No Limits Habit Book

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Chapter 1: Why Do We Procrastinate?

Here's a common question I hear people ask all the time: Do successful people procrastinate at times too?

My answer is...Of course!

But what truly separates them from the rest is the fact that they understand procrastination is just a bad habit, just like nail biting and nose picking, and it can be replaced with a more empowering habit.

So, why do we procrastinate? Here are 4 reasons why... Reason 1: Bad Habit

Most people's pattern in life is to wait - to wait for someday. They will say things like, "Let's do this tomorrow" and "I don't feel like doing this today". And because there's always a next tomorrow, they almost never get down to doing it... until the deadline is near.

Although they know things need to be done, they always seem to have something else more important or exciting to do. Do you know what I'm talking about?

In fact, this is a common experience among my seminar participants. Whenever I ask if they have the same experience, I would see all of them nodding their head in unison.

One the other hand, are there people who are always motivated and getting things done way ahead of the schedule? Of course there are!

Usually, these are the top performers in their organizations where they not only do what they are expected quickly and effectively...they do a lot more than what is expected.

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If you've gone through my Secrets of Self-Millionaire book, you'd know that "doing more than expected" is the 6th_{wealth habit of all self-made millionaires.} This is what separates ordinary businesses from extraordinary businesses, and an average-salaried employee from a superstar high income earner. How do I know? Simple!

I interviewed some of the top income earners of each industry and I realized all of them have a common "secret" to their success - they have a habit of doing more than expected.

Well...Can we adopt the same habit as well? Of course you can!

But to change our habits, we must first understand that our habits are formed based on what we think about most of the time. Here's a diagram to help you understand better:

Beliefs

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Habits

Yet, many people do not understand this. Instead of changing their beliefs, they continue to hold on to their existing limiting beliefs and they attempt to change their habits directly.

Let me give you a real-life example...

I have a friend who used to be a smoker. For years, he has been attempting to quit the bad habit. But no matter how much he resist, he would eventually give in to the temptation of smoking.

Everything changed forever when he collapsed at home with a heart attack. Fortunately, he received medical attention in the nick of time and was saved. It didn't come as a surprise to know that he quit smoking for good after that incident...

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But what really surprised and brought warmth to my heart was that he stopped smoking not because of the traumatic experience of heart attack (which his doctor said was due to his smoking habits)... but because of something more precious to him - his only daughter.

It turned out that on the day he had his heart attack, his little daughter was right beside him. Seeing her father collapse all of a sudden, she was so frightened.

And after her father regained consciousness, she pleaded with her father, “Dad… Please don’t go. I don't want you to die.”

Now, one thing you might be interested to know is that my friend used to believe that “smoking wouldn’t kill him”. But from that day onwards, he had a total change of his belief.

He knew that if he doesn’t quit smoking right away, he might have the next heart attack and lose his daughter for good...

Unwilling to lose the most precious thing to him, he immediately stopped his smoking habit for good.

Can you see how powerful changing your beliefs is? Once my friend changed his belief from “smoking wouldn't kill” to “smoking might cost me my life and cost me time with my daughter”, he immediately stopped smoking.

When his belief changed, his habit immediately changed. Once you change your beliefs to support you taking a new course of action, you do not have to rely on any willpower at all!

To give you an experience of how powerful changing your beliefs are, you'll be doing an exercise that I've prepared for you in chapter 2.

In Chapter 2, you’ll learn how to change your beliefs so you can kick your procrastination habit out of your life for good.

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Reason 2: Fear of Failure.

Many people procrastinate because they fear feeling bad if they don't get the results they want.

It took Edison more than 10,000 attempts to discover the tungsten filament that worked in the light bulb. When a reporter asked him how he managed to go on working despite having 'failed' so many times, Edison replied, "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

He then explained to the reporter that each failure gave him hope. Every time he failed, he knew he was one step closer to finding the answer.

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison Successful people make more mistakes than others but these mistakes never stop them from setting and achieving new goals.

If you're not making mistakes, you probably aren't doing enough.

Force yourself to get out of your comfort zone and take action. In fact, if you look back into your life, you'd realize that most of the major changes in your life happened only when you stepped out of your comfort zone.

I always like to say that our minds are just like rubber bands. Once you stretch it beyond a certain length, it can never return to its original length again.

Likewise, once you stretch beyond your comfort level, you will never be the same person again.

In Chapter 2, you will also identify the fears that are pulling you back from your success and you’ll also learn how to overcome them to get more things done.

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Reason 3: Lack of Motivation

One of the most important things you need for success in life is motivation. To be able to run a business, manage people, write a book, etc...all require

motivation right?

