CHAPTER FIFTEEN

How to maintain your new-found focus

You now have a wealth of tools that will help you reach the goals you set, and in record time. In this chapter you’ll find useful techniques for maintaining your new-found focus. As you’ll discover, these include having a balanced life, allocating enough time for rest, exercise and recreation, and maintaining a playful and creative attitude to life and work. These are the secrets of the truly successful people who work to live, not live to work.

Is your life balanced?

At the outset, you saw how the 80/20 principle can be applied in order to bring you the results you want in all areas of your life. However, our world tends to define success in very narrow terms, mostly involving money and ...

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