Kaizen

Unless you shape your life, circumstances will shape it for you. 

Have others already done what you want to do? Study them and do what they did.
 
Believe in yourself and your abilities. This is your life to live.

Goals are dreams with dates attached. You will only become as great and as happy as the goals you choose.
 
Don’t be too concerned with how you will achieve your goals. With commitment, research and patience, the means will come.
 
Answers materialize when facts have been collected and you are open to the people who appear in your life.
 
Your goals will evolve into a set of action-oriented objectives.

Prioritize: If you don’t prioritize your day’s activities, everything is of equal importance.  
 
You want all your activities to be important, to have had a clearly defined purpose. Make at least one of your daily objectives a challenge.
 
Who are you? What are your values? What do you intend to do with your time to make your one life meaningful? Always be aware of the big picture. 

Don’t complicate your life. Work from basics. Re-examine how you are doing things. Is a task consuming all of your time? Is it worth the time you are investing? Do you have the necessary resources? Can it be delegated?
 
Constantly seek ways to do things better in all areas of your life. The Japanese have a word for the concept of never ending improvement, kaizen.
 
Commitment comes from the inside out and is tested often. Measure yourself against the best. Most others will choose to be average. This is what average means. You won’t know your limits if you don’t keep trying.
 
Think of success not as a peak to be climbed but a high plateau to be walked.