| de billionaires come from all walks of life. Some | | | | have the self discipline to keep moving forward no |
| become billionaires very young, others late in life. Some | | | | matter what. |
| are highly educated, others are dropouts from the | | | | Personality Trait Number Four is Great Time |
| formal education system. But there are five essential | | | | Management |
| personality traits that they all have in abundance. | | | | All self made billionaires have magnificent time |
| Personality Trait Number One is Courage | | | | management. They get up early, typically around 5am. |
| Self made billionaires have the courage to dream big. | | | | They choose to do the most important tasks and |
| You don't become a billionaire by aiming for a new car | | | | ignore distractions. When they are working they are |
| or house or a 10% increase in your salary. You | | | | fully focused so that they get a full hour's results from |
| become a billionaire by aiming to be the best and | | | | each hour of their time. |
| biggest in the world at what you do. You have the | | | | Self made billionaires are long term planners and think |
| courage to set huge goals in order to get huge results. | | | | in terms of ten year goals, twenty year goals and |
| Self made billionaires also have the courage to be | | | | even longer time frames. Yet on the day to day basis |
| very different from those around them. They are so | | | | they plan their time in minutes aiming to get the |
| different from other people that they are often | | | | maximum possible returns for each minute they spend. |
| ridiculed as being weird. They have the courage to not | | | | Personality Trait Number Five is Resilience |
| let this bother them. They have the courage to follow | | | | This last of the five key traits of self made billionaires |
| their own dreams even if the whole world thinks they | | | | puts them poles apart from the average person. Most |
| are crazy. | | | | people give up far too soon but the self made |
| Self made billionaires have the courage to throw | | | | billionaires never give up no matter how well or how |
| themselves fully into what they are doing. They don't | | | | badly things are going for them. |
| mind risking failure. They are not people who are | | | | Because they have such huge goals and throw |
| looking for balance, they specialize in one thing and | | | | themselves 100% into those goals if they experience |
| they aim to totally dominate in this area. | | | | failure it is often failure on a grand scale but they have |
| Personality Trait Number Two is Obsession | | | | the resilience to bounce back from that failure and get |
| Self made billionaires become totally obsessed by | | | | back on the path to achievement. |
| achieving their goals. They become totally obsessed | | | | Self made billionaires don't revise or down grade their |
| by learning everything they need to know. They | | | | goals just because they experience failure, setbacks, |
| become totally obsessed by doing everything they | | | | criticisms, obstacle, sacrifice or any other difficulty. |
| need to do. | | | | They have the resilience to stick to their goals and |
| These are not people who are playing around with the | | | | break through any difficulty and ultimately succeed, |
| possibility of success these are people who are so | | | | Self made billionaires don't make excuses they take |
| obsessed by what they are doing that they don't even | | | | action. They don't blame others or their circumstances |
| notice that there are other things happening in the | | | | they take 100% responsibility for their outcome. They |
| world around them. | | | | have the resilience to weather any storm and this |
| Personality Trait Number Three is Self Discipline | | | | resilience is the glue that holds the other four traits |
| All self made billionaires have tremendous self discipline. | | | | together and keeps them moving onward and upward. |
| They have the discipline to do the things they need to | | | | How do you score on the five personality traits of |
| do no matter what work load is required. They have | | | | billionaires? |
| the discipline to make whatever sacrifices they need | | | | You may not want to be a billionaire. You may not |
| to make no matter what the cost. They have the | | | | want to be so extreme in your life but if you have the |
| discipline to find a way to achieve their goals no matter | | | | five traits of the billionaire in reasonable measure then |
| what obstacles are put in their path. | | | | you can succeed at a level far greater than the |
| Self made billionaires are like great athletes who have | | | | average person without needing to be the total fanatic |
| the self discipline to not only push through the pain | | | | required to make billions. |
| barrier but to increase the pace just when they feel | | | | It is an interesting exercise to assess yourself on each |
| like giving up. They don't allow pain, problems, obstacles, | | | | of the five traits as a means of predicting your own |
| the opinions of others, failure, rejection or any other | | | | level of future success in life and, if necessary, giving |
| pressure to push them off their chosen path. They | | | | yourself a tune up in the areas that you are lacking. |