Success Notes Page 5
• Review information the next day after you have learnt it, then in a week’s time, then at the end of the month and then in 6 months time and you will have excellent recall.
• Record notes onto audio tape and then listen to them for revision.
• Combine review sessions or reading with classical music for whole brain learning.
• Some people say we have passed from the information age to the communication age. It is not only how much you know, but how well you can communicate it.
• People remember short sentences the best.
• People who do not make mistakes do not make progress. Therefore every error is a sign of progress.
• Separate yourself from your mistakes, a mistake doesn’t mean you are bad just that you haven’t learnt the right way to do it yet.
• Mistakes show you what you need to pay attention to. Try to spot the type of mistakes you make and work to avoid those. Most mistakes are of similar types even though you may make a lot.
• Ask people for advice. People like to give advice. Not all people’s advice is worth listening to, listen to people who give good advice and don’t be defensive.
• You can’t choose what happens to you, but you can choose how you react.
• Successful people do things for themselves, rather than waiting for others to do it for them.
• Happiness is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal.
• One new idea is all you need to start a fortune. Do something just a little bit differently or better than what everyone else is doing.
• People who are totally committed to something, are totally absorbed by it, are the people who are most likely to become successful in it.
• Most fears disappear when you confront them head on.
• Develop the quality of being unstoppable. No matter what life throws at you, you pick yourself up and keep going.
• Self esteem is the very foundation for all success in life.
• If you do what successful people do you will be more successful.
• You must know exactly what you want to be, have and do in order to become successful.
• You have to have a dream to make your dream come true. You must have a vision of where you want to go and what you want to be in life. Vision must be big enough to excite you, otherwise it won’t motivate you to do anything.
• Losers are activity orientated people. They focus so hard on the activity but lose sight of the result. Successful people are result orientated people. The worse thing you can do is work very efficiently at something that doesn’t need doing at all.
• Always ask yourself what results are expected of you.
• People like to do what is fun and easy over what is hard and necessary. This comes at the expense of long term failure in life.