However, the problem is that for many people, feeling motivated to get things done is extremely challenging.

Truth is that motivation is an emotional state, just like anger and happiness. And just like how we can move from happiness to anger by the slightest incidents (like when someone badmouths us), we can also move from feeling sluggish to feeling totally motivated with the snap of the finger.

How? By applying the state management technique that you'll be learning in Chapter 3, we not only can use it to experience a state total motivation. We can also apply it to experience confidence before giving a presentation...or to snap out of a state of confusion, into a state of total certainty within seconds. We'll go through the state management technique in Chapter 3.

Reason 4: Feeling Overwhelmed

Were there times when you simply had too much to do, and you got so overwhelmed you didn't feel like doing it?

Why is that so?

Some people get too overwhelmed with the number of tasks they need to complete that it paralyzes them. This happens especially when we're doing something new for the first time and we get overwhelmed with so much information we have absolutely no idea where to start...and so we don't! People call this "analysis of paralysis" - which means over-analyzing

something to the stage where we are paralyzed, not knowing what actions to take.

So the trick here is to break down the tasks you have to do into simpler tasks. Why? Because completing a task one after another, no matter how simple or

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not, gives us a sense of achievement and satisfaction. These empowering feelings can further motivate us to complete even more work.

This is the secret why successful people are so addicted to success all the time. In Chapter 4, you'll discover a 90-year old system to getting more things done in a shorter period.

Overcome Procrastination And Start Living A Life of

No Limits Today!

Procrastinators are always able to find reasons for not getting started. To take control of your life, you have to accept responsibility for everything that

happens in your life.

If you've read any of my previous books, you'd know that I'm a huge believer in taking 100% responsibility of our life to be successful. So before you learn the steps to developing the No Limits Habit, commit to your personal results and give your full participation to the exercises that follows.

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Chapter 2: The No Limits Habit

4 Steps to Kicking Procrastination Out Of Your Life!

The first step to change is awareness. Until and unless you are aware of your habits and why you behave a certain way, you will not know what to

change...and how to change it.

What are the tasks you have been putting off? What is the reason for putting them off?

Be honest with yourself. Invest the time to reflect and to write down your thoughts. The exercises that follow are designed to help you uncover the real emotional reasons that could be pulling you back in life...and help you

overcome them so reaching your goals is more possible...and easier!

As you go through these 4 steps, I want you to participate actively in using the exercises to create the transformation in your life that you desire.

Step 1. Awareness & Finding Enough Reasons to Change

1.1. What tasks have you’ve been putting off? List them down below. e.g. Writing books, starting your own seminar

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Out of the list if tasks you’ve been putting off, choose 5 of the more important ones and continue on the next page…

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1.2. What is stopping you from completing each of the tasks?

Is it a limiting belief?E.g. I’m not good at writing books.

Is it fear?E.g. I’m afraid of speaking in front of a crowd.

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.3. How were the beliefs and fears created? What are the evidences that support your beliefs and fears?

e.g Was it because you’ve never gotten an A grade in English? Was it because you felt totally embarrassed after stammering in front of a crowd?

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.4. What has not completing these tasks cost you in the past? How will it cost you in the future?

e.g. It has cost me at least $10,000 in royalties that I could have otherwise earned after publishing and selling my books. With that money, I could have gone for the vacation to a country I’ve always wanted to travel to.

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Step 2. Breaking Through Your Past & Designing Your New Future

Once you realize that your previous habits and beliefs are stopping you from tapping on your full potential in life, you must then create a new set of

empowering beliefs to replace them. What new belief would be more empowering to get you to start taking action?

For example, if your old belief was, ‘I am not good at writing books’, the new belief can be ‘I can learn how to become a best-selling author’.

If your old belief was ‘I am too old to start a business’, the new belief can be ‘I am able to make better decisions’. Write down your new empowering beliefs now.

2.1. What new beliefs do you need to adopt right now to empower myself to complete my tasks? __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.2. What evidences can I use to support my new beliefs?

e.g. I used to be bad at Maths. But after taking the time to practice and learning from my mistakes, I got an A grade. If I learn Math, I can also learn how to write best-selling books.

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Step 3. Future Pacing

Take some time and imagine yourself in the future with your new beliefs. What will you do differently? How would you behave differently? How would you benefit from the new beliefs?

Think about it a year from now. Two years from now. Five years from now. Write down all the ways you will benefit from having this new empowering belief.

3.1. By adopting these new beliefs, what new actions will I take? What will I do differently?

e.g. I will start buying best-selling books and find out their writing style. I will join toastmasters to brush up my public speaking skills.

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.2. By adopting the new beliefs, how will it benefit me?

e.g. I will have a new stream of passive income after my book is published. I will have recognition and credibility in my own field.

