9 Habits Highly Effective People Dont Do and How to Break Them.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
In 1980, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were at an all-time high. The Lake Placid Winter Olympics were seen not only as a time for nations to come together, but also as a time of rivalry. Americans and Soviets alike rooted for their countries to beat the other and show dominance on a world stage.
One of the most unlikely events happened at the Winter Olympics that year. The Soviet Union were the undisputed champions of ice hockey worldwide. They'd won four straight Olympic gold medals and every World Championship in ten years. The Soviet team were professional winners, and the United States was forming a hodgepodge group of college kids to challenge them.
Nobody expected the American team to be able to compete with the Soviet team, except for one person: Herb Brooks. Herb Brooks believed that if he changed the way his team trained, they could be the best in the world. Brooks didn't focus on the talent of the group. In fact, he once told his team they didn't have enough talent to win on talent alone! Instead, he focused on their work ethic.
Brooks knew the Soviet team was talented, but he also knew they worked hard. Instead of trying to outplay them, Brooks focused on conditioning them. Brooks did not minimize the Soviet team's success, but he used it as inspiration to fuel his players to work harder. In fact, Brooks pushed his players so hard that they joked he wanted to kill them!
A few weeks before the gold medal match, the Americans and Soviets met in a friendly hockey game. The Soviets torched the Americans by double-digits. It would have been easy for the American team to quit then and embrace an almost certain failure, but they didn't. Instead of assuming the next game's outcome would be the same as this one, the team worked even harder. They placed the blame squarely on their own shoulders, and they used it to fuel their next moves.
Two weeks later, the Americans were ready to play. Brooks gave a rousing speech to the players in the room, showcasing his belief in their abilities, and the players bought in. Even with the pitiful showing a few weeks before, they believed they could beat the Soviet teamand they did. When the final buzzer rang, the American team had defeated the all-time great Soviet team by a score of 4-3.
Brooks's belief in his team, his ability to use others' success as motivation, and his never give up attitude enabled one of the greatest sports moments in American history.
How To Use This Book
On the road to success, there are a lot of mistakes to be made! These mistakes can discourage you, rattle you, and strike a fear of failure in you so deep that you may give up altogether.
In order to be an effective person and meet your goals, you have to be able to recognize your own habits and learn to break them.
We've all had goals that we feel we just can't meet, no matter what we try. However, lurking behind these failures are the habits we can't break or maybe don't even know we have. There are nine habits that seem to radiate throughout our failures, and this book will give you a clear understanding of what they are and how they impact your effectiveness. Use each chapter as your personal barometer, and stop and consider times where those habits have kept you from reaching your goals.
In addition to understanding your bad habits, this book will give you tips and techniques to break them. Once you've broken these habits, you'll be on your way to success you've never seen before!
Habit One: Idling, Going Nowhere Fast
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
We have a tendency to look at others who have 'made it', and automatically assume they are smarter, richer, or somehow better equipped than we are. However, this isn't really the case. These people who are successful are so because they've made the decision to get started.
