Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

TRADING YOUR TIME
Everything in life is a trade of some kind. Overall, you trade your
time for the results and rewards you want. You can tell what kind
of a trader you are by looking around you and evaluating your
current situation. Are you satisfied with the results of your trades
in life so far?
Some people trade their time for $25,000 per year. Some people
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trade the same amount of time for $250,000 per year, even though
they may be of similar age and intelligence, and have similar educa-
tions and backgrounds. But one of them earns 10 times what the
other earns! Why is this?
In the simplest of terms, the one earning 
more
thinks and acts
differently from the one earning 
less
. One person is a better “trader”
than the other. One person has better information, continually up-
grades his skills, starts earlier, works harder, and stays later. A good
trader quickly develops the winning edge, and begins to pull ahead
of the pack. Soon, he is working and earning at a far higher level
than the people he started out with. This must be your goal as well.
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