Seven Rules for the 21st
Century
By: Brian Tracy
(Created by: Sang Phan Viet)

By: Brian Tracy Created by: Sang Phan Viet
Seven Rules for the 21st Century
• Here are seven rules for success in the 21st century. These are some of the
most important ideas I have learned in more than thirty years of studying
successful people – Brian Tracy.

By: Brian Tracy Created by: Sang Phan Viet
Rule #1: Your life only gets better when you get better.
• Your outer world will always be a reflection of your inner world. If you want
to improve the quality of your outer world, you must go to work on yourself.
And since there is no limit on how much better you can get, there is no limit
to how much better you can make your life.

By: Brian Tracy Created by: Sang Phan Viet
Rule #2: It doesn't matter where you're coming from;
all that matters is where you're going.
• Never allow yourself to be slowed down or held back by events that have
occurred in your past. Learn from them and let them go. Resolve to keep
yourself focused on the future and where you are going- most of the
time. And since your future is only limited by your imagination, there are no
limits to what you can achieve in the months and years ahead.

By: Brian Tracy Created by: Sang Phan Viet
Rule #3: Anything worth doing well is worth doing
poorly at first.
• Everything is hard before it is easy. A primary reason that people do not
realize their full potentials is that they try something new and when it
doesn't work perfectly the first time, they quit and go back to their old,
lower level of performance. Anything worth doing well is worth doing
poorly at first, and it is often worth doing poorly several times until you
master it.

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Rule #4: You are only as free as your options, the well-
developed alternatives you have available to you.
• One of the greatest human goods is personal freedom, and your freedom is
largely determined by your choices. The more options you have, the greater
freedom and self-confidence you have. You should be continually developing
new options throughout your career. Never hang all of your hopes for
success on a single possibility.

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Rule #5: Within every problem or difficulty you experience,
there is the seed of an equal or greater advantage or benefit.
• Look for the good in every problem. Look for the valuable lesson in every
adversity or setback. Look for something that you can gain from every
difficulty, and you will always find it.

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Rule #6: You can learn anything you need to learn to
achieve any goal you can set for yourself.
• You are designed by Nature to be a "learning organism." Anything that
anyone else has learned, within reason, you can learn as well. You can acquire
any kind of knowledge and develop any skill that you need to rise to the top
of your field.

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Rule #7: The only real limits on what you can do or be are
the limits you accept in your own mind.
• As Shakespeare said, "Nothing is, but thinking makes it so." Henry Ford said,
"If you believe you can do a thing or you believe you cannot, in either case,
you are probably right."
• You have within you, right now, all the talents and abilities you could ever
want or need to achieve any goal or dream you can set for yourself. The only
question you ever have to ask is: "How badly do you want it?"
• If you want anything badly enough and you are willing to persist long
enough, nothing can stop you from eventually achieving it.

By: Brian Tracy Created by: Sang Phan Viet
Good luck!
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