TAKE THE STAIRS

No matter how you define success, it always requires one thing: self-discipline. But as popular speaker and strategist Rory Vaden explains, we live in an "escalator world"-one that's filled with shortcuts, quick fixes, and distractions that make it all too easy to slide into procrastination, compromise, and mediocrity. What seems like an easier path is really much harder in the end-and, most important, it won't take you where you want to go.

How do successful people stay focused and achieve results? This lively and insightful guide presents a simple program for taking the stairs-that is, for overcoming the temptations of quick fixes and procrastination, conquering creative avoidance, and transcending personal setbacks in order to tackle the work that leads to real success.
Whatever your goals are, Rory Vaden's proven approach will get you there-one stair at a time.

Quick fixes don't work. We live in a world of "get rich quick" and "lost weight fast but being successful requires self-discipline. Specifically, it requires the ability to do the hard work people don't really feel like doing. So how do successful people do it? In the tradition of Who Moved My Cheese? and Don't Eat the Marshmallow...Yet!, popular motivational speaker and self-discipline strategist Rory Vaden presents a unique combination of empowering insights into the human mind, practical advice for overcoming the temptation of procrastination, and a heavy dose of inspiration and encouragement to conquer creative avoidance and transcend personal setbacks. With Vaden's seven simple principles, readers will be able to do those things they need extra motivation to do so they can live the life they want to live.

Rory Vaden has gone the child of a single mother in a trailer park to a successful sales trainer, strategist, and motivational speaker. He is the cofounder of the multi-million dollar international training company Southwestern Consulting. Author website: roryvaden.com.