The 17 Keys to Success

1. Ownership is the quality of accountability and responsibility.  It is not something assigned to you, but you personally choose to take ownership for things that happen in your life.

2. Flexibility is the ability to change what you are doing.  If it is not working, find something that does work.

3. Choice is the power to select or choose.  You have the freedom to make decisions and to choose preferences in your life.

4. Balance is the state of being wherein the mind, body and spirit function in alignment.  It is the ongoing adjustment you make to keep moving in a positive direction.  Balance is what keeps you tuned up, tuned in, and turned on.

5. Play is to have fun while discovering, risking and exploring your learning.

6. Failure=Feedback can lead to success.  Know that failures are only feedback.  Learn from your mistakes. 

7. Integrity is fidelity to moral principles: honesty, soundness, and completeness. 

8. This is it! The ability and commitment to focus your attention on the present moment and be willing to make, whatever you are doing, the most important.

9. Support to uphold or defend as valid or right; to assist so that one does not lose courage.

10. Persistence  is to continue in spite of interference.  Never give up!

11. Action is to bring about an accomplishment of an endevour, usually over a period of time, and in stages.

12. Win/Win to be favorable with one’s self and with others, at the same time.  To have compassion and passion for self and others.

13. Self-esteem Believing in one’s self; the vital ingredients are: physical safety, emotional security, mission, competence, affiliation and identity.

14. Speak with Good Purpose The skill of speaking in a positive sense by saying what you mean and avoiding negative Communication such as gossip and profanity.  When there is a problem, it means going to the person to whom it concerns and doing something about it.

15. Focus is to make a specific and clear image in your mind.

16. Passion is to feel a very strong love in your mind.

17. Vision is the power of perceiving by imagination or by clear thinking.