12 Life Lessons

Tonight I gave the graduation accent at the Leadership Triangle Academy Edition graduation that nineteen amazing bounded academy acceptance from Duke, UNC, NC State, NCCU, Shaw, Meredith, St. Augustine’s, and Peace academy accept alternate in. In alertness for the accent I wrote bottomward “12 Activity Lessons” I’ve abstruse in the aftermost ten years. I alone mentioned a scattering of them during the absolute speech, but actuality are the basic notes…

1. Beleaguer yourself with bodies you like and admire. You are who you beleaguer yourself with. It pays to accept the bodies you beleaguer yourself with carefully.

2. Put absolute thoughts into your head. The centralized bulletin that you acquaint yourself over and over becomes reality. Thoughts become things. Don’t be insecure. Be confident. YOU ARE AMAZING! You are all actuality because you are brilliant. Activity is a admirable opportunity. Believe in your ability to do good.

3. Laughter is the best anesthetic for stress. Laugh at yourself often. Acquisition what is funny in whatever bearings you’re in.

4. Booty time to anticipate about and address bottomward your goals and anatomy them!!! Set bigger goals than you anticipate are absolutely accessible to achieve and try to hit about 50% of them. If you’re hitting added than 50% of your goals, they’re not aggressive enough!

5. Don’t anguish about what added bodies anticipate about you. Just be yourself.

6. Travel the apple at every befalling you get. Booty an absorption in what’s activity on in the world. Know about the amazing opportunities in Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America.

7. Body accurate relationships in which you give. Don’t body affected relationships.

8. To acquisition a job, stop sending resumes out blindly! Just acquisition 5 bodies who you appetite to be in 20 years who accept able what you appetite to achieve and body an accurate accord with them at atomic a year afore you charge a “job”. Start by alms to booty them to coffee or cafeteria and accumulate allurement 1x per ages until they say yes :-) .

9. Don’t booty a accustomed job. Alone booty a job alive with abundant bodies accomplishing article you absolutely get pleasure doing.

10. Acquisition article you’re amorous about that you adulation accomplishing that you access the “flow state” back you do it, again amount out how you can actualize amount (and maybe accomplish money) accomplishing that!

11. Save and advance money whenever you can and never anytime go into debt for article you don’t need. Accomplish your money assignment for you.

12. Spend added hours account than you do watching TV! Book recommendations: Anticipate and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad, and How to Win Friends and Influence People.

What do you think?? What key activity acquaint accept you abstruse in the aftermost ten years?