Dear Mr. Self Development,
What are the Keys to Prosperity?
Melinda
Below are 101 Keys to Prosperity, follow them to the letter:
1. Discover your purpose and dedicate your life to fulfilling it
2. Deliver your creativity to the masses (for a small fee )
3. Choose your spouse very carefully
4. Read this entire list
5. Know where you’re weakest and where you’re strongest and improve both
6. Find good friends, who are going where you are going, & conspire to aspire before you expire
7. Keep balance between your finances, relationships, health, spirituality & happiness
8. Realize that done now is often better than done perfectly
9. Recognize that what you focus on expands
10. Leverage technology, as well as other people’s time & money for the greatest good of all
11. Recognize that you have all that the greatest of men have had
12. Keep a neat groomed appearance and dress your best everyday
13. Recognize that whether you think you can, or can’t, you’re right
14. Avoid consumer debt like the plague
15. Save more money than you spend
16. Study financial investments
17. Invest in yourself via books and education
18. Listen more than you speak
19. Valet park, if you can afford it
20. Invest your finances wisely
21. Diversify your portfolio
22. Overcome your five worst habits; then overcome your next five worst habits
23. Be your best and give your best effort in life
23. Know your financial net worth
24. Live responsibly, never compromise your values
25. Seek to grow everyday
26. Plan your days and your life
27. Find good mentorship and counselors that challenge you to change
28. Pursue your dreams and follow your heart
29. Be kind to strangers (e.g. say hello)
30. Forgive those who have offended you (all of them)
31. Have fun everyday
32. Be loving and kind and charismatic
33. Never ponder on a negative thought
34. Attend a Marriage Workshop or Seminar (before and after you get married)
35. Take a break everyday
36. Take a vacation every year
37. Hire people to perform activities that would keep you from doing more productive activities
38. Take good care of the people that take care of you
39. Become both a hard and a smart worker
40. Express yourself fully by always having that necessary difficult conversation as to avoid stifling a relationship (especially with a spouse)
41. Become better everyday
42. Cultivate the joy of reading good books that develop your mind; readers are leaders
43. Create a “Dreamboard” and place it where you will see it daily
44. Create a theme for each year, a single focus, and accomplish it (e.g. Spousal Relationship Improvement, Finances, et cetera)
45. Become a Toastmaster and expand your vocabulary
46. Workout daily
47. Express your love and respect to the people who mean the most to you
48. Tell your creator you would like to know who he is
49. Have a healthy diet, which impresses even you
50. Have close relationships with your family
51. Pursue a good education, one that is appropriate for you
52. Don’t make excuses and never complain
53. Keep a to-do list and do the most important things first
54. Do one activity that stretches you every week or maybe even everyday
55. Do stretching exercises everyday and walk upright
56. Do resistance training weekly
57. Have appropriate insurance
58. Have a written Will
59. Be confident and look people in the eyes
60. Know that you are loved
61. Know that you are priceless and that you deserve the very best
62. Connect with the spiritual side of you
63. Visit your doctor at least annually
63. Take care of your body
64. Respect your parents
65. Study successful people
66. Study your respective field of endeavor
67. Dream big
68. Never burn a bridge (neither literally nor figuratively )
69. Don’t take yourself too seriously
70. Take daily action
71. Give away a portion of what you earn to charitable work that you believe in
72. Live consciously and decide to be happy
73. Don’t die with your music still inside you, die totally empty
74. Discipline your children appropriately, so we don’t have to deal with them
75. Spend more time with your kids as they get older
76. Have no secrets that you keep from your spouse
77. Remember that everyone makes mistakes, and always forgive yourself
78. Understand the protocol of every environment you enter
79. Understand that your friends are a prophecy of your future
80. Travel and see the world
81. Meditate and visualize success daily
82. Never stop learning
83. Realize that your thoughts become your reality
84. Remain faithful to your spouse and always keep your word
85. Leave the world in better shape than you found it
86. Live peaceably will all men
87. Love yourself
88. Love your neighbor as yourself
89. Live a life that would make your children and your mother proud
90. Be courageous, you were born an original, don’t die a copy
91. Embrace excellence in every thing you do
92. Keep your home, office and cars clean
93. Have a budget and stay committed to it
94. Have daily, weekly, and monthly goals that stretch you
95. Find out where you came from and where you’re going to go when you die
96. Solve other people’s problems
97. Know that the ‘me’ you see is the ‘me’ you will be
98. Have faith in your ability to succeed
99. Get into action today
99. Know that you create your world
100. Recognize that you live in a friendly, not a hostile, world