30 tips to outperform...

CA Ravish Trivedi (The Possibilities are Infinite...)   (772 Points)

24 January 2012  

 

Hi Friends,

The best performers and most successful people do to continually outperform everyone around them. 

Follow simple 30Tips that  invite you to concentrate on to achieve success:

1.     Remember that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

2.     Keep the promises you make to others - and to yourself. 

3.     The project that most scares you is the project you need to do first. 

4.     Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results. 

5.     Stop being busy being busy. Clean out the distractions from your work+life and devote to a monomaniacal focus on the few things that matter.

6.     In a world where technology is causing some of us to forget how to act human, become the politest person you know. 

7.     Remember that all great ideas were first ridiculed. 

8.     Remember that critics are dreamers gone scared. 

9.     Be "Apple-Like" in your obsession with getting the details right. 

10.  Take 60 minutes every weekend to craft a blueprint for the coming seven days. As Saul Bellow once said: "A plan relieves you of the torment of choice."

11.  Release your need to be liked. You can't be a visionary if you long to be liked. 

12.  Disrupt or be disrupted. 

13.  Give your teammates, customers and family one of the greatest gifts of all: the gift of your attention (and presence).

14.  Every morning ask yourself: "How may I best serve the most people?" 

15.  Every night ask yourself: "What 5 good things happened to me this day?" 

16.  Don't waste your most valuable hours (the morning) doing low value work. 

17.  Leave every project you touch at work better than you found it. 

18.  Your job is not just to work. Your job is to leave a trail of leaders behind you. 

19.  A job is not "just a job". Every job is a gorgeous vehicle to express your gifts and talents - and to model exceptionalism for all around you.

20.  Fears unfaced become your limits. 

21.  Get up early and take 60 minutes to prepare your mind, body, emotions and spirit to be remarkable during the hours that follow. Being a superstar is not the domain of the gifted but the prepared. 

22.  Smile at strangers. 

23.  Keep a journal. Your life's story is worth recording. 

24.  Do more than you're paid to do and do work that leaves your teammates breathless. 

25.  Leave your ego at the door every morning. 

26.  Set 5 daily goals every morning. These small wins will lead to little victories.

27.  Say "please" and "thank you". 

28.  Remember the secret to happiness is doing work that matters and being an instrument of service. 

29.  Don't be the richest person in the graveyard. Health is wealth. 

30.  Life's short. The greatest risk is risk-less living. And settling for average.