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Million Dollar Habits: Proven Power Practices to Double and Triple Your Income

By Brian Tracy

Business Life Time Management

In Million Dollar Habits, Tracy teaches readers how to develop the habits of successful men and women so they too can think more effectively, make better decisions, and ultimately double or triple their income. Readers will learn how to organize their finances, increase health and vitality, sustain loving relationships, build financial independence, and take a leadership role to turn visions into reality.

Release Date
2004
Publisher
Entrepreneur Press
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Our Review

About the book

Brian Tracy’s guide argues that most success, financial and personal, comes from habits formed deliberately over time. It covers habits around goal setting, work, money, health, relationships and character, with practical exercises for replacing unproductive patterns with more effective ones.

Our review

Brian Tracy’s habit playbook packs decades of seminar wisdom into one practical, if familiar, toolkit.

Tracy’s premise is straightforward: successful people are not necessarily smarter, they simply run on better habits. The book works through those habits area by area, covering goals, time, money, health, relationships and character, and closes chapters with action steps. We liked how concrete it is; this is a book designed to be used, not just read. For readers new to personal development, it offers a solid, organized overview of the field’s core ideas.

For anyone who has read Tracy before, though, much of it will feel like a rerun of his other books and talks. The examples lean heavily on sales and business, and the cheerful certainty that the right habits guarantee wealth can feel simplistic. It also predates much of the newer research on habit formation, so readers wanting the science behind behavior change may prefer more recent titles.

What we loved

  • Organized, practical action steps
  • Covers many areas of life in one place
  • Encouraging, no-nonsense tone

Keep in mind

  • Overlaps heavily with Tracy’s other books
  • Light on the science of habit formation

Read it if you like

fans of Eat That Frog!, readers of The Magic of Thinking Big, salespeople and entrepreneurs starting out

The verdict

A useful starter kit for building better habits, though seasoned self-help readers will find little new.

Author

Brian Tracy