13 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR DAILY LIFE

13 WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR DAILY LIFE

1. Face your fears.

That’s how you conquer them. Don’t dismiss

them; face them. Say, Here’s what I’m afraid

of. I wonder what I could do to change that.

Face your fears today.

2. Exercise your willpower to change
direction.
You don’t have to keep doing what you’ve
been doing the last six years if it’s not yielding
the benefits you want. Pick a new destination
and go that way. Use your willpower to start
the process. You don’t have to repeat last year.
Clean up the errors. Invest it now in the next
year. Watch it make the difference.

3. Admit your mistakes.
Sometimes you have to admit them to others.
Here’s one of the best phrases in the English
language: “I’m sorry.” Those words could
start a whole new relationship. They could
start two people going in a whole new
direction. Admit your mistakes to yourself.
You don’t have to babble about them to
everyone in the neighborhood. But it doesn’t
hurt you to sit down and have a conversation
with yourself and say, There’s no use kidding
myself. Here’s where I really am. I’ve got
pennies in my pocket and I’ve got nothing in
the bank. That’s what I said after a Girl Scout
left my door. I had a conversation with myself
and I said, I don’t want this to happen
anymore.

4. Refine your goals.
Start the process. Set some higher goals.
Reach for some higher purpose. Go for
something beyond what you thought you
could do.

5. Believe in yourself.
You’ve got to believe in the possibilities.
You’ve got to believe that tomorrow can be
better than today. Believe in yourself. There
isn’t a skill you can’t learn; there isn’t a
discipline you can’t try; there isn’t a class you
can’t take; there isn’t a book you couldn’t
read.

6. Ask for wisdom.
Ask for wisdom that creates answers. Ask for
wisdom to deal with the challenges for today
and tomorrow. Don’t wish it was easier; wish
you were better.

7. Conserve your time.
Sometimes we get faked out. Motivational
speaker Bill Bailey says the average person
says, “I’ve got 20 more years.” But Bill says
you’ve got 20 more times. If you go fishing
once a year, you’ve only got 20 more times to
go fishing, not 20 years. That fakes you out.

8. Invest your profits.
Here’s one of the philosophies that my
mentor, Earl Shoaff, gave me: Profits are
better than wages. Wages make you a living,
profits make you a fortune. Could we start
earning profits while we make a living? The
answer is yes.1

9. Live with intensity
You might as well turn it up a notch or two.
Invest more of you in whatever you do. Be a
little stronger; be a little wiser. Step up your
vitality contribution. Put everything you’ve
got into everything you do and then ask for
more vitality, more strength and more vigor,
more heart and more soul.
10. Find your place.
If you just work at a job, find the best place
you can serve well, and sure enough they’ll
ask you to occupy a better place. Keep doing a
job well; do the very best you can. That’s
your best way out.

11. Demand integrity from yourself.
Integrity is like loyalty. You can’t demand it
of someone else; you can only demand it of
yourself. Be the best example of loyalty and
you’ll get loyal followers. Be the best example
of integrity and you’ll have people around you
who have integrity. Lead the way.

12. Welcome the disciplines.
I can’t give you much better advice than that
because disciplines create reality. Disciplines
build cities. A well-disciplined activity creates
abundance, uniqueness and productivity.

13. Fight for what’s right.
It’s extraordinary to be able to say: “I fought
for my kids; I fought for what was right; I
fought for good health; I fought to protect my
company; I fought for a good career that
would bless my family. I fought a good fight.”
It’s good to fight the encroachment. Opposites
are in conflict and you’re in the middle. If you
want something valuable, you’ve got to fight
for it.