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Here's your success mentor, Darren Hardy.

Rise and shine, my friends. Are you ready for step three? Well, here's a key insight used by the super achiever, coaches, athletes, and top performers in most any endeavor.

I want to show you how to win most every time.

You see, winning is determined by what happens before the game even begins.

You see, in our current work culture, we create so many tasks that we end up in a constant state of doing without enough actual contemplation and planning of what

we want to do and how we want to do it effectively. I know some people who are constantly working,

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

or month or year, their results don't end up being much at all. And they don't seem to get better at what they're

doing along the way. Does that sound familiar? I hope not. And what I want to hope is that it doesn't

happen 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. You see, planning

will give you a 10 times greater chance to achieve your goals. If you reduce wasted time and effort

while improving and maximizing results, you're most likely going to win. 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 actually required

to block out at least two hours a day to do simply nothing. But think. No phone calls, no computers,

no paperwork, no interruptions, and no exceptions. During this time,

they're asked to stop their movement and just think through the actions that they're about to

take over the next 90 days or over the next five years. They're required to back up from the

trees so that they can actually see the full forest. They plan and assess the strategic

value of their actions and the actions of the team and the organization before moving forward.

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