My 25 Secrets to Success

1.  Work hard
2. Keep trying
3. Learn from your mistakes
4. Have an open mind
5. Have self- discipline
6. Be honest
7. Take risks
8. Persistence
9. Strategize 
10. Concentrate
11. Be flexible
12. Work with others
13. Be creative
14. Create a powerful belief system.
15.  Invest in yourself
16.  You need Determination and Commitment
17. “The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart – this you will build your life by, and this you will become.”–James Allen
18. Go To Success  “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”–Marva Collins
19. Excellence is Required   “No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.” –Charles Kendall Adams
20. Use Your Will  “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.” –Vincent T. Lombardi
21.  Do and Dare “The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ‘sure-thing’ boat never gets far from shore.” –Dale Carnegie
22. Bring to everything you do your best. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well. Bring a sense of importance and caring to what you do. Be proud of being thought of as a person who cared.
23. Avoid harsh judgments of others. The world and human beings are too complex to permit sweeping judgments. To deeply resent or hate another person is to partake of a certainty that doesn't exist. There are no certainties.
24. Take prudent risks. Without the capacity to run calculated risks there is no chance for enhancement. Avoid rash acts or risks. These can bring trouble, and if one can avoid trouble there will be plenty of room for a decent life.
25. . Since part of life is struggle, the key resource in struggle is not to give up. Whether that struggle is with life threatening health problems or professional or personal problems, if one doesn't give up there is every chance of prevailing, and if one can't prevail then one can co-exist with the problem and still manage to have a good life.