What does it take to be successful?  Please contribute your own ideas in the comments section.  I would LOVE to hear from you.

• Change Your Thoughts First – If you try to change your actions without changing your thoughts you will fail.  Change your thoughts and your actions will follow automatically.
• Find Your Purpose – Acting with a deep purpose gives you an advantage most people don’t have. Vision, Purpose, Goals
• Invest for the Long Haul – I can see 1, 2, and 5 years down the road.  Can you?
• Don’t be impatient – Quality trumps quantity every time.
• Baby Steps – Inch by inch, life’s a cinch.  Yard by yard, life is hard.  Don’t focus on the gap between where you are and where you want to be.  Instead take a step, any step, in that direction.  Take a new step every day.
• Keep the Child In You Alive – Fearlessness, insatiable curiosity, getting up when you fall down.  The pure joy of living, struggling, learning, and growing.
• Dive Into Your Product With Passion Like No Other – Show your burning passion.  People will follow you if you display your real, passionate, and flawed humanity.
• Forget Get-Rich-Quick – Try Get-Rich-Slow-And-Stay-Rich instead.
• Be Yourself, Be Unique, Be Quirky – You have to be different.  You are different so be yourself.  Try to copy someone else and you’ll find you’re not nearly as good at being them as they are.  You’ll lose.   On the other hand, who is better at being you than you?
• Enjoy the Journey – The journey is life.  The destination is just a compass to keep you pointed in the right direction.  Finding Joy In The Journey
• Trust Your Intuition – Your non-conscious mind is much more powerful than your conscious mind.  What You Need to Know About Your Amazing Brain – Part I
• Stop Watching Television – What could you be doing with that time?
• Become THE Expert – If you study something one hour a day (your TV time) for one year there will be very few people competing with you who know more.  After 5 years…
• Compound Interest – What if you improved one very small thing about yourself every day?  How much change would you accumulate in 100 days?  In 1 year?  In 5 years?
• Paint Pictures In Your Mind – Your brain thinks in pictures.  Dream a magnificent, vivid, incredibly detailed dream.  See it, smell it, feel it, hear it, touch it, and taste it.  Really get into it.  Dream your dream every day and your non-conscious mind will deliver it to you.
• Write It Down, Make It Happen – The power of writing your goals, dreams, and thoughts in longhand with pen and paper should not be ignored.  Write it every day.  Dream it.  Be it.
• Create Heroic Goals – Force Yourself to make major changes.  Alternatively, you can tweak yourself to death. 17 Ways to Achieve Heroic Goals
• Make Your Goals a 10 – If your goals and dreams aren’t an absolute 10 in inspiring and driving you then why are you bothering?  If it’s not a 10 then take it off your list or change it to a 10.
• Don’t Trade Your Time For Money – You’ll automatically cap your earnings potential.
• MSI’s – Multiple Sources of Income.
• Do something – Do anything.  When you feel stuck just do.
• Do Less For Success – Practice simplicity.  Focus.  Concentrate.  Do one thing great rather than three things good.  Eliminate the Non-Essential From Your Life
• Be Healthy in Body and Mind– Take it from someone who knows.  If you don’t take care of yourself physically and mentally, you’ll lose out on everything Yes You Can! and The Brain That Changes Itself
• Ignore Your Critics – If you care what the naysayers think, you will be like everyone else.  You’ll be common.
• Positivity Leads to A Flourishing Life – Positivity Leads to a Flourishing Life
• Empower yourself – Just do it.  Don’t ask anyone – even if you have a boss.  I’ve done this my whole life and it works.
• Read Constantly and Learn Everything – Learn without end.  It will help you succeed and it’s personally satisfying.  Human nature requires growth to thrive.
• Make a good first impression – Unfortunately studies show that impressions are set in a few minutes the first time and those impressions usually last.
• Get Back to Nature – We developed in green spaces.  Our minds and bodies love the natural.  Natural Bias.  Eat, drink, and be nature.  Hug a tree.  Smell a flower.  Watch an animal.  Eat natural foods.  Surround yourself with nature to nourish your body and soul.  Naked in Eden
• To Have Versus To Be – It’s what you are not what you have.  To Have Versus To Be
• Be Fearless – Our brains developed in a dangerous physical environment that selected for conservative behavior driven by fear.  Those same traits hold you back now.  Slay the fear monster and just go for it.  You will not be eaten by a saber-tooth tiger.  A Guide to Beating the Fears That Are Holding You Back
• Live a Balanced Life of Excellence – How To Live Life

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