Read 13 Ways To Improve Your Life

Here is how you can do that—13 ways to improve your 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 neighbourhood. 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.