p.19 This book will show you how to improve your life, achieve your goals and realize your full potential
for success and happiness. No matter who you are or what your situation, you have within you, right now, the ability
to accomplish more than you have before. You have the potential to exceed all your previous levels of accomplishment.
p.21 Over the years, mostly in retrospect, I've learned a variety of lessons, and one of the most important
is this: You can't hit a target you can't see. You can't accomplish wonderful things with your life if you
have no idea of what they are. You must first become absolutely clear about what you want if you are serious
about unlocking the extraordinary power that lies within you.
Every success I've ever enjoyed came after I had taken the time to think through what my
goal would look like when it was accomplished.
p.43 The Law of Cause and Effect says that there are specific causes of success and there are specific causes
of failure... If there is an effect in your life that you want more of, you merely need to trace it back to the causes
and repeat the causes. If there is an effect in your life that you do not enjoy, you need to trace it back to the causes and
get rid of them.
p.48 The Law of Expectations says that whatever you expect with confidence becomes your own self-fulfilling
prophecy. To put it another way, what you get is not necessarily what you want in life, but what
you expect.
p.138, 139 In twenty-five years of study and experience, I've come to the conclusion that success
equals goals, and all else is commentary. Intense goal orientation is an essential characteristic of all high-achieving
men and women, in every study, in every field. It's not possible to realize even a fraction of your potential until
you have learned how to set and achieve goals as normally and naturally as you brush your teeth or comb your hair in the morning...
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement
p.164, 165 Make a list of all the obstacles that stand between you and the accomplishment of your
goal... What is the biggest single obstacle that stands between you and your goal? ... The second
question you must ask yourself in identifying what might be holding you back is, "What is my limiting step?"
What part of the process of moving from where you are now to the achievement of your goal determines the speed at which you
reach it? ... In almost every case, there is a limiting step. This bottleneck determines how rapidly you move toward
your goal. Your job is to identify your limiting step and then do everything possible to relieve it.
Sometimes the alleviation of one chokepoint, if it's the right one, can do more to move you forward than any other single
thing you could do.
