| Welcome to the 115 Key Principles for Success. If success has eluded you, then read on. You're about to learn the techniques I've used to achieve success. You're fortunate, as it took me years to develop these principles through reading, experimentation, and non-successes. These principles are laid out for you in a simple-to-follow list of techniques. If you're already successful, congratulations! You know what it takes to be a success. You'll find some unique principles here, that can help you too. I've whittled these down to an easy-to-read short book. If you read and take action on the contents of this book you might join the top 1% in the world. By purchasing this book, you join my family of readers. We are all on a journey, that with a little help from me, can get you where you want to go. You are unique. No one in the world has the same skills and experiences that you have. Each of these qualities can help you or hinder you on your road to success. This book can help you identify what these are. One of my favorite analogies is about boiling water. When water reaches a temperature of 211 degrees the water is still. But add just one more degree and the water boils. Are you in the same state as that 211-degree water? Your success may be just out of reach due to one small change you need to make. That change or key principle might be found in this book. You will learn some of the key principles that helped me make millions working in the finance industry. I've worked for some of the top companies in the world, like GE, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase and a number of hedge funds. What is success? success is really up to you to define and is unique to you. Typically, success is reaching your goals. So we'll work together to get you there. Some of the successes I've achieved are:
Success doesn't come easy and you must work for it until you make it a habit by:
You know the names we associate with success. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, Ben Franklin and many others. I have a friend that worked with Jeff Bezos when Jeff was a banker. One day Jeff came into work and said, "I'm moving to California to start an online bookstore." Everyone laughed at him. Now he's one of the richest people in the world being the creator of Amazon.com. This should show you that success can come from ideas that have many naysayers. We associate success mostly with the rich and famous, although, there is luck and even a hindsight bias involved. What most people want when they say they want success is happiness. I recommend, reading this book once through, and then reading it a second time, to take the key principles and making them your own. You can only do this by taking action on them. You can't learn to swim without getting in the water and you won't learn these principles without taking action. You will find certain words in bold to subliminally assist you with learning these principles. Of course, there are exceptions to the principles listed here and I might even contradict myself. You can reach me on Twitter @alecberg. Learn some of my secrets to success in the next chapter on Preparation. |