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Step 4. Get Your Engine Started Right Now!

After visualizing how it is like to be in the future with your new beliefs, you have to start taking certain actions to design your future…starting from today. Research has been done on successful people and one of the common traits among them is their ability to implement certain things faster than the average person.

Successful people understand that to experience results as quickly as possible, they not only have to do things differently…they have to do them fast.

The Speed of Implementation

Here is a common scenario for my seminar attendees…

More than 60 individuals can attend the same wealth creation seminar I hold for the same weekend. But each of them can experience drastically different results from one another. Some will return to their own lives and

double…sometimes even triple their wealth, but to another group of individuals, nothing extraordinary happens.

I mean, they were in the same environment, taught by the same trainers and spent the same weekend in the seminar. So what made the difference?

Curious, I decided to find out the differences by asking the attendees questions.

Time and time again, the difference lies in the speed of implementation. For those attendees who experienced a quantum increase in their wealth, a large proportion of them follow a common course of action – using the goals and action plan that they developed in my seminar, they will return home and apply it within the next 24 hours while their energy levels are still high. That’s what you’ll be doing here. To get the maximum results out of this

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we take (or don’t take) today determines the results we get (or don’t get) tomorrow.

Out of the list of actions that you’ve listed in Step 3.1, what actions can you take within the next 24 hours? Write them down.

4.1. What actions can I take in the next 24 hours?

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Chapter 3: Control Your Emotional State

Humans are emotional creatures. We make decisions based on emotions, and justify them with logic. And that's why if you attempt to use logic to overcome procrastination, it's virtually a 0% success rate.

You could be telling yourself things like, "I really should get started" and "procrastination is bad", but if you don't feel motivated to do something, chances are you will never get around doing it.

So, to overcome procrastination, changing your beliefs may not be enough. You need to change your emotional state.

Then the question is, how do I get motivated around doing something?

Fortunately, that's where I come in. As you already know, I train thousands of individuals from all walks of life each year...and transform them into highly motivated success magnets in as little as 3 days.

How?

Direct Your Physiology

Our emotional state is affected by the way we direct our physiology: 1. Your posture.

Are you shoulders upright or slouched? Is your head tilted up or down?

2. Your breathing patterns.

Are you breathing fast or slow? Deep or shallow?

3. Your facial expression.

Are your facial muscles upright or droopy? Are your eyes focused or de-focused?

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4. Your tonality.

Are you speaking fast or slow? Loud or soft?

5. Your muscle tension.

Which parts of your muscles are tensed or relaxed?

6. Your movement speed.

Are you making fast or slow movements?

Every Emotional State Is Directed By A Specific

Physiology

In order to access certain emotional states, you have to direct your body in a certain way.

For example, to feel confident, you have to:

 Pull your shoulders backwards and stand upright.

 Breathe in a fast and deep pattern

 Focus your eyes and keep a mild smile on your face

 Speak in a fast and loud tone

It's just that we do all these so habitually we are no longer consciously aware of it.

If you don't change your physiology, it is IMPOSSIBLE to change your emotional state!

For example, if your shoulders are slouched and you tilt your head down...you breathe in a slow and shallow pattern...defocus your eyes and droop your facial muscles...speak in a slow and soft tone... it's impossible for you to feel excited!

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To change your physiology, follow the below instructions closely. After going through the activity, you will be able to transform your emotional states into a knob that you have 100% control over.

You don't have to take my word for it. Simply go through this activity and you will experience the results yourself...

State Management Technique

Step 1: Accessing Your State of Total Motivation

1.1. Think of a time in the past when you felt totally motivated. See what you saw and hear what you heard. Write it down below.

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.2. Stand the way you would stand if you felt totally motivated.

Notice your posture. Is it slouched or upright? ________________________ 1.3. Breathe the way you would breathe if you felt motivated. Are you breathing fast or slow? ________________________

Deep or shallow? ________________________

1.4. Look the way you would when you felt totally motivated. Are your eyes focused or defocused? ________________________

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1.5. Gesture the way you would if you felt totally motivated. What is the gesture? ________________________

Which muscles in your body are tensed or relaxed?

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.6. Say what you would say to yourself if you felt totally motivated.

What did you say? ________________________________________________ Is your volume loud or soft? ________________________

Is your pitch high or loud? ________________________

Step 2: Testing Your Physiology

Now, how do you know if you've broken the code to instant Motivation? Simple...

Test it!

2.1. Break state. Think about your mobile number and read it backwards. 2.2. Test the parameters you've written down in Step 1. Now, take a look at the answers you've written down in Step 1. Assume your emotional state by following the parameters you've written down.

