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Engage in brick-by-brick thinking:  “All success is built and sustained just like a building is built, one brick at a time.” Henry Cloud, Ph.D. Amplify the reward : Envision your end result and keep it in the forefront of your mind. Build structure and systems around your goals:  The only way to stay disciplined and keep focus. Surround yourself with support: Surround yourself with people who will help you and encourage you if you want to succeed. Quitting isn’t an option: If you plant the seeds, but if you don’t water, fertilize and cultivate,  then you wasted your time by planting the crop and you will have no change to get the harvest.

  Focus on your strengths: you have potential to become great if you put your time and effort to develop your strengths rather than worried about your weakness. Focus on today: you can’t change the past nor the future, so give the present day your full attention and best effort. Focus on your priorities: Zig Ziglar said " Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.” Choose your priorities and use your time to achieve your goals. Focus on your results: Remind yourself of your purpose and keep focused on the big picture which drive to succeed. Focus on your contribution: Use your potential to make the world a better place for everyone.

They know their strengths and weaknesses and accept themselves for who they are. They set goals and align them with their personality, values, interests, strengths, skills, and purpose. They understand and accept that they can’t control what the world throws in their path, but they can control how they react to those obstacles. They accept that they will repeatedly go through tough times since nothing worth achieving without a struggle. They know that once they get to their destination, they will find another, so the journey is the destination.

The best speeches include a clear, relevant message and a few great stories to illustrate it. Be relevant to your audience. Ask yourself what problem the audience wants to solve, and talk about that problem first. Your job is to answer your audience question and then address the how.” Forget about fancy PowerPoint:  Make your speech simple from start to end because people don’t remember much of what they hear. Use anecdotes: If you’ve lived a story, you can tell it from memory and with genuine feeling.  And stories stick in people’s minds. In other words, if you make people feel what you are talking about, they won’t forget it.” Be relevant to your audience: Ask yourself what problem the audience wants to solve, and talk about that problem first. Then talk about your area of expertise as the solution to that problem. Jump right to the topic: Jump right in with a framing story, a statistic, a question or some kind of interaction with the audience that ...