Pay attention! What is working? What has worked? Do more of what is working and do less of what is not working. Many of us get this backward. We redouble our efforts on what is not working, in the vain hope that more work, more effort, and the expenditure of more resources will change something from not working to working. Sheer effort of will does not do it! No, please pay attention to what is working, and no matter how boring, troublesome, annoying, irritating, difficult, or challenging it might be, and do more of that. Stop doing the stuff that is not working … or at least try to minimize the damage from it as best you can.

For example, a rule that says: “I will not spend loonies”1 will result in you accumulating a pocketful of loonies, and you will have to do something about it or your pants will fall down. At this point, you can go to the bank and deposit the loonies into your account, or you can go to the store, spend that pocketful of change, and scrap that rule (assuming that becoming wealthy is not important to you). If you do something, in business, that results in sales, do more of that. Pay attention and reap the rewards. The true warrior reads the signs. The true warrior pays attention to everything, determines those things that work, does more of that, and succeeds to the great wonderment of all those around them. You are warriors, and by paying attention to what is working, you will create a great, burgeoning success. So it has been written.