Million Dollar Habits

The Great Question 
Many years ago, I began asking the question, “Why are some people more 
successful than others?” This question became the focal point of a lifelong search, 
taking me to more than 80 countries and through many thousands of books and 
articles on the subjects of philosophy, psychology, religion, metaphysics, history, 
economics, and business. Over time, the answers came to me, one by one, and 
gradually crystallized into a clear picture and a simple explanation.

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Million Dollar Habits – Page 4 
It is this: 
“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. 
Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today 
is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You 
can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new 
choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and 
the things you want to accomplish with your life.” 
Just think! Everything that you are or ever will be is up to you. And the only real 
limit on what you can be, do and have is the limit you place on your own 
imagination. You can take complete control of your destiny by taking complete 
control of your thoughts, words and actions from this day forward. 
The Power of Habit 
Perhaps the most important discovery in the fields of psychology and success is 
that fully 95% of everything that you think, feel, do and achieve is the result of 
habit
. Beginning in childhood, you have developed a series of conditioned 
responses that lead you to react automatically and unthinkingly in almost every 
situation.
To put it simply, successful people have “success habits” and unsuccessful people 
do not. Successful, happy, healthy, prosperous men and women easily, 
automatically and consistently do and say the right things in the right way at the 
right time. As a result, they accomplish ten and twenty times as much as average 
people who have not yet learned these habits and practiced these behaviors. 

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