A great life doesn‘t happen by accident. A great life is the result of allocating your time, energy, thoughts, and hard work towards what you want your life to be. Stop setting yourself up for stress and failure, and start setting up your life to support success and ease. A great life is the result of using the 24/7 you get in a creative and thoughtful way, instead of just what comes next. Customize these "secrets" to fit your own needs and style, and start creating your own great life today!

1. S—Simplify. A great life is the result of simplifying your life. People often misinterpret what simplify means. It‘s not a way to remove work from your life. When you focus on simplifying your life, you free up energy and time for the work that you enjoy and the purpose for which you are here. In order to create a great life, you will have to make room for it in yours first.

2. E—Effort. A great life is the result of your best effort. Creating a great life requires that you make some adjustments. It may mean re-evaluating how you spend your time, or choosing to spend your money in a different way. It may mean looking for new ways to spend your energy that coincide with your particular definition of a great life. Life will reward your best effort.

3. C—Create Priorities. A great life is the result of creating priorities. It‘s easy to spend your days just responding to the next thing that gets your attention, instead of intentionally using the time, energy and money you have in a way that‘s important to you. Focus on removing the obstacles that get in the way of you making sure you are honoring your priorities.

4. R—Reserves. A great life is the result of having reserves—reserves of things, time, space, energy, money. With reserves, you acquire far more than you need—not 6 months living expenses, but 5 years worth; not 15 minutes of free time, 1 day. Reserves are important because they reduce the fear of consequences, and that allows you to make decisions based on what you really want instead of what the fear decides for you.

5. E—Eliminate distractions. A great life is the result of eliminating distractions. Up to 75% of your mental energy can be tied up in things that are draining and distracting you. Eliminating distractions can be a difficult concept to many people, since they haven‘t really considered that there is another way to live. Look around at someone‘s life you admire. What do they do that you would like to incorporate into your own life? Ask them how they did it. Find ways to free up your mental energy for things that are more important to you.

6. T—Thoughts. A great life is the result of controlling your thoughts so that you accept and allow for the possibility that it actually can happen to you! Your belief in the outcome will directly dictate how successful you are. Motivated people have specific goals and look for ways to achieve them. Believing there is a solution to the same old problems you encounter year after year is vitally important to creating a life that you love.

7. S—Start. A great life is the result of starting. There‘s the old saying everyone‘s familiar with "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." In order to even move from the couch to the refrigerator, you have to start. There‘s no better time to start than today. Don‘t wait for a raise, or until the kids get older, or the weather is better. Today, right now, is the right day to start to take a step in the direction of your heart‘s desires. It‘s what you do TODAY that will make a difference in your life tomorrow.

非凡人生不是一朝一夕形成的。它需要合理分配自己的時間、精力、心思，朝著自己的生活目標努力邁進。要走出憂郁和失敗，開始調整你的生活，迎接成功和安樂。要創造性地充分考慮好好利用生命中的分分秒秒，不要得過且過。讓我們從今天開始，根據下面的“秘訣（SECRETS）”和自身的需要及個性，打造屬于自己的非凡人生吧。
   
　　1. S——去繁化簡。非凡人生源于簡化生活。人們往往誤解‘簡化’的含義。簡化不是放棄工作。當生活真正簡化時，你就能騰出時間和精力用到你喜歡的工作和奮斗的目標上。創造非凡人生，首先必須創造自己的空間。

    2. E——不懈努力。非凡人生源于你的努力奮斗。這可能需要重新分配時間，或者調整理財方式。尋找新的方式把精力投向引領非凡人生的方向。有付出就會有回報。

    3. C——分清主次。美好的人生源于分清主次。不要看一步走一步，代之以有意識地把時間、精力和金錢用在你的重要方面。要想達到目的，就要善于梳理頭緒，掃清障礙，分清輕重緩急。

　　4. R——有備無患。非凡人生源于懂得儲備——儲備物品、時間、空間、精力和金錢。那樣，你就會獲得遠遠多于你需要的——不是六個月的而是五年的生活費；不是15分鐘的而是一整天的閑暇時間。儲備能減少顧慮，讓你能根據實際需要作出決定，而不讓擔憂來左右你。

　　5. E——專心致志。非凡人生源于專注。做事三心二意會耗費一個人75%以上的精力。很多人不知道如何清除雜念，因為他們從未想過換一種方式生活。看看周圍那些令你羨慕的人的生活方式吧！自己能從他們身上學到些什么呢？向他們請教，想辦法把精力集中到真正重要的事情上。

　　6. T——堅定信念。非凡人生源于你對于可期望的事情的十足信心。信心直接決定你的勝負成敗。有進取心的人目標明確，并且會想盡一切辦法去實現。生活中會反復遇到很多問題，相信這些問題終會解決，這是創造美好生活的關鍵。

　　7. S——立刻行動。非凡人生源于行動。有句大家熟悉的古諺“千里之行，始于足下”。即使再小的事情，例如從沙發走到冰箱前，也需要親自行動。從今天就開始行動吧，不要再找借口，說等漲工資了，等孩子長大了，或者等天氣好了再說吧。從今天開始，就去努力實現心中的夢想，這是最好的時機。今天你所做的就會為你明天的生活帶來變化。