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1. Dream big; creative visualization (think about your dreams) mental rehearsal; and imagine yourself at 10 times today’s earnings.

2. Do what you love to do; become better and better; commitment is starting point; commitment to excellence; and become the best at what you do.

3. Focus on your strength – they’re unique; introspection – what are they; and ask people you respect what should I do?

4. See yourself as self-employed; be the president of your company; work for yourself; treat your company like you own it; and remember “if it’s to be, it’s up to me.”

5. Never consider failure; life has ups and downs; learn from setbacks; and wisdom plus reflection.

6. Clear sense of direction; clear sense of goals; work on them everyday; decide what you want; and what price you will pay.

7. Develop workaholic mentality; 12 hours a day; 8 hours to survive; over 8 for investment; and go harder.

8. Get around right people; positive, goal oriented and successful people; associate with winners.

9. Be teachable; open to new information; do not be impressed with your own intelligence; be ready to learn; take in new information; and ask questions, and advice from people who knows.

10. Be prepared to climb from peak to peak; valley between each (ebb and flow); up and down – always; and roll with it.

11. Develop resilience; bounce back; and remember all peak performances bounce no matter how hard they hit.

12. Unlock your creativity; do 10% better; demand your strengths; and stretch your originally and speed.

13. Focus on continuous personal development; with books, tapes, seminars, reading, studying, listening, practicing, and developing your mind.

14. Be an unshakable optimist; look for the good in every situation; confident expectations no matter how bad; expect to be rich; expect to be successful; you get what you expect, not what you want; and stay away from negative people.

15. Dedicate yourself to serving others; people who give are the happiest and have the most; people who take have the bare minimum; top performers lose themselves in other peoples reward; and put value on your service.

16. Develop a reputation for speed and dependability; develop a sense of urgency – do it now; get on with the job; and act fast on opportunities.

17. Be impeccably honest to yourself and others; honesty, truth, integrity and absolute trust in the foundation of our system; and always deliver on your commitment.

18. Concentrate on one thing at a time; set priorities; concentrate on top task 100%; concentrate 100% of your energy on one single task; what is the most valuable use of your time right now; do it 100% and then go on.

19. Be decisive; make decisions quickly; think and act; characteristic of genius is to make decisions quickly; remember a bad decision is better than no decision at all.

20. Back your plans and goals with persistence and determination; stick to it longer than anybody else; your measure of belief is yourself; persistence is a habit; and never quit.

21. Self mastery; self control; self discipline; develop capacity to force yourself to do what you know you must do – when you should do it – whether you like it or not; and master key to riches.

May you continue down your path to fulfill your destiny – cheers!

People that know me have heard me say for quite some time that for every positive and amazing effort you do in life you will consequently have equal and opposite forces working against you. Well today, I ran across something that I thought was very interesting from Albert Einstein. He said: “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

When I read this, I was completely floored. Albert Einstein has always been an inspiration to me, especially with his thoughts on how creativity is more important than knowledge. Anyone can learn how to do something or memorize something, but it takes a true open mind to create something from nothing. That is pure creativity. Cheers!