- Dream Big
You have to have a dream if you want to make a dream come true.
Practice "back from the future" thinking.
Create a vision for yourself for the long-term future.
What one thing would you dare to dream if you knew you could not fail? Look back and work to achieve it.
- Develop a clear sense of direction.
You become what you think about most of the time.
What you think about and how you think about it. (Goal Oriented)
- See yourself as self-employed.
Refuse to make excuses or to blame other people for your problems or short comings
Stop complaining about things in your life that you are not happy about.
Refuse to criticize other people for anything.
You are responsible.
If there is something in your life that you don't like, it is up to you to do something about it.
But you are in charge.
- Do what you love to do.
"If you won a million dollars, tax free, tomorrow, would you continue to do what you are currently doing?"
- Commit to excellence.
What one skill, if you developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on your life?
- Develop a workaholic mentality
Practice the "40 Plus" formula. Any time you work more than 40 Hrs in a week is for your development.
Work all the time you work.
- Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning.
Leaders are learners.
Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body.
- Pay yourself first.
Save and invest 10% of your income throughout your working life.
If you cannot save money, then the seeds of greatness are not in you.
- Learn every detail of your business.
Read all the magazines in your field. Read and study the latest books.
- Dedicate yourself to serving others.
Your success in life will be in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do.
Always go the extra mile
What can I do to increase the value of my service?
- Be impeccably honest with yourself and others.
What kind of a world would my world be, if everyone in it was just like me?
- Set priorities on your activities and concentrate single mindedly on one thing at a time.
What are my highest value activities? What is it that you do that is more valuable than anything else to your work and your business?
Why am I on the payroll? What exactly have you been hired to accomplish?
What can I and only I do that, if done well, will make a real difference?
What is the most valuable use of my time right now?
Commit yourself to work single mindedly on one task, the most important task, and stay with it until it is 100% complete.
- Develop a reputation for speed and dependability.
Whenever you want to get something done, give it to a busy man, or woman.
When you can combine your ability to determine your highest priority task with the commitment to getting it done quickly and well, you will find yourself moving to the front.
- Be prepared to climb from peak to peak in your life and in your career.
Develop long-time perspective.
Keep reminding yourself that everything in your life goes in cycles and trends.
- Practice self-discipline in all things.
Self-discipline means self-mastery, self-control, self-responsibility and self-direction.
Successful people are more concerned with pleasing results. Failures are more concerned with pleasing methods. Successful people do things that are goal achieving. Unsuccessful people do things that are tension relieving. Successful people do the things that are hard and necessary and important. Unsuccessful people, on the other hand, prefer to do the things that are fun and easy and which give immediate enjoyment.
- Unlock your inborn creativity.
Your creativity is stimulated by three things: intensely desired goals, pressing problems and focused questions.
- Get around the right people.
More than 90% of your success will be determined by your “reference group.”
Be a go-giver rather than a go-getter.
- Take excellent care of your physical health.
Eat less and exercise more.
Eat better foods and fewer of them.
- Be decisive and action oriented.
Think carefully and then make decisions quickly.
- Never consider the possibility of failure.
Dare to go forward.
What is the worst possible thing that could happen if I go ahead?
Make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.
Failure is not an option!
- Back everything you do with the twin qualities of persistence and determination.
The courage to persist in the face of adversity and disappointment is the one quality that more than anything, will guarantee your success.
Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.
*Reference from 21 Secrets of self made Millionaires.
