1. Want things to change AND be willing to do WHATEVER you need to do to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

2. Sign up for the Daily Dose of Motivational Medicine - We all need a reminder to stay on track - what better than on a daily basis. 

3. Be truly open minded to change. If you have always done things in a certain way, then you will always get the same kind of results. So if you are open minded, you will begin to see things presented to you in a different way. And the Daily Dose of Motivational Medicine can help you to think and see things in a new light. Once you have begun to  see things in a brand new light, you will act in a different way, and you will begin to get different results. The more successes you have the more successes you will have. Conversely the opposite is also true.

4. Be better in the next 5 minutes than you were in the last 5. We can all be better in the next five minutes that we were in the last, can't we?

5. Start now - there will never be a right time. So stop waiting for a point in time that will never arrive. Don't wait for the kids to leave home, or to finish the food in the cupboards before starting that diet. Get on with your new life NOW.

6. Take one decision at a time. We make millions of decision every day. And every decision impacts on the next options you are given. The thing is you may not know all the answers when you start on a particular path - but - those answers will come - when you need them. The beauty about goal setting and goal achievement is that the more you achieve, the more you succeed, the faster those achievements will come to you.

7. Don't sit on the fence and wait for someone to push you off onto the wrong side - stop giving away your power. When someone asks you want you want to do today, do not say "I don't mind" and then hate every single minute of someone elses decisions and choices. If you can't make up your mind, don't "mind" if someone makes yours up for you.

8. Be consistent with your actions. Chip away at the problems.....if you can't take a flying leap that is....some gaps can only be made in one jump!!

9. Be persistent - do something towards your goals for 5 minutes, make one phone call, write a letter, write a chapter outline, go for a walk, do something...get out your plans, and to do lists....and do something.

10. Understand the reasons why you want something. The more reasons you have the more likely you are to succeed.  

It is very tempting to look at other people and their achievements and think that what you have done is not good enough. However, the only person you should be benchmarking yourself against is you. Whilst you can aspire for greater things and may look to others for inspiration and guidance, see what they did right and learn what they did wrong. Only you can decide whether or not you are willing to to whatever it takes to move onwards and upwards, onwards and sideways or stay where you are.

The January 18th edition of the Daily Dose of Motivational Medicine looked at this - do you define success by using other people as your benchmark. Read it here.  http://www.motivateme.info/daily-dose-ezine/2007/1/18/do-you-define-success-by-using-other-people-as-your-benchmark.html