I wrote this list down, and I wanted to share it with you. I could write a whole article, at least, about each of these items, but I wanted to give you this list and see what you think of it. Here are 100 things that I know from experience work really well.
- Persistence
- Holding a vision for what you want and trusting that it’s coming
- Following inspiration
- Challenging limiting beliefs
- Treating people with kindness and respect as much as possible
- Being open to feedback
- Being willing to change or pivot
- Being patient with things breaking or not working out as planned
- Being gentle on and with the self
- Noticing and appreciating as much goodness as possible in others
- Getting regular and sufficient sleep
- Being honest and transparent
- Enjoying and engaging with challenges
- Catching victim thinking and taking back your power
- Taking action to address or solve the larger problems
- Slowing down
- Re-evaluating priorities regularly
- Valuing people and relationships above all else
- Enjoying people and expressing that enjoyment
- Not dimming your light to make others feel okay about dimming theirs
- Continual learning
- Taking notes
- Writing or speaking your stream of consciousness, unfiltered, and then throwing it away
- Trusting that everything that needs to get done will get done
- Planning fun and enjoyable things
- Inventing new things
- Questioning the automatic response of “you can’t” or “it’s not possible”
- Assuming that you have deep intrinsic value
- Taking lots of breaks
- Smiling and saying “hello” as much as possible
- Trusting and empowering other people
- Not giving a fuck about what other people think…
