Follow the 3% Law to achieve Success!
Long time ago, when I decided to make all my dreams come true and achieve my goals I noticed that I have created a very interesting pattern in my behavior which was giving me lots of success because I was automatically getting closer to my desired goals. I was so impressed about this that I even decided to name it a Law, I call it the 3% Law to achieve Success. I really appreciate the Wisdom I have received from being aware of myself and it makes me very Happy to share it with you. So this is one of my latest ideas to achieve financial freedom.
The law as I have it in my notebook is as follows:
For each wish you have, no matter if it is a project or a goal, you need to dedicate a minimum of 3% of time, money and energy.
Honestly I have not researched over the internet to see if someone came up with the same idea (or law is like to call it) because even though I discovered myself doing it without noticing, it is just common sense, but surely you know that common sense is hard to find these days.
Why a 3% of time, money and energy?
If we do some math and statistic we can say with a lot of certainty that more than 50% of the population with an average quality of life earn around 1000usd to 1500usd every month.
We also know that every day have 24 hours and every week have 168 hours.
And for sure we all know that everyone of us, consciously or unconsciously have a wish list in mind.
So if you are earning an average of 1250usd per month, then 3% of that will be 37.5 usd/month. With this amount you will be able to buy books in order to educate yourself in relation to your goal or wish, you will be able to buy materials that you might need for your project or simple pay for a membership if that were the case, etc. Just think about this as a fixed monthly income that you will be investing in making your dreams come true.
Every week is 168 hours long, 3% of 168 hours is 5.04 hours. Dedicating 1 hour each business day (Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday Free
how wise is this law) you will be using up these 5 hours to work your goal or project. 5 Hours a week is a very significant amount and more if you consider that you might be working on other goals in other aspects of your life.
Example #1:
Assume you are looking to self-develop yourself, 37usd per month will be a nice amount to buy yourself a book or an audio tape that will help you grow as a human being. 1 hour each day will be quite enough for you to read or to listen to the material.
Example #2:
Assume you are looking to improve your love life, 37usd per month will allow you to invite a nice girl/man to have a coffee or to the movies and spend a nice 5 hours talking to him/her , watching the movie or hanging out together.
Example #3:
Assume you are looking to improve your health, 37usd per month will let you pay for a monthly membership at your favorite gym and go 1 hour each day for 5 days each week.
And what about 3% Energy?
Thought I forgot about this very important point? Of course not, Energy is the effort you need to stick to your plan… It is very nice to have goals, but if you do not stick to them or to the plan you have developed then it is the same as having no goal at all.
Focus on a few of your goals at a time
It is very important that you understand that the 3% Law is very well associated to Focusing on your goals, if you decide to focus on too many goals you will notice that it will be harder to keep up with all of them thus ending up nowhere.
Management and discipline
You need to work your time and plan very well if you are really serious about achieving your goals. Sticking with your plan requires lots of energy and for that I recommend you to write your goals on paper and keep track of your time with your agenda. Dare yourself to combine organization and order with hobbies and projects you would love to do. Pressuring yourself a little to achieve your goals is very well recommended. Be hard on you.
Motivation
This will be your engine, you need to always keep motivated, think about your goal and how great it will be when you achieve it. Feel how great it will feel when you will be able to comment your kids, friends and colleagues about how you did it and the effort you made to make it a reality.
Following this law should kick start you and put in a halt all your excuses immediately, you have to invest so little time and money per month, that not doing it will show you how much you need to grow and will explain your actual reality. This is the best way on how to achieve professional goals.
As Success-is-in-you.com keep growing all this important topics will be greatly expanded, just have in mind that this is not just a one day process as I really take my time to bring you the best of the best.



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