Yo, today's QOD is successful people think about what they want most of the time.

Here we go. Welcome back to the quarter of the day show.

I'm your host, Sean Croxton and Sean Croxon.com.

We got Brian Tracy on the show talking about the universal law of cause and effect.

For every effect, there is a cause. There is something that made that happen. It just didn't happen out of nowhere.

So if the effect that you want is success,

then of course, what you do is find somebody you can model. Find somebody who's done the thing

that you want to do and learn what were the causes for the effect that you desire?

And also understand it's not just the things that the person did.

It's also the way they thought.

Brian Tracy's coming up.

So here's what I found.

The law of causes and effect is the oldest law in history.

It is the foundation law of Western philosophy.

I learned this later. It was first called the Aristotelian principle of causality. If everyone

to impress someone, tell them, oh, yes, that sounds like Aristotle's principle. They'll never catch

you. But Aristotle at 300 B.C. in Athens, it as academy, began to say that all of life is explicable, is that life is not

a matter of gods on Mount Olympus and Zeus and throwing lightning bolts and a series of

mysterious events. He said, we live in a world governed by order, that there's a logical reason

for everything that happens. Do you know that we have today laws of physics and laws of

mathematics and laws of science and laws of mathematics and

laws of science and laws of medicine and biology and laws of neutrons and so on? We have all these

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