Your First 100 Million-Book Summary

Super-Success – Not for the Touchy-Feely

In Your First 100 Million Pena believes that if you want to be successful and super successful at that, you can’t afford the luxury of being wishy-washy. Success in life, like in war, comes only to the toughest son-of-a-bitch in the valley. High performance is the gladiator of glass tower they are not touchy-feel they are tough as nails.

People who think they can get rich quickly in today’s world they are either stupid or they are just about to kill their rich uncle. To be rich means you have to take some risk, super successful take risk that is how they accumulate money. To think otherwise is fantasy at best. People who don’t take the risk in business can’t make real money. There is no safety in being a high-performance person.

You’ll never experience a Quantum Leap which is an explosive or geometric growth without taking risks. If you don’t take risk your business will start to wither.

Prepare to pay the price for super success

To achieve success in life you must be willing to experience some trade-offs or what the author calls Pay Price to Action. The mooches who preach that ‘you can have it all’ they’re BSing you, the reality is you have to give up something to get something. You must have the gut to ask yourself – what are you willing to give up, or to trade-off, to get what you want? You must be willing to throw your hat over the wall and commit yourself to your dream.

Take some risks- The super successful understand that they need to take some risks to grow

Avoid convention wisdom- most of ‘how to’ success book, ‘experts’ all they tell you is how to conform to conventional wisdom, they sell fraud, they just want to make money from you.

Forget what others think of you- The Trumps, the Steve Jobs, the Bill Gates of this world they don’t give a hoot what you think about them. They have the confidence in what they do, in their judgment and they are firm on their decisions. They don’t second guess themselves and neither should you. Trying to please people is a sure-fire way of failure.

Don’ fear failure, understand it.

Listen to your intuition- it is almost right– Intuition plays a big role in the life of high performers.

Never look back.

Learn to make a decision and move quickly; make your decision as a final word on the matter. You can make corrections down the line based on your situation but you can’t afford to second guess yourself. Embrace confidence in your ability to make the decision. If you are a deal kind of person and you presented your deal on the table and the panel rejects it walk and don’t look back because they are watching you through the windows to see whether you are looking back. Walkout like they are the ones that missed out and not you.