《Million Dollar Habits》Brain Tracy --Summary

You are where you are and what you are because of yourself.
Everything you are today,or ever will be in the future,is up to you.
Your life today is the sum total result of your choices,decisions and actions up to this point.
You can create your own future by changing your behaviors.
You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.

Just think! 
Everything that you are or ever will be is up to you.
And the only real limit on what you can be, do and have is the limit you place on your own imagination.
You can take complete control of your destiny by taking complete control of your thoughts,words and actions from this day forward.

psychology 
conditioned responses

Successful, happy,healthy,prosperous men and women easily,automatically and consistently do and say the right things in the right way at the right time.
How to define the word "success"?
Success is the ability to live your life the way you want to live it,doing what you most enjoy,surrounded by people who you admire and respect.

In larger sense,success is the ability to achieve your dreams,desires,hopes,wishes and goals in each of the important areas of your life.

All Habits Are Learned: the result of practice and repetition.
Healthy and Fit
Excellent Relationships
Do What You Love
Achieve Financial Independence:you have enough money so that you never have to worry about money again,to be completely free of financial
worries.
You are able to order dinner in a restaurant without looking at the right hand column to decide how hungry you are.
go from rags to riches in one generation.

By using your willpower and discipline, you can shape your personality and character in almost any way you desire. You can write the script of your own
life, and if you are not happy with the current script, you can rip it up and write it again.

Virtues:Temperance,tolerance,tranquility.
“We first make out habits, and then our habits make us.” (John Dryden)

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steadily gains in
strength. At first it may be as a spider’s web, easily broken through, but if not
resisted, it soon binds us with chains of steel.” (Tryon Edwards)

“The story of the human
race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.” (Abraham Maslow)

The challenge is that you come into the world with the most incredible brain,
surrounded by unlimited possibilities for success, happiness and achievement, but
you start off with no instruction manual.

Law of Cause and Effect:Everything happens for a reason. Nothing happens by accident. 

Nature is neutral. Nature does not favor one person over another.

If you want to be happy, healthy, prosperous,popular, positive and confident, just find out how other people who are enjoying
these benefits got that way and do the same things that they do.

 In every job, and in every situation, I started off by asking, “What are
the rules or principles for success in this area of activity?” I then read books,
attended courses, and asked everyone I could find for their insights and ideas.

Law of Control: Locus of Control Theory
"You feel happy to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your own life. You
feel unhappy to the degree to which you feel you are not in control of your own
life."

An internal locus of control and an external locus of control.
Your locus of control is where you feel the control exists in each area of your life.
This location determines your happiness or unhappiness more than any other factor.

If you feel that you are the primary creative force in your own life,
that you make your own decisions, and that everything that happens to you is a
result of yourself and your own behaviors, you have a solid internal locus of
control. As a result, you will feel strong, confident and happy.

If you feel that your life is controlled by other factors or people,
by your job, your boss, your childhood experiences, your bills, your health, your
family or anything else, you will have an external locus of control.
You will feel like a pawn in the hands of fate. 

learned helplessness：
You will feel helpless and unable to change or improve your
situation. You will soon develop the habit of blaming others and making excuses for your problems. 
This type of thinking leads inevitably to anger, frustration and failure. 

Law of Belief：
“Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.”
“Belief creates the actual fact.”
This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy and metaphysics.

“You do not believe what you see, but rather, you see what you already believe.”
Your deeply held beliefs form a screen of prejudices that distort your external reality and cause you to see things not the way they are, but the way you are.

self-limiting beliefs：
These are beliefs that you have developed through life, usually false, that cause you to believe that you are limited in some way. 
Your negative beliefs soon become habitual ways of thinking. 
You may believe that you lack intelligence, creativity, personality, the ability to speak publicly, the ability to earn a high income, the ability to lose weight, or the ability
to achieve your goals. 
As a result of your self-limiting beliefs, you continually “sell yourself short,” give up easily in the pursuit of a goal, and even worse, tell other
people around you that you lack certain qualities or abilities.
Your beliefs then become your realities.
“You are not what you think you are, but what you think,you are.”

You can develop the beliefs of courage, confidence and unstoppable persistence that you need for great success by reprogramming your subconscious
mind in a specific way.

Law of Expectations：
“Whatever you expect, with confidence, becomes your own self-fulfilling prophecy.” 
If you confidently expect something to happen, this expectation has a powerful effect on your attitude and your personality.

Law of Attraction：
“You are a living magnet; you invariably attract into your life the people, ideas and circumstances that harmonize with your dominant thoughts.”
The law of attraction says that your thoughts are activated by your emotions, either
positive or negative, and that they then create a force field of energy around you
that attracts into your life, like iron filings to a magnet, exactly the people and
circumstances that are in harmony with those thoughts.

The habit of keeping your mind full of exciting, positive, emotionalized pictures and images of the exact things you want to see materialize in your life, and in the world around you.

Law of Correspondence：
“Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.”
It is as though you live in a 360-degree mirror. Everywhere you look, you see yourself reflected back at you. 
People treat you the way you treat them.
In every case, your outer world reflects back to you, like a mirror image, exactly what you are thinking in the deepest
recesses of your mind.

When you put the Laws of Cause and Effect, Belief, Expectations, Attraction and
Correspondence together, you arrive at the great universal principle that explains
your life and everything that happens to you: “You become what you think about
– most of the time.”

Just think! You become what you think about most of the time. You always move
in the direction of your dominant thoughts. Everything in your outer world is
controlled and determined by what you are thinking in your inner world.

By taking complete control of your conscious thoughts, you can control the direction
of your life. By taking control, you will feel happy, powerful, confident and free.
You will become unstoppable.

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