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Jack Zufelt:
How bad do you want it? Is it a core desire or not? If it's not a core desire (and that's on a scale from one to a hundred), that's a hundred; if it's fifty on the scale, that's half-hearted - half-hearted doesn't cut it in anything.

Jack Zufelt, author of the book The DNA of Success…

For example if you want to exercise, you've got to carve out the time and discipline yourself to do it every day or three times a week. If you decide that's too hard, don't tell me you can't do it; don't tell me that you don't have the skill or the ability, just say this:"I guess I don't want it bad enough." I'll buy that. The human being can learn. If a person can learn they can create whatever they want because they can learn it from somebody. But, if they don't want it bad enough they'll quit.

If you're honest with yourself and others about your core desire, Jack says you'll be much happier.

If you call me tonight and say, "Hey Jack, you want to go bowling?" On a scale from one to a hundred I instantly measure that - and I like bowling but not tonight. I have something more important so I'd say that's a sixty on the scale - I don't do sixties, I don't do eighties, I don't do nineties - I'm clear now what my hundreds are, I only do hundreds.

The fact is that you'll almost always never succeed at anything just because you should, could, or ought to.

"Ought tos" "shoulds "and "need tos" don't have the power to cause you to overcome the obstacles that will come in your way because you're trying to make something happen.

There's a link to Jack's website from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.