| The most important lesson that I've learned is 1) Be prayerful. 2) Be grateful. 3) Be prepared. 4) Be curious. 5) Be generous. 6) Be excellent. 7) Be thoughtful/strategic. 8) Be good at what you do and choose to be what you are good at. 9) Execute. 10) Invest and save. |
| I want to encourage you to concentrate on the above. Get the fit right. Live by a set of proven life principles. No need to reinvent, but you must be smart enough to observer, think, apply and execute. When you communicate, think about what you want people to 1) know, 2) feel and 3) do. When you think, generate a thesis and then test it with the facts. If you were wrong, you learned something. If you were right, you learned something. Learn to listen. Use your ears as a way to ingratiate yourselves to others. Learn how to sell your ideas, yourself, a product. Always be closing. Learn who you are, test yourself - literally. Understand your personality, your motivations and the full opportunity set available to you so that you can execute your mission and calling in life. Harness every tool available to you to do that work. Go after that work with reckless abandon. Do not worry about the money, it will come. Just be good at the calling and the mission. God will provide for all of your needs. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Know that the sooner you go to bed, the sooner you wake up and it takes 10 years to become an expert at anything. Best, Robert |