2.3. Check results. Do you feel motivated right now? If yes, congratulations! You have broken the code of instant motivation! If no, go back to step 1 again and repeat the answers until you feel totally motivated in Step 2.

You Can Use This Technique For Any Emotional State!

Like I've said, you can use this technique when you want to feel confident, happy and even loved. Have fun with this technique and when you're ready, I'll see you on the next chapter!

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Chapter 4: The 90 Year-Old Trick to Getting More

Things Done

In 1920, Charles Schwab, Chairman of Bethlehem Steel hired a productivity expert, Ivy Lee, to help with increasing the effectiveness of his managers just to be sure they are fully utilizing their time.

Ivy Lee simply handed him a blank sheet of paper and told him that he could give him the solution in a short while. All Ivy needed is to speak with one of the managers.

Charles agreed.

In less than 20 minutes, Ivy Lee came up with the simplest time management system till this day and taught it to Charles and the manager. It goes like this:

1. At the end of each day, make a list of the top 6 tasks you want to complete the next day

2. Arrange the tasks according to their level of importance, the most important task at the top of the list.

3. Start working on the first task, and keep working on it until you complete it. Do your best to stick to it until it’s completed, before moving on to the next task.

Unaware of the power of this system, Charles was skeptical if it could really be that simple. But Ivy was so confident he told Charles to test the system out for a few weeks and then send him a check for what he thought the idea was worth.

Charles had absolutely nothing to lose and he agreed.

In a couple of weeks, Charles sent Ivy Lee a check of $25,000 (which is an equivalent of at least $250,000 today and later said that this was the most profitable lesson he had ever learned in his entire business career!

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Now, can you apply this system into your life? Sure you can! And that’s what you’re about to do…

1.1. Write down a list of tasks you want to complete tomorrow. You may write as many tasks as you want.

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.2. Out of the list, choose 6 of the more important tasks and list them according to their level of importance, with the most important task at the top of the list.

__________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.3. Write this list onto a piece of paper or your notebook. Take out this list and follow it tomorrow. Do your best not to move on to the next item until you have completed the previous task.

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Yet, this is one of the most powerful time management strategies that I've ever came across. So make full use of it and apply it to your work tomorrow.

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Congratulations! You Made It!

Just so you know, you've just completed The No Limits Habit book and all the exercises!

By now, you've mastered the 4 steps to developing the no limits habit...how to control your emotional state with the snap of your finger...and the 90-year old trick to getting more things done.

Did you know? Of everyone who picks up a book or an audio recording, only 10% of them ever complete it.

So congratulations! By completing this book, you have just pushed yourself into the top 10% of the population!

I just want you to know how privileged I am for being able to teach someone like you. Because of the time and effort you've spent on yourself, I have the faith that you will achieve a lot more greatness in your life.

Whether you've realized it or not, you've already taken a very important step towards achieving your goals and turning them into reality.

I'm looking forward to having the privilege to guide you in your next step towards success.

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Adam Khoo is an entrepreneur, a best-selling author and peak performance trainer. A self-made millionaire by the age of 26, he owns and runs several businesses in education, training, event management and advertising, all with a combined annual turnover of $30 million.

He is the Executive Chairman and Chief Master Trainer of Adam Khoo Learning Technologies Group Pte Ltd and a director of seven other private companies. Adam is also a director of the Singapore Health Promotion

Board (HPB).

He is also the best-selling author of ten books including Master Your Mind,

Design Your Destiny which was the second-highest selling book in Singapore in

2004. It was on the best-sellers’ list for 36 consecutive weeks. His other books,

Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires and Secrets of Millionaire Investors have both

stayed at the #1 spot on The Straits Times Bestsellers List for more than 52 weeks. He also authored Secrets of Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses

launched in October 2008, and Profit from the Panic launched in January 2009. Adam holds an honors degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. As an undergraduate, he was ranked among the top one percent of academic achievers and became a pioneer in the university’s Gifted program.

Over the last 15 years, he has trained over 550,000 students, teachers,

professionals, executives and business owners to tap their personal power and achieve excellence in their various fields of endeavor. Some of his corporate clients include ST Engineering, Singapore Police Force, F&N Coca-Cola, Ministry of Defence, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, Citibank, UOB, NETS, Great Eastern Life, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, MediaCorp and many more.

His success and achievements are regularly featured in regional media like The Straits Times, The Business Times, Channel NewsAsia and many more.

He was ranked among the top 25 richest Singaporeans under the age of 40 by The Executive Magazine in 2007. In 2008, Adam was conferred the NUS Business School Eminent Business Alumni Award for being one of Singapore’s most successful and prominent business leaders.