The Billion Dollar Secret

Rafael Badziag interviewed 21 billionaires for his book “The Billion Dollar Secret” and found that six shared habits helped lead to their success. Badziag spent five years conducting face-to-face interviews with 21 self-made billionaire entrepreneurs around the world (defined as those with a net worth of at least $1 billion) and researching their lives and companies. He found that they share the same six habits, which created the foundation for their businesses and financial success.

BusinessInsider published six habits that the author claims are shared by all the billionaires he interviewed.

Here they are:

1. Billionaires wake up early .

2. Billionaires keep healthy.

3. Billionaires read. 

4. Billionaires contemplate. 

5. Billionaires develop routines and rituals. 

6. Billionaires practice discipline.

Source :

https://www.businessinsider.my/billionaire-study-six-habits-success-building-wealth-2019-6/

http://thebilliondollarsecret.com/

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The Secret of Happiness

When Gurdjieff (George Ivanovich Gurdjieff  was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Armenia, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness  referred to it as the "Fourth Way")  was a small boy, his dying grandfather summoned his beloved protégé to be by his side. Of Greek descent, the old man had studied the great Greek philosophers all his life and had a compelling piece of advice to pass on.

“Life is a constant stream of moments,” he said, drawing the nine-year-old Gurdjieff closer. “On their own, those moments are good and pure. But, the path of this stream is littered with the snares of urges and immoral choices. The more you give in to temptations, the worse your life will become. You understand what I’m saying?”

Gurdjieff nodded, his eyes welling up to hear the feeble voice of his grandpa. He knew this was perhaps their last interaction.

“I have no wealth to give you, no houses, no horses,” the old man said, “but, I have some golden words for you. You etch those on your mind, and you will never regret a day. You see, my boy, life will put you through innumerable tests and temptations. Don’t let them drag you down the perilous road of conceit or self-destruction. Carefully separate the good from the bad and then choose the former. Good choices lead to good outcomes.”

 “But, how will I know what is good?” Gurdjieff asked.

“It’s hard to say. There’s no certain way of figuring that out but I can give you the rule of thumb: whenever you are hurting anyone or telling lies, it’s unlikely to be a good thing. One day, it’ll come back and haunt you. Remember what Aristotle said, ‘A pursuit of honor or material wealth can’t be the highest good. Instead, it is what helps you maximize your faculties as a human being.’ In simple words, you must strive to become a better human being. You understand?”

Gurdjieff nodded again and said, “I promise you, Grandpa, I will.”

“Now that you have given me your word,” the old man said, “I can give you the secret of happiness, of living a life of goodness. You listening carefully?”

“Yes.”

“Whenever you are tempted to do anything bad, or you are angry and want to give someone your piece of mind, just delay it by twenty-four hours. Never respond in haste. And, any time you have the opportunity to do any good, never postpone it. Do it immediately.

A series of good choices, a series of right actions eventually come around to insulate you from the undesirable situations and events in life. Really, it’s that simple. Good thoughts, words and actions culminate to become your shield. It’s not that life will stop shooting arrows, but you stand protected.

Source: ”The Secret of Secrets ”  by Osho

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The Secret of Mastery

The phenomenal Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was sitting in a small cafe in France. Waiting for his third cup of coffee, while a smoldering cigarette rested in an ashtray, he was doodling on a paper napkin. Oblivious to Picasso, another patron, a woman from an adjacent table, had been observing keenly. A few minutes later Picasso put his pencil down, lifted the napkin and stared at it blankly, as if he wasn’t pleased with it or maybe it needed more work. He was then about to crumple the serviette when the lady spoke.

“Don’t!” she hollered, almost startling Picasso. “I’ll take it.”
He gave her a curious look and kept silent a few moments longer than one would usually in a similar situation.

“I’ll pay you for it,” the woman continued and reached out for her handbag. “It’s not for gifting or sale,” Picasso said with indifference.

“Oh yeah?” She pulled out her checkbook. “Maybe I can offer you a good price!”

“Done. Four million Francs.” This was roughly $10,000.

“That’s ridiculous!”

“Well, that’s the price.”

“But it only took you a few minutes!”

“No Madame.” Picasso folded the napkin and put it in his pocket. “This took me sixty years.”

While growing up, most of us have our sources of inspiration, our role models, people we admire, our super-heroes. These are the people who reached the pinnacle in their respective fields and the world labeled them as geniuses, child prodigies, talented, gifted and so on. For, they demonstrated not only an extraordinary skill but a great degree of effortlessness too. As if they just sat down and championed their art. Nothing could be further from truth than the assumption that they were born with it or somehow got it all too easy.

Effortlessness in anything comes from immense effort. The more mindful effort we put in any endeavor, the easier it gets to become naturally good at it. Whatever you wish to master, be it meditation or basketball or anything at all, be prepared to put in a lot of tiring hours. Keep at it. Mindfully. Keep reviewing and continue working. Gradually, you’ll discover that things that seemed difficult, even impossible at first are now well within your reach. 

Source: ”The Children Of Tomorrow”  by OM SWAMI

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The Secret of Achieving More with Less

 The secret in simple terms as per  Richard Koch ~~

  “Do more of what makes best use of time and money.”

You have probably observed that often the majority of output stem from the minority of input. It could happen in your business when the majority of sales come from a little subset of your products. Often this ratio is around, but not limited to 20% and 80%.

People expect life to be fair and balanced, but it’s not. That’s why it’s called the 80/20 rule or principle. Aka the Pareto principle, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.

“The 80/20 Principle tells us that, at any one point, a majority of any phenomenon will be explained or caused by a minority of the actors participating in the phenomenon, Eighty percent of the results come from the 20 percent of the causes, A few things are important, most are not.” ~~ Richard Koch

 Taken literally, this means that, for example, 80 per cent of what you achieve in your job comes from 20 per cent of the time spent. Thus for all practical purposes, four-fifths of the effort—a dominant part of it—is largely irrelevant. This is contrary to what people normally expect. So the 80/20 Principle states that there is an inbuilt imbalance between causes and results, inputs and outputs, and effort and reward. A good benchmark for this imbalance is provided by  the 80/20 relationship: a typical pattern will show that 80 per cent of outputs result from 20 per cent of inputs; that 80 per cent of consequences flow from 20 per cent of causes; or that 80 per cent of results come from 20 per cent of effort.

“The way to create something great is to create something simple.” ― Richard Koch

“Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.” — Richard Koch

Source : “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”  — Richard Koch

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