Tips to Help You Make This Your Best Year Ever - Part 6

1. Everything you do is either getting you closer or further from your dream. Everything.
2. See things and people as they can be, not as they are.
3. Winners are willing to do the things losers are not willing to do.
4. Think big. Focus on the possibilities, not on the problems.
5. Control your thoughts and you control your life.
6. The faster you stop operating from a state of wishful thinking and get passionately committed to your dream, the better your life will be.
7. Limiting what you are willing to do limits what you achieve.
8. Know when to listen and know when to speak.
9. The books you read and the people you associate with will determine where you are in five years.
10. You determine your habits. You habits determine your future.
11. Nothing of value comes without effort. Decide you'll do whatever it takes. Decide you are willing to pay the price.
12. The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
13. High achievers have a drive that most of us can't even begin to imagine. They work every day at catching their breaks. They are ordinary people with extraordinary drive and work ethic. You can develop the same drive.
14. Once a year, read "How to Win Friends and Influence People," "The Magic of Thinking Big," and "The Power of Positive Thinking."
15. Every morning, get if front of the bathroom mirror, and serious as a heart attack, tell yourself what your dreams and goals are. Repeat this every time you are in front of a mirror. Do this and in time you will become unstoppable.
16. Success is a decision. It's all up to you.
17. Develop people and leadership skills. The only way to accomplish great goals is by building a team and working through other people.
18. What you believe will determine what you will do. What you do determines your results. Change your beliefs, and you'll change your results.
19. When you work hard enough and long enough that you start believing that you deserve to succeed, you'll start acting like a deserving person and success will come to you.
20. When you achieve your dream, pursue another dream. That's how to live a life of adventure. 

If you will embrace and consistently and persistently apply these principles, you will amaze people with all you accomplish. People will say you are lucky but you'll know luck had nothing to do with it.
Chase your dream. Never Quit.

From Ruben's critically acclaimed book, "The Courage to Succeed."