Success requires action, and action requires thought. - Gary Keller

Here is what I do: I get up every day by six A.M. and meditate and pray — for spiritual energy. Then, I exercise and eat — for physical energy. Afterward, I hug, kiss, and laugh with my family — for emotional energy — and try to do it so that I get to spend time with all of them and still get to the office between eight A.M. and nine A.M. (Most people plan for emotional energy time only in the evenings or on weekends, when it can do little for their daily pursuit of big goals.) I then plan and calendar my day — for mental energy — and spend my first, most energized hours in the office working hard on lead generation and recruiting talent — for business energy. I never slack off before eleven A.M.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

I’ve played the board game Risk with my son and witnessed an otherwise guileless, wonderful child morph into a little Napoleon plotting my demise. If everyone, even the sweetest child I know, is capable of this level of competitiveness, why don’t we all apply the same level of strategic thinking and competitiveness to our careers? And, by the way, why shouldn’t our work be just as entertaining? Almost all of the Millionaire Real Estate Agents we’ve worked with or interviewed for this book were, by nature, very competitive people.