Success: The achievement of something desire or attempted (The American Heritage Dictionary)

1. The Importance of Your Community

A good community can help you to build, sustain and thrive in your business. But communities offer so much more than business success. They provide avenues to find friends, serve others, and solicit support and encouragement. Like-minded individuals create connections and provide resources for others in their community. Having a community – that bond of connection – gives necessary sustenance to our inner being. Without community you may feel like a ship out to sea with no port to land.

2. Reveal your Passions

Connecting with and living your passion gives a sense of joy and completeness to your life. But many of us are quite busy doing things that ignore our passion, usually under the guise of "getting ahead" or "taking care of others." Many of us may be in the money trap, working to make more, more, and more. Others may be in the people pleasing business; doing what other people tell them to do and ignoring their own needs. Doing these passion-ignoring behaviors long enough saps your drive and stamina for business and life. Years of betraying your secret passion, the thing that brings you the greatest amount of joy, leads to days filled with joyless activity. Engaging with your passion allows for creative expression. New (and perhaps unexpected) things emerge and the spark for life re-ignites. If you feel passionate about how you spend the majority of your time, abundance and good health will follow.

3. Believe in Abundance

Abundance can be many things to many people. For most, money and love are at the top of the list for things they wish to have in abundance. Let’s face it. If you can’t see or feel an abundant life, you are not going to experience it. If you cannot experience it, you will not have it. To experience abundance you must be able to see and feel in the present moment. You must be able to suspend comparison and expectation and embrace what you have in the moment. When you see and feel the abundance of your life everyday, you live with gratitude. Gratitude shifts your perception to a positive light, regardless of outer appearances. The more light you can see in your life, the more light you feel. Abundance will flow to you.

4. Balanced Power

You are a leader of many things. Yet, the most important role you play as a leader is being leader of your life. Knowing your authentic personal power and how to gracefully use it is a sign of a great leader. As a powerful person, you can influence without disempowering others. You lead, you do not try to control or manipulate. As a powerful person, you have magnetic energy and attract other, like-minded individuals and you have a solid relationship with yourself that is built on self-respect, self-esteem and personal integrity. You possess an inner peace that leads to peaceful relationships with others. When you have balanced personal power, you take actions based on what is true for you, first and foremost.

5. People Come First

We are all the same, but we express our similarities and differences in countless ways.

When you truly comprehend that we all share the same fears, issues, challenges, lessons, expression and emotions, you accept yourself and others on a different level of understanding. Judgment subsides, bitterness disappears and compassion, understanding and empathy emerge. These qualities are the foundation for relationships. Regardless if relationships are personal or business, all real relationships are personal. All people really desire is connection with others. When you give yourself permission to open up from your heart with others you realize that the relationship and the person is much more important than any external sense of achievement, success, or financial reward. People come first.

6. Let the Truth Prevail

Sharing your truth is one of the most liberating acts you can engage in. But getting to the real truth can be very challenging. Living every day from your truth creates a life based on personal success. When you