1.    Get serious about the two most important things: 1. Setting your goals and where you want to go in the next five/ten year time span. Ten years from now you will surely arrive somewhere. The question is where. 2. Personal development, that means striving hard to become the kind of person that you want to be, meaning you have to work at it. Ten years form now you will surely become someone. The question is who. So to answer the questions “Where do you want to go?” and “Who do you want to be?” you must get serious.

2.    Get smart. To make your life worthwhile you must have some ideas and information, so you need to be smart and read books. How do you get smarter? Keep a journal, go to lectures, attend seminars, pick up ideas from other people. You just need to keep up the steady process of learning and never cease your quest for knowledge. That’s one of the key points to go from average to fortune. Get smart.

3.    You’ve got to get going. All of the things that you have learned will not cause you much good if you don’t put them into an action plan. You’ve got to get going and put all the things that you have learned into action. Knowing and not doing is worthless. One of the most important things to learn is how to design your day, how to design your weeks, how to design the month, so that you take the proper actions to get the proper return that you are looking for. Get going is a major key.

4.    You must get excited, not meaning the false enthusiasm of pure positive thinking. You must get excited over some basic things. One is get excited over your ability to make yourself doing the necessary things, because discipline is the major step to our personal progress. Get excited about your potential. Human capacity is never the problem. Little children can learn several languages and we can learn to do the most incredible things, all what we need to do is taking the time to do it. So, it is not a matter of capacity, it’s a matter of judgment, excitement, will and wanting-it-too-bad enough.

5.    You have to get away. You must learn to get away and be alone, get away and reflect, get away and learn how to live your life. You have to learn how to build your lifestyle. Some people have money but they don’t know how to spend it. Some people have success but they don’t know what to do with it. They don’t get joy out of it. Instead, they get animosity. Success without fulfillment equals failure. Then you need to take time to cultivate good friends, to be with your family, to be with the people who are important to you. Get away, take the time, reflect on your life, recharge your batteries, do some growing. And when you come back to your enterprise you’ll find that things will really go much better.