It Takes 15 Minutes To Change Your Life

By Matt S. Law

Matt Law, in It Takes 15 Minutes To Change Your Life, discusses strategies for using fragments of time within each day to prosper in your personal, financial and spiritual life. With blunt brevity and humor he address goals, actions, habits, expectations, the power of words, attitude and adversity; all with the underlying theme of using fifteen minutes of each day towards aligning those forces to work for you in your life rather than against you.

To change your life does not require changing your whole life. Most people are unable or unwilling to completely overhaul their careers, their families, their homes, their hobbies, their daily activities. But by making changes in small increments - just for fifteen minutes a day - small changes can compound over time to yield great rewards. Sometimes you don't need a complete overhaul. All you need is a tune up and some daily maintenance.

From the back cover of the print edition:
Time is the most valuable commodity you have.The most valuable commodity that anyone has.
But people waste time,
kill time,
idle their time away.
Don't waste any more of your time. Don't even spend any more of your time.
Invest your time.
Invest a little of your time every day and you can change your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matt S. Law
• Release date: Apr 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310772986

Matt S. Law

Matt S. Law is a business developer, illustrator, creative genius, occasional actor, and also author focusing on success principle and motivational books.Matt began life as an idealistic young kid with dreams and goals and aspirations. After a sufficient amount of schooling he learned to be realistic and desire nothing more than safety and security and stability. After studying and mentoring under successful business leaders and multimillionaires he learned again to have dreams and goals and aspirations. He is currently striving to teach others the principles of success that he has learned.

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It Takes 15 Minutes

To Change Your Life

Matt S. Law

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Copyright © 2012 Matt S. Law

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DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my mentors, Gary and Laurie Chang. Thank you, Gary. You probably saved my life once without ever realizing how far down in the valley I was. Thank you also to my good friend, Jon Nakashima for introducing me to a phenomenal business team. Thank you to Scott and Cris Harimoto for setting an incredible example for others to follow.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

GOALS

ACTION

THREE POWERS

FIFTEEN MINUTES

ADVERSITY

ATTITUDE

FINAL THOUGHTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MATT’S BLOG

PREFACE

I've had the good fortune to begin my true education with a great group of business leaders and mentors just as soon as I graduated from the public university. I earned myself a BA in Art, although earned might be a strong word to use considering the amount of effort it took. I barely cracked a book in my five years of college and yet made the dean's list for my last four or five semesters. Maybe I'm naturally intelligent, because I certainly wasn't trying hard, but more likely I just learned how to tell the professors what they wanted to hear. Success in art, at the college level, is not about technical skill, it is about explaining your work to the observer.

Ultimately, I did not learn anything worthwhile during my college career. Not how to succeed in life certainly. Just how to blame all of society's problems on rich people. And as long as you parrot that belief back to your professors in a public university, you'll get a passing grade (this seems to work regardless of the course title). Really, all I learned in the process of getting a degree, was how to suck up to a boss by telling them what they want to hear. Leaving college, I certainly didn't feel more educated. I didn't feel like I was ready to enter the workforce of real grownups. I didn't feel qualified to do anything except draw pictures.

But fortunately a friend of mine introduced me to a business development team based out of the Pacific Northwest. They were all wearing suits. I was wearing a leather jacket and a pair of torn jeans. They were talking about success and financial freedom. I was thinking that rich people were greedy and corrupt. One of them told me that a young, good-looking guy like you could go far in the business world. I immediately recognized how smart and perceptive he was. So that began my relationship with a group of business entrepreneurs and my progressive education into the world of success principles, positive mental attitude, and years later to my salvation in Christ. All because a guy I'd never met complimented me and told me he believed in me.

So I've been groomed with a great deal of success knowledge, but what I've lacked over the years is the act of putting that knowledge into practice. Which really isn't that unheard of. The world is full of educated derelicts. Having a genius IQ will get you a dimes' worth of noodles—provided you have ten cents. Unused knowledge and unused wisdom are useless commodities. It's practically criminal in my opinion. But I've been pretty guilty of not living up to my own potential so far be it for me to point fingers at anyone.

The most valuable real estate in the world is the graveyard. Because so many people are buried with all their potential.

I've always been one to procrastinate. I've excelled in procrastination. I've always imagined that someday I would achieve the things I wanted. I always figured I would travel more after I became financially independent. I always figured I would produce more artwork later when I had more free time. I would start writing my novels after I got rid of my job. I finally came to the realization that I had as much free time this year as I had last year. And the twelve years before that.

A book that greatly impacted me was The Slight Edge, by Jeff Olson. It explained the idea of the power of gradual investments over time. How success is measured in pennies multiplied over the long term not in lightning-bolt-lottery success. To start a new writing project I did not need to set aside two weeks in a cabin in the woods alone with nature, God, and a typewriter. I could start today, right now. And as long as I continued to invest a small amount of time consistently, then the success would come.

So began the fifteen minute project. You hold in your hands a book that I wrote in just fifteen minutes, every day, over the course of 387 days. Did I have time to write a book? Looking back, no it sure didn't seem like it. I was as busy this past year as I was all those previous twelve years. But you know what I did have? I had fifteen minutes. Everyone can find fifteen minutes in their day. And if they can't, they can wake up fifteen minutes earlier. I just made sure that every day, I would stop whatever I was doing, grab my composition book and a pen, set a timer for fifteen minutes, and just write. Then when the timer went off, I stopped after the sentence I was working on. If I felt like writing more because I was really on a roll, I still stopped after fifteen minutes. Why? So that no one could accuse me of cheating by working twenty minutes on some days.

So can you write a book in fifteen minutes? Yes. I proved it. If that happens to be a goal of yours, then you can do it too. As long as you start and keep going until you finish.

"It may take a few years to put your success on track—but it takes your entire life to fail." Jeff Olson

How can this book help you? Some of you out there have never read a success principle, motivational, self-help, or inspirational book before in your life. If that's you, I hope this will be a gateway book for you. This book is short. In fact, I tried to keep the chapters short enough that it would only take about fifteen minutes to read (you may notice a recurring theme involving fifteen minutes). Which means that after six days, you'll be done with this book and then what? Then, you are on your own. If you want to continue to learn and grow, you'll need to seek out other books, other teachers, other coaches. So for the brand new person, I hope that this book is your gateway into a whole new world of personal growth.

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