The Daily Dozen

John C. Maxwell is one of the greatest writers/motivators in our day. We encourage all to take a look at his books, he has written a handful of helpful guides on encouraging success and reaching ones full potential. His website is here John Maxwell.



One of our favorites is Today Matters: 12 Daily Practices to Guarantee Tomorrows Success.



In it, he gives us 12 daily practices to guide us in the right direction of achieving success. Here is The Daily Dozen:

1. Attitude: Choose and display the right attitude daily.
2. Priorities: Determine and act on important priorities daily.
3. Health: Know and follow healthy guidelines daily.
4. Family: Communicate with and care for family daily.
5. Thinking: Practice and develop thinking skills daily.
6. Commitment: Make and keep proper commitments daily.
7. Finances: Earn and properly manage finances daily.
8. Faith: Deepen and live out faith daily.
9. Relationships: Initiate and invest in solid relationships daily.
10. Generosity: Plan for and model generosity daily.
11. Values: Embrace and practice good values daily.
12. Growth: Desire and experience improvements daily.

Doing all 12 of these on a daily basis can be overwhelming at first. We suggest you pick 3-4 practices that you find to be the most difficult for you to do. Once you have mastered those, pick another 3-4 and so on until you naturally are integrating all 12 into your daily regime. Can you imagine how much more motivated and driven you would be if you did all 12 of these on a daily basis? We encourage all to start now. Remember, if you don't start today, you'll never start tomorrow!

10 Steps to Sales Success

In the Book The Greatest Salesman in the World - Og Mandino lays out 10 steps (leather scrolls containing secrets to the art of selling) that will drastically improve sales' skills through a young lad from Biblical times.

1- I will form good habits and become their slave. (Shed the old skin and start anew)

2-I will greet this day with love in my heart. (Love is the single most important quality for success, Mandino writes.)

3- I will persist until I succeed. (the prizes of life are awarded at the end of the trek.)

4- I am nature's greatest miracle. (I am here for a purpose, and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not shrink to a grain of sand.)

5- I will live this day as if it is my last. (Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has yet to come - make today your best day!)

6- Today I will be master of my emotions. (Moods come and go, but if your mood is negative, the day may be a failure. Bring joy and enthusiasm to every room)

7- I will laugh at the world. (Remember in hard times you have the unique ability to laugh. Don't take yourself too seriously.)

8- Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold. (setting goals will multiply your value exponentially. Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high, for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to aim my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock?)

9- I will act now. (Action is the food and drink that will nourish my success.)

10- I will pray for guidance. (Every good salesman should seek the advice of a higher power. He suggests praying only for guidance and never for material things)