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Here's your success mentor Darren Hardy.

It is time to rise and shine.

Here is the key insight used by the super achiever, coaches, athletes and top performers in any business.

It's this. Winning is determined by what happens

before the game. In our current work culture, we create so many tasks that we end up in a

constant state of doing without enough contemplation of what we are doing

and how we can do it more effectively. I know some people who are constantly

working, continually executing and stressed and frazzled because of it, but at the end of the week,

the end of the month, or end of the year, their results don't end up adding up to much, and they don't seem to

get any better at what they're doing along the way. That sound familiar? Not anymore. Don't let that person be you. In order to advance your life further, faster, and with less time and less effort, you need to learn to plan.

Planning will give you 10 times greater chance of achieving your goals.

It will reduce wasted time and effort while improving and maximizing on your results.

As Henry Ford said, before everything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

The book Learning to Think Strategically explains how Japanese executives are required to block

out at least two hours every day when they simply do nothing but think. No phone calls, no computers, no paperwork, no

interruptions, no exceptions. During this time, they are asked to stop movement.

Think through the actions they are about to take over the next day, over the next 90 days, and for the next five years.

They are required to back up from the trees, so to speak, so that they can see the whole forest.

They plan and assess the strategic value of their actions and the actions of their team

and their organization before moving forward.

This process allows them to constantly stay on strategy, dismiss distracting projects, and continue

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