I taught Kathleen how to track her spending, and she began to carry her notebook. I told her to open a separate savings account with only $33-just 1 percent of her existing monthly income. I then showed her how to live on $33 less the next month-
All winners are trackers. Right now I want you to track your life with the same intention: to bring your goals within sight.
That's why I'm asking that you commit to choosing a category and a start date, now, before you turn this page.
I am going to start tracking on. [date/month/year]
Tracking is my go-to transformation model for everything that ails me. This is where I'm going to become a hard-ass and insist you track your behaviors for at least one whole week. This is where I'm going to become a hard-ass and insist you track your behaviors for at least one whole week.
As Jim Rohn would say, "What's simple to do is also simple not to do." The magic is not in the complexity of the task. The magic is in the doing of simple things repeatedly and long enough to ignite the miracle of the Compound Effect.
Simply carry around a small notebook, something you'll keep in your pocket or purse at all times, and a writing instrument. You're going to write it all down. Every day. Without fail. No excuses, no exceptions.