Look at the big picture. You build your life upon your faith. You cherish your faith. You aren’t afraid to tell others of your beliefs. You stand for positive values. You are ethical in your dealings. You pray and meditate to have the courage to face your fears. You pray and meditate to have the strength to accept, endure and triumph over the hardships and small daily annoyances that the path to success
will present. You celebrate the good that you find in the world.

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Follow through to make sure that you’ve done the job right. Follow thro u g h to say thank you and offer new ideas. Follow through to ask for more business. You earn respect by saying what you’re pre p a red to do and then doing exactly that. Follow through shows that you are a person of your word and someone who cares. It shows that you are accessible and that you want to keep the lines of
communication open. You may make mistakes and follow t h rough gives you the opportunity to correct and to learn f rom those mistakes. Personalize your follow-up with handwritten notes and phone calls. Small gifts, tickets and lunches may also be appropriate follow-up incentives. Check up on yourself and reap the rewards. Follow through amplifies your effectiveness .

Create for yourself an evolving document that outlines your purpose in life. Who a re you? What are your values? What do you intend to do with your time to make your one life meaningful? Excepting acts of God, it is you who determines your f u t u re. You don’t have to listen to those who say you are too old, too young, too p o o r, too unattractive, too uneducated or the wrong color, gender or nationality. They are not speaking of someone following the Action Principles.

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A common denominator among the successful is that they are focused on the immediate accomplishment of specific objectives. Separate the important f rom the urgent and allow time for both. Break down any large task into a series of small tasks and start taking action. In the beginning, don’t be too concern e d with how you will achieve your goals. With commitment, re s e a rch and patience, the means will come. Answers materialize when the facts have been collected. Your goals will evolve into a set of action-oriented objectives, which will become a series of to-dos.

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Unless you shape your life, circumstances will shape it for you. You have to work, sacrifice, invest, and persist to get the results you want. Choose them well. You can’t start your planning until you know where you want to go.

You are the sculptor of your own image. Have others already done what you want to do? Study them and do what they did. Start anywhere, at anytime, and persist. Stop worrying what others think about what you can or can’t do. Believe in yourself and your abilities. Have the self-confidence to challenge your current situation. This is your life to live; it’s day by day and step by step.

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Trying to be perfect takes too much time and effort. It creates too much stress and is impossible anyway. Instead, strive to relax at the 90% level. This is the personal mastery level. Following the Action Principles, reaching the 90% level in most of your financial and social endeavors will be something that you don’t even have to think about. It will happen through your persistence, determination, hard work and nice personality.

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