Introduction
Before continuing with J.P.’s story, I’d like to tell you a little about success habits and how this book will help you to make them your own. I am going to show you a path and process that will allow you to adopt success habits so they stick. You don’t have to flip your world upside down or try to force “new habits” overnight that disrupt your life and cause you to go back to where you started. Rather, you can make barely noticeable, small shifts in your daily routines by nudging out those things that don’t serve you and replacing them with habits that create a path to wealth and abundance. It doesn’t matter if you are an entrepre- neur, a business owner, an executive, an investor, an employee, or a young person just starting your first job. The habits, prin- ciples, recipes, and exercises in the coming chapters will give you a competitive edge, catapulting you to that next level. So while this book’s main focus is on financial success, the methods I’ll share can also propel you to new levels of fulfill- ment in other areas of your life, including family, parenting, friendships, relationships, spirituality, health, physical fitness, love, passion, intimacy, and more. No matter what anyone has told you in the past, you are entitled to and can possess fulfill- ment, joy, and abundance in all areas of your life. I’ll help you develop these habits through a variety of meth- ods. I’ll share amazing stories of hugely successful people I know and how they learned and applied the behaviors and routines that allowed them to become high achievers and earners. I’ll provide exercises that will help you develop and practice new habits. And I’ll offer some stories from my own life that I hope will inspire and instruct. More about all this a bit later. Now let’s return to our friend, who when we last saw him was sweeping floors with great effort and skill. J.P. graduated from high school, but he didn’t go to college. Instead he joined the U.S. Navy and served two years on the air- craft carrier USS Hornet . After the navy, J.P. held various low-pay- ing jobs, including working as a janitor, at a gas station, and as an insurance salesman. He worked briefly for Redken Laboratories
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