Rory Vaden discusses in his book, the analogy to take the stairs instead of waiting for the escalator. We all want to be successful and happy, but tend to look for the easiest way to attain it. We look for the escalator.
He shares discipline is the key component we need not only to succeed in business success, but in life.
As started by multiple successful individuals such as Robert Kiyosaki, and Vaden, Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, our mind and our time are the most valuable asset we have. Alongside this, Vaden mentions early on in his book the importance of procrastination, which is seen to be one of the most expensive and visible costs in businesses today.
Vaden address is disturbing truth that today we live in a ProcrastiNation.
“Unwilling to taking on the tough challenges we face, and seeking immediate gratification instead of real growth and change.”
Vaden shares seven principles for simplifying self-disciplined to unleash your potential:
#1 Sacrifice:
Choices that are easy and their short-term are very often in direct conflict with what makes life easy in the long-term. Successful people know that feelings and impulses don’t tend to last long, they are short term. So while most people make decisions based on the short-term emotion, successful people make sacrifices because they base their decisions on long-term logic.
#2 Commitment
It’s simply that more we have invested in something, the less likely we are to let it fail.
We don’t realize that I have in the neutral attitude of, I’m not sure, we are continually giving up on ourselves, turning back at just the critical moment, right before we would have succeeded. That has attends causes us to naturally gravitate away from making the commitment that’s right in front of us and we’re sets the cycle of us getting what we’ve always gotten.
A life of average, or a life of mediocre, doesn’t come from having a bad attitude. A life of average comes from having an average attitude. Attitude is simply the way you choose to see things.
#3 Focus
An essential step toward improving our self discipline is improving our focus. When we have diluted focus, we get diluted results. Another way of looking at it is minimizing the amount of distractions that occurs in life.
I was engaged in activities all day, but I wasn’t making progress. I was being efficient, but I wasn’t being effective. I was doing things right, but I wasn’t doing the right things. An absence of discipline Focus, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day. The only question now is am I willing to pay the price that is greater than anyone else.
#4 Integrity
At any given moment we are either choosing to focus and what were grateful for or worrying about the things we’ve not been given.
Why do you speak to people not just for who they are but for who they can become, you create a positive way of being for them to live into the future. By this rule, we think it, we speak it, they act, it happens.
Holding people accountable. Many people would like to be held accountable to what is best for them, yet it can be hard to do that when nobody wants to be criticized or to offer criticism to others. If you can Master it the delicate balance of holding people accountable without holding them hostage you will have dramatically increased your ability to facilitate change.
We must get control of our work and our integrity before we can get control of our life.
#5 Schedule
Balance sheet mean equal time spent on equal activities. But a balance should be an appropriate time spent on critical priorities.
Instead of asking, how much can I get done today? We should be asking, what is the most effective thing I could be doing right now with the time I have available, this small shift can yield massive results.
#6 Faith
I believe that faith is not just turning around waiting for God to make things happen. Instead, I believe the prerequisite for getting results is I must first do my part.
Don’t let your self-worth be defined by outcomes rather than effort. A, take the stairs mindset means knowing that today’s work turns into next week’s success.
If you’re not doing your best, if you’re not doing every single little thing that you know how to, if you are not working with maximum intensity, then get your butt moving. You are not doing yourself any favors by meandering. You are allowing your dreams to fall victim to your inaction. You are trading what you want most for what you want right now. Most of all you’re denying yourself the rich a reward of hard one success.
#7 Action!
The problem for most of us is not as much a matter of skill as it is a matter of will. You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking, than to think your way into healthy acting.
This book peaked my interest to make the most of my time, I honestly picked it up to maximize how I spend my time, and Vaden reshaped my views… at the end of discipline it is not time management but self- management.
I think this book is a great read for everyone! Vaden explains the importance to improve your mindset on life, and how you choose to perceive and interpret it!
“The purpose of a take the stairs mindset, it is to set you up with a life you can’t wait to live every day…once you have formed the habit of self-discipline in every area of your life, you won’t want a day off. You will have a life that you love and it won’t be temporary, it’ll be permanent.”
“Law of Action, says that it does not matter what we say we believe, our real beliefs are revealed by how we act.”
I will leave you with the same statements and questions Vaden finished his book with:
“If we can learn to make ourselves do the things we don’t want to do, then we have literally created the power to create any results in our lives. Discipline creates freedom.”
“What is procrastination costing you and your life? What actions are you going to take? What is it you’ve known for a while you should be doing and you don’t want to? What are you going to do about it? You can’t just recognize your inadequacies, you need to resolve them.”
The most vital direction to focus on is forward. Be relentless in everything you do and put forth your absolute best effort. Your success is hidden in how you discipline your mind and utilize your time.
If you have read Vaden’s book Take The Stairs, or any of he’s other writings I would love to hear your perceptive and views. Also any additional books you have read with similar concepts as Vaden has shared.
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