Financial Goals - LESSON - 5
Before starting this Lesson, go back to the previous Lesson and check whether you really made an attempt to come out of your comfort zone by getting up early in the morning. If you are one of those determined persons who get up around 5:00 a.m., please accept my congratulations because you’re already ahead of other readers. For others, this and subsequent lessons will not help in anyway if the exercise in Lesson Four is not practised. Of course, you may read the Lesssons, but they’ll not help you to increase your income. No pain, no gain! Let me hasten to add here that I’m not trying to make you believe that these lessons are the only way to boost your income. All I’m trying to drive home the point is that everything starts with self-discipline.
The fundamental reason for not achieving our goals is this: doing the same things in the same way again and again, but expecting different results each time! We do this for weeks, months and sometimes for years without realizing our mistake. We remain where we are and then we blame the boss, the neighbour or the government.
The above paragraph is so important that I want you to read it again. Read it for a third time. Read it until the full import hits you. Can you see that doing the same thing repeatedly is related to remaining in your comfort zone? A slight deviation this way or that - and you’ll feel uncomfortable. Since you don’t want to feel uncomfortable, you do not want to deviate! And that’s a sort of vicious circle. Self- discipline is a great tool to come out of that circle.
Now read this statement:
you cannot progress unless you expand your comfort zone.
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Income growth is directly proportional to the size of your comfort zone. Slowly, but steadily, expand your comfort zone and you’ll surely see a steady growth in your income.
To learn how to increase your comfort zone, see Lesson Six.