We start by acknowledging that whatever it is... will not happen by accident. By itself, excellence cannot occur accidentally. Whatever steps are taken along the way, they're not serendipitous steps; they're planned steps. If you think you "know in your mind" exactly what needs to be done, we can see how well you know it by how much it shows in your life, and in how the rest of us view you.

Now if you took that negatively, you're right. If you took that positively, you're also right. Henry Ford invented the automobile, for crying out loud; he obviously thought on levels that are different from yours or mine. If you enjoy sufficient wisdom to really grasp the truth of that, then it means that his advice on subjects he is more expert in must surely be effective shortcuts!

By eliminating some eighty to ninety percent of all trial and error, you have a guaranteed shortcut.

What exactly is it about the word "shortcuts" that turns you off? Is it guilt for not having earned the best knowledge without shedding blood, sweat, and/or tears for it? Don't be ridiculous. The purpose of a chocolate chip cookie recipe is to save you from the majority of trial and error cycles, bringing you to the desired finished product faster and more efficiently. Everything else is the unique imprint you place with your personality, temperament, words, and actions.

In the same paragraph of time that you understand this, you definitively harness a unique power of nature designed by the Architect of the Universe with tranparently clear intent. No excellence can exist accidentally. Therefore everything of excellence was intended. Highly accelerated results are a natural extension of this, proven by the fact that they work approximately 100 percent of the time!

You get to place your imprimatur, a single word to describe the combination of your personality and your temperament, your words, your actions, the sum of your knowledge and your outlook so unique we call it your very own "coign of vantage:" your unique outlook. When we add your imprimatur to the words and actions of those who've already done it even more than a hundred times better than most of us, you have defined accelerated success, accelerated results through the use of shortcuts. Who amongst us is qualified to offer shortcuts more effective than the specific shortcuts of masters and millionaires, the shortcuts and so-called secrets of champions and billionaires?

Whatever my personal ideas and opinions were, there is no better source than the horse's mouth, those who do it better; those who do it better than any of us and do it repeatedly better than all of us.

In three years I was able to study, interview and/or break bread with, more than five thousand of the most successful people in history (mostly modern history)..I was able to study tapes, books, research, experimentation reports, videos, and more.... full time. In my case, that's characteristically 100 to 130 hrs per week.

Throughout this period, I tried to list every common word and action among these people. Whittling my collected notes to about 4000 pages, and 200 tape cassettes and several hundred biographies-autobiographies, & everything I could find about these people. At the same time, I experimented with some of the commonalities, which are reasonably called "shortcuts" in my own life. It seemed to me that nooooooobody knows better about how to do something..... than people who have done it. Not talked about it, advised about it, suggested/demanded/offerFF0000; no, no, no, we're talking about PEOPLE WHO WENT OUT AND DID IT.

They are the horse's mouth. Everyone else, from my coign of vantage, can be found at the other end of the horse.

Thanks primarily to the incredible shortcuts of masters and millionaires, three years grew into four years, five, and beyond, studying, interviewing, breaking bread with role models.