Magical Thinking - Building new positive habits and destroying old negative habits, is a ....

Building new positive habits and destroying old negative habits, is a day-by-day process.

It's true that many factors outside your control, do affect your destination.

·         There may be serious illness or death in your family;

·         The job you're gunning for may be dissolved,

·         you may meet with an accident.

So here is a point we must fix firmly in mind:

prepare to take detours (alternatives) in stride

It's a rare person, who has achieved high-level success, who has not had to take detours. When we detour, we don't have to change our goals.

We just travel a different route

The biggest and most rewarding kind of investment is self investment.

The progressive business knows that how strong it will be five years from now depends not on what it does five years in the future but rather on what it does, invests, this year.  

Profit comes from only one source: investment.

There's a lesson for each of us. 

To profit, to get the extra reward above a "normal" income in the years ahead, we must invest in ourselves.

Here are two sound self-investments that will pay handsome profits in the years ahead

1. Invest in education: A diploma or degree may help you get a job, but it will not guarantee your progress on the job. "Business is interested in competency, not diplomas. How well educated a person is, is measured by how well his mind is developed-in brief, by how well he thinks.

2. Invest in idea starters: Resolve to purchase at least one stimulating book each month and subscribe to two magazines or journals that stress ideas. Again, take your cue from the successful people. Invest in yourself.