Tips to Help You Make This Your Best Year Ever - Part 5

By Ruben Gonzales 

1. Be willing to try different approaches on the way to your goals.
2. Create a crystal-clear picture of what you want to accomplish.
3. Serve others. Your rewards in life will be proportionate to the value of your service to others.
4. Think about the future instead of the past. Focus on what you can do today to improve your future.
5. Discipline yourself to focus on the solutions, not on the problems.
6. Find out what other successful people in your field are doing, and do the same things yourself over and over.
7. Whatever you think about all the time will grow in your life.
8. "Work smart, not hard" is a joke. If you truly want to succeed, you'd better work smart and hard. The harder you work the luckier you'll be.
9. When opportunities appear, move quickly. Doors of opportunity close as quickly as they open.
10. You can't do anything about the past, therefore, remove the words "I should have..." from your vocabulary. "Should haves," create unnecessary guilt, suck the wind out of your sails, and take away positive energy that you could use to do something today.
11. Constantly ask yourself, "What can I do right now to reach my goal?" Then, do it right away.
12. When you move boldly in the direction of your dreams and goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.
13. What would you dare to do if you knew you could not fail? What are you waiting for? Do it now!
14. Act as if it were impossible to fail. Everyone is afraid. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is acting in spite of your fears. Face your fears and conquer them with swift action.
15. Winners understand that the road to success is filled with failures and challenges. Winners fail their way to success. One big success cancels out all the failures.
16. Assume that success is only a matter of time. Resolve to learn something from every setback, and decide that quitting is not an option.
17. Your persistence will fuel your self-belief and your self-belief will fuel your persistence. But you have to decide that quitting is not an option.
18. Positive self image does not come from people praising you. Confidence and positive self image comes from competence. From being good at whatever you do. And that comes from practice. Confidence and positive self image come from constantly facing your fears and refusing to quit.
19. Successful people talk about and think about what they want to happen. Unsuccessful people talk about and think about what they don't want to happen. You attract what you talk about. What are you talking about?
20. Make no small plans. Small plans and dreams don't have the power to inspire you and motivate you. Have a dream that takes your breath away. Only such a dream will motivate you to act.