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Though this book was written in the late eighties, It has a few nuggets well worth preserving. Few writers can articulate ideas like Dennis Waitley. Here are some of my takeaways
- The new millennium needs a whole new way to set and achieve goals. Waitley christens his strategy, 'Flextactics'.
- The following are the essence of his strategy
- Tactic1: Risks
- Embrace risks: Risks can enable one excel and be a force for good. They reap outstanding rewards. Taking a risk can be going with a new business idea and refusing to retreat at seeming reversals.
- Incorporate yourself: See yourself as a virtual corporation offering services to others: your customers or even your current employer
- Prepare for the naysayers. Prepare to be unstoppable
- Expect the world to be indifferent to your ideas
- Challenge your own assumptions. Talk to risk takers on the upside and the downside of taking risks.
- You do not have to take all the risk at one time
- You do not have to take the risk alone
- You are never ever fully ready to take risks. Indeed fortune favors the brave.
- Ask yourself:
What did you love to do as a child?
Are you now doing something you love?
Are you making a valuable contribution to others?
- Tactic 2: Use the present to chart your future
- Get a baseline by writing down
Your natural talents
Your formal qualifications and skils acquired through self-study
- Make a list of primary and professional mentors
- Tactic 3: Set lifeforming goals to keep you on track
- Ask yourself:
- Do you want to stay in the same house/city/state/country?
- Do you want to learn a new language?
- Familiarize yourself with new technology?
- Are your goals truly your own?
- Do your goals benefit others as well?
- Do not compare yourself with others. There will always be someone better than you in anything you are or do.
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