No Excuses

10 Top Lessons From the Book “ No Excuses”

1. Set a deadline for your goal.

What do you do if you don’t achieve your goal by your deadline?

Simple. You set another deadline.

2. Write your goal

Then discipline yourself to generate twenty answers to the question: “How can I achieve this goal?”.

3. The fact is that “if you’re not getting better, you’re getting worse”.

4. Look ahead three to five years

Determine the new knowledge and skills you will need in order to lead your field in the future.

Then start acquiring them today.

5. Select the top person in your field

The one you admire most, and use him or her as a role model for our own development.

6. Failures feel sorry for themselves when things go wrong,

whereas successful people look for the valuable lesson they can learn that will help them in the future.

7. In life, it doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down.

All that matters is how many times you get back up.

If you continue to get back up and press onward, you must eventually reach your goal.

8. Simple three-part formula for success at work:

come in little earlier, work a little harder, and stay a little later.

9. Only your actions tell you- and others- what you truly value.

10. If you increase your exercise level to 60 minutes each time, five time per week, you will be in the top 1 or 2 % of physically fit people in the world today.