ask people who have already done it or ARE DOING IT NOW! They're the ONLY ones with the right to speak! If you are capable of reading this, and tying your shoelaces, you are capable of becoming rich and famous in 100 days or less, or making 99% of any and all human dreams come true in 100 days or less… or at the very, very worst and least, you will be closer to it in 100 days…..than you have gotten in all the years of your life… all added together up until now. Just put your dream in writing Put it on your mental video with emotion for just five uninterrupted minutes per day Resolve to ask at least 3 people for help every day for 100 days. Before 100 days have passed you will be far, far, FAR ahead of where you are right now. 32,000 human skills. Which one excites YOU the most? It's YOUR turn! Repetition is the cause of every human skill All great wisdom, wishes,& great achievements are briefly described, & can be "seen" on our mental video with emotion.. Everything you touch is made up of smaller components, assembled ONE at a time. Are you getting the hint yet? What could POSSIBLY be stopping you from playing pretend for just 15 UNINTERRUPTED minutes pr day? I'm telling you, I'm assuring you with the utmost vigor of discourse, guaranteeing to you, UNCONDITIONALLY, that you playing your favorite mental video for 15 uninterrupted minutes per day will bring astonishing and wonderful and happy changes in your life WITHIN A WEEK OR TWO at most… or as quickly as a few minutes. You are repetitiously, repeatedly, told unto redundancy that you have no right to a valid opinion on any subject on this earth until you personally have CONSIDERABLE experience at it. Until then, please, please…. shut up. Follow the steps of those you admire the most, whoever they are. Not what you know….. rather, what you DO with what you know. THAT's what we'd like to know about you. Whether today is a finger-snapping, toe-tapping, star-SPANGLED day for YOU, as it certainly is for me, is nothing more, or less, than a choice... ...mine, and yours. Go for the gold!!!

Ruby's Rubies -- Shortcuts to Success

Philosophers and great leaders throughout all of recorded history have disagreed on just about any and every subject we could name. Notice that I wrote "...just about any and every..." There is one area in which all great minds appear to agree, literally without exception. This alone commands absolute attention from any rational thinker seeking a better way, and more so the thinker who seeks a faster way.

Harvard University, Princeton, Stanford's Brain Trust, many other universities and research organizations, along with individual giants in the fields of psychology and motivation, such as Dr. Abram Maslow, Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar, Anthony Robbins, Denis Waitley, and countless others, have all demonstrated time and time again that high achievers and peak performers are consistent... perhaps even obsessive goal-setters.

People who have long & consistent histories of being low achievers? Once they begin listing and pursuing their goals on a literally day-to-day basis, end up being SUPERperformers! I understand that 90%-plus of U.S. millionaires go broke at least twice... and then rebuild their fortunes. A ship's captain doesn't get to see his destination -- or target (goal) -- for fully 99% of his voyage. Many times along the way, wind, tide, mechanical problems, & other factors will take him off-course. By making the necessary corrections along the way, he'll eventually get to where he wants to go.

Is your life, or mine, any different? We ALL have places that we'd like to go... enjoying a better relationship with our spouses or children; obtaining a higher position in our organization; travel to foreign lands, or even within our own country; learning a new trade; earning more money in our current field; maybe entering a new career that we dreamed about as teenagers... your chances of making it happen actually multiply when you take the trouble to put your wish on paper, & break it into smaller steps. This empowers you to notice what corrections need to be made along the way.

The more I study, the more impressed I am with the sheer simplicity and effectiveness of goal-setting; and of how much it changes the lives of people who accept the importance of setting goals... written goals.

So why is it that only 4 to 5 percent of us really reach out & strive to change those dreams from a "Gee, I wish I..." into hard fact? Are you willing to live the remaining years of your life with the knowledge that those we leave behind will NOT be able to say about us, "Yes, he lived his life as he wished;" or "Yes, she reached out for her lifetime goals by taking daily steps year in and year out"??

We get one shot at Life. That "shot" is today. If you screwed up yesterday, that's cool... because today is one single day in which you can change the direction you've been headed in. If you have no written goals & plans, then I'll bet that most of the past 100-500 days have found you doing the same old thing, day in, day out, w/ barely-noticeable digression from consistent mediocrity.

In one study alone, as Senior Associate Director of the Who's Who Registry, I asked several thousand -upper-level decision makers-"To what do you attribute your success?" The most consistent response I received from Chairmen of the Board, Presidents, CEO's, and other top executives, was: "sSetting specific goal... and referring back to them over and over.."
It seems to me that we have a responsibility to get the most out of our one lifetime. More importantly than what I think, I'd like to know what YOU think. Talk is cheap. Why not pick up pen & paper right now? Put a date on a dream, it's not a dream any longer; rather, a finite target and goal, with an attendant ability to measure every finite step of progress. Your willingness to accept and act upon this within the next minutes of your life has an equal and opposite power to make it happen for you faster and faster and faster than you've ever approached a worthwhile desire in your life.

Answer this question to yourself with as much honesty as you can:

Should you personally interview four thousand self-made millionaires, and more than three thousand and nine hundred of them specifically refer to written goal-setting in identfying how they got so rich, would it be enough for you to realize that the act of writing a goal is in itself a huge and powerful tool that is guaranteed to bring you closer, and faster, to your greatest desires?

How hard can it be to write down the 3 things you'd most like in life, and then breaking each one down into thirty or forty or sixty smaller steps? How about one step for each of the next 30 months?

A thousand days might sound like a great deal. In reality, life flashes by so quickly that you can remember the last thousand days of your life as if they were just a few weeks or months. The thousand days ahead of you will zoom by as quickly as these past 1000 days have flown by. Stick a ten-dollar bill in a jar every day for a thousand days and you've got yourself seed money for two or more businesses, don't you?

We'll close for now with just one question, one we hope you'll give at least fifteen solid minutes of consideration to between this minute, and the minute you next put your head on a pillow to sleep.

Let's consider having more than enough time, money, support, and whatever other resources you might require. Answering ONLY yourself for now,

If it were impossible for you to fail, what three things would YOU accomplish in the next 1000 days?

Those few of you w/ enough sense to answer in WRITTEN detail will notice impressive advances--
in the next 10 to 30 days!! I think it's time to stop talking...
... and get busy writing, yes?