Archive for May, 2009

I read a lot.  As a Keynote Speaker and a Key Note Taker, I have to.  It’s my job and my passion.  My new favorite book is Albert E. N. Gray’s The New Common Denominator of Success.  Here are my Key Notes:

1. The common denominator of success – the secret of successful people – he or she has formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.
2. Successful people don’t like doing these activities any more than unsuccessful people.  They just do it.
3. Success is achieved by the minority and, therefore, unnatural and not to be achieved by following our natural likes and dislikes, nor guided by our natural preferences and prejudices.  Your natural likes and dislikes got you where you are today.
4. Successful people have a purpose strong enough to form the habit of doing the things they don’t like to do in order to accomplish the purpose they want to accomplish.
5. Habits form futures.  If we don’t deliberately form success habits then, unconsciously, you will form non-success habits.

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