Success and Survival Tactics For Life and Work
 | To succeed personally and professionally today, you must have a tactical survival plan for success. Consider the following as a basic format. Reflect on how these tips could be operationalized for you. |
Strive To:
| Focus Your Goals and Your Vision |
| Omit From Your Life and Work Activities/Services/Functions that You Really Hate. |
| Center Your Endeavors Around Services/Activities/Functions That You Get Real Excited About. |
| Network, Network, Network. |
| Show Up - Be There - Wherever You See The Potential For Boosting Your Life or Your Work. |
| Don’t Get Bogged Down In Minutia - It Tangles Up Your Vision. |
| Develop A Business and Life Plan - And Use It! |
| Release The Small Stuff. |
| Stay Out Of Controversy. |
| Think Out Of The Box. |
| Find Some Problem Solving Buddies - and Use Them. |
| Perfect Your Marketing Strategies. |
| Continually Evaluate What You Are Doing Right and What You Are Doing Wrong. |
| Identify Your Major Support Sources - Who Provides Your Encouragement? Challenge? Support? Love? Money?, Etc.? |
| Figure Our Who You Can Barter With Or Exchange Services. |
| Hire, Contract and/or Secure Employees, Contractees, Etc., Cautiously. |
| Build Up 3-6 Months Of Personal Use Monies to Live On In Case Something Happens To Hinder Your Ability To Work. |
| Clone Yourself Over and Over Again So That You Are Free To Birth Your Vision. |
| Employ Continual Attitude Adjustment. |
| Trust Your Instincts - They Are Usually Always Right. |
| Get Over Your Fears. |
| Believe You Can |
| Persist, Persist, Persist and Persist Some More! |
| Pray At Least Twice A Day. |
| Practice Time and Self-Management. |
| Employ Spiritual Reflection To Anchor Yourself. |
| Volunteer A Lot In The Right Places To Boost Your Vision, Feel Needed and To Foster Your Life and Work. |
| Assert Yourself - Avoid Being Passive or Aggressive. |
| Take Lots Of Mini-Vacations - Go To Wimberly or Fredericksburg, Get a Massage, Take a Half Day Off, Take a Nap, Go To Lunch With Someone You Want To Know Better, Etc., Etc. |
| Take Calculated, Well Thought Out, Risks. |
| Do Something Great For YOU Every Day. |
| Work On Your Relationships and |
| Keep Love, Warmth, and Affection In Your Life All The Time. |
©1999 Dr. Gloria Jo Floyd / NCEHS / 23640 Scenic
Loop Road, Bldg. #2 / San Antonio, TX 78255
Reprinted in Professionally Speaking, NSA - Heart of Texas Newsletter, October 1999
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