The Greatest Lessons 2013 Taught Me..!!

As we wind down 2013 and hopefully refuel during these next few quiet weeks, sending out a list of the best lessons I’ve learned/applied over the past 12 months which has become my tradition…

I’m all set to make 2014 the single best year of MY life yet……some great things to think about…

So that come January, you’re on fire with focus, passion and outright excellence…

…you’re talented and smart so you know this KEY IDEA:

the decisions you make in January completely set the stage for whether you fly or get stuck so I really want you to start POWERFULLY…

So…

Here are few things that 2013 taught me…

1. Success has less to do with hard work and more to do with massive focus on your few best opportunities.
2. The more you invest in growing and developing your mindset and way of seeing the world, the more everything you touch transforms in a breathtakingly positive way.
3. Spending full days with zero technology to refuel or do important work is a game-changer.
4. Doing something super-nice for at least one stranger a day gives them a gift and an even larger one to yourself.
5. Most tv is toxic.
6. Have the discipline to clean out all the energy-draining people in your life. You really do rise or fall to the level of your associations.
7. Doing huge dreams we have never done can be frightening. Yet when we push to the edges of our limits, our limits expand.
8. If you don’t make the time for yourself to get inspired, no one around you will ever be inspired.
9. Your diet affects your moods. Eat like a superstar.
10. Talk less. Do more.
11. Integrity is more valuable than income.
12. Learn to love yourself. It’s the great rule for being loving with other people..
13. Money invested in personal development and professional growth generally has a 30X plus return on investment 
14. Real leaders have the guts to have the hard conversations.
15. Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement.
16. The quality of your practice affects the caliber of your performance.
17. Reviewing your Big 5 annual goals every morning and working on your plan every day is an exceptionally powerful way to breed unbeatable focus and drive.
18. Measure your success via your influence and impact versus only by your income and net worth.
19. To become successful, first learn how to be happy. Too many think that the route to happiness is to get successful. Untrue.
20. Getting ultra-fit lifts every other area of your life.
21. Self-belief is so incredibly important. Because if you don’t believe you can achieve a vision/goal, then you won’t even start to do the work needed to achieve that vision/goal.
22. Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear.
23. Join a mastermind group. It’s just remarkable what being in a room full of people who are smarter than yourself does for your performance.
24. You rarely go wrong when you trust yourself.
25. Writing learning down works so much better than typing things down on a computer.
26. Become one of the rare people who don’t know how to quit (unless it really is time to quit).
27. Smile. It truly makes a difference to the people around you.
28. Just because excellent manners are not so common doesn’t mean that excellent manners are not incredibly important.
29. It’s so much better to fail trying than to not even get into the game.
30. Music just makes life a whole lot better.
31. You can change the world or you can worry about fitting in but you just can’t do both.
32. Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and beautiful at the end.
33. The real key to getting great things done is stop doing so many good things.
34. Small little details done excellently and consistently stack up into something the world sees as Mastery.
35. Spend time in nature to renew and refuel.
36. Less entertainment, more education.
37. Gratitude is the antidote to misery.
38. We become happier not by accumulating more things but by creating richer experiences.
39. Your self-identity is what really determines your income, influence, impact and lifestyle. Retrain that and your bigness comes out to play.
40. The more you serve, the more joyful you’ll become.
41. Life’s short. Have fun.

Hope these lessons kickstart your mindset and your game, so you start 2014 on an ultra-powerful note....!! :-)