Smart strategies for pragmatic, science-based growth and sustainable
achievement.
The Science of Intelligent Achievement teaches you the scientific
process of finding success through your most valuable assets:
- Selective focus - how selective are you with who and what you let
into your life?
- Creative ownership - how dependent are you on others for your
happiness and success?
- Pragmatic growth - how consistently and practically are you growing
daily?
First, this book will show you how to develop your focus by being very
selective with where you spend your mental energy. If you've failed to
reach an important goal because you were distracted, misinformed, or
overcommitted, then you know the role focus and selectivity play in
achievement. Second, you will learn how to stop allowing your happiness
and success to be dependent on other people and instead, start taking
ownership over your life through creative work. Finally, you will learn
the art of changing your life through pragmatic decisions and actions.
Self-improvement is not the result of dramatic changes. Instead, science
has shown that personal and professional change is initiated and
sustained by consistent, practical changes. To grow, you must leverage
the power of micro-decisions, personality responsibility, and
mini-habits. Your own biology will not let you improve your life in any
other way.
What do you currently value? What are working to attain? Have you been
taught to value your job title or your relationship with some other
person above all else? Have you been convinced that the most valuable
things in life are your paycheck, the number of people who say 'hello'
to you at the office, and the number of people who say 'I need you' at
home? Or, have you become so passive in what you value that you let
anyone and anything into your life, as long as whatever you let in
allows you to stay disconnected from the cold hard truth that when
things really go wrong in your life, the only person who will be able to
fix it and the only person will be responsible for it is you. If
so...welcome to fake success. Passivity, dependence, and the sacrifice
of practical thinking and personal responsibility to fuzzy, grandiose
ideals and temporary feelings -- these are markers of fake success.
Intelligent Achievement, on the other hand, is not a moving target.
It's not empty either. Instead, it's sturdy, full, and immovable. It's
not something that's just handed to you. It's not something you're
nudged to chase or coerced into wanting. Intelligent Achievement comes
from within you. It's a collection of values that are aligned with who
you are--values you have to protect and nurture. These values do not
increase your dependence on other people and things. Instead, they
relieve you of dependence. This kind of achievement is something that
you have a part in building from the ground up--you know what's in
it--you chose it, someone else didn't choose it for you.
Achieving real success means you must focus, create, and grow daily.
The Science of Intelligent Achievement will show you how.
