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Chapter 2

Habit Magic:
Turning Yourself On To Self-Discipline

Robert J. Ringer said, “Success is not dependent upon one’s being blessed with superior intelligence or special
skills, nor does formal education, hard work, or luck play a major role in an individual’s climb towards success...
the difference between success and failure is not nearly as great as most people believe...
Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always
leads to success.” *

Strategy 2-1:

Today Master your habits.
is a
great No habit is unbreakable. Every habit can be subjected to our control. Show me

day any person with a strong sense of self-control and I’ll show you a winner. Conversely, a
loser has little self-control. The subsequent

sections of this book are immaterial unless

we develop the ability to change those habits “The chains of habit
that hamper our success.
are too light
You are more likely to act yourself into
feelings than feel yourself into action. to be felt until
they are too heavy
Dr. Jerome Brunner

The really high achievers in life to be broken”
have a common denominator: they have
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mastered their habits. Take a look at the really

poor achievers in life: the opposite is true of

them. The under-achievers have failed miserably because they lack self-discipline. They

always let things slip. They seem to have not given enough attention, nor had the concern,
Mindset58 * Ringer, Robert J., Million Dollar Habits, (Ballantine Books, 1990), 1-2. Ringer makes
These people have chosen the path of least resistance. They have tried to take

the easy way out because it meant less work on the hard things in life, namely change and

the point that his book is based on these three premises. I loved his book.