"What if I told you 20 minutes a day is all it would take to radically change your life?" asks Trevor Blake, author of Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life. "A simple daily habit of taking quiet time allows us to find our path away from the quicksand of life and into moments of insight." The author speaks from experience. He started an Internet company from home using a few thousand dollars of his savings. A few years later, without ever hiring an employee or leaving his home office, he sold it for more than $100 million.