Tips to Help You Make This Your Best Year Ever - Part 2

By  Ruben Gonzales

1. Protect your attitude. Your attitude determines your altitude. Average talent with great attitude will beat out great talent with bad attitude every time.
2. Read biographies then model your life after the lives of successful people.
3. Don't complain about your circumstances. Decide you will make your own circumstances.
4. Don't kid yourself. Life is hard. Success takes time and massive action.
5. You only live once. Go for the Gold. Decide you will not simply exist. Decide to live an exciting life. Don't just take up space. Make a difference so you will be missed when you are gone. Decide to leave a legacy.
6. Be willing to pay the price of success. No pain no gain.
7. Vividly imagine what your victory will feel like. Replay that victory all the time. It's your preview of coming attractions.
8. Act in spite of your fear. No guts no glory.
9. Whenever in doubt, go with the bolder choice.
10. Base your plan on your strengths.
11. Humble yourself to the leadership of those who have done what you want to do. Ask for help and you will succeed faster.
12. Believe in yourself. Persist in the face of challenges. Don't take "No" for an answer.
13. Celebrate every small victory.
14. Follow your heart.
15. Constantly look for ways to simplify your life.
16. Anger gives people courage to do things they usually would not do. Whenever you are angry, don't waste your anger doing negative things. Harness the energy in your anger to reach your goal.
17. Embrace change. Change brings opportunity to win.
18. If you're not failing you are playing too safe and you are not growing. If you want to succeed faster, double your failure rate.
19. Bite off more than you can chew.
20. Live your life with passion.
21. Read good books, listen to self-development tapes, and attend seminars.