Steps to a Fulfilled Life

Here are the steps to a fulfilled life:

Put God first in our lives. Daily prayer and Bible study gives us a foundation for a life filled with love, joy and peace. We all can aim to please God in everything we do.

Understanding ourselves by knowing our strengths and weaknesses can allow us to develop our true talents. I always ask job applicants to tell me their strengths and weaknesses. One applicant reported that they had no weaknesses. No weaknesses, really?! No weaknesses, no job.

Being Cool under pressure--grace under pressure--

comes from managing disruptive emotions by controlling our anger, pessimism and cynicism.

A dream is just a wish if we if we fail to ask ourselves the crucial questions: 1) Are my activities allowing me to fulfill my dreams?; 2) What's important now that takes me toward my dreams?; 3) Am I confusing activity with achievement? 

Motivation comes from an overwhelming ambition and the belief that we can achieve our dreams. Without ambition and without belief we will never become all that God intended for us to become.

Winning friends and influencing people is much more that a winsome smile, a warm handshake and a shoeshine. We must be interested in others and realize that all others are children of God. We can learn from everyone from the poorest pauper to the most powerful prince. All we have to do is to ask questions. 

We can try to learn what motivates each person we meet. Understanding what motivates others allows us to help them get what they want.

Understand that evil dominates the world we live in so that we can watch our steps so as not to be bitten by a serpent. 

We must persist by trying one more time. Wisdom demands that we change tactics from time to time but we should never, never, never give up in pursuing our dreams. 

We must value the usefulness of failure, the fun of challenge and the importance of hard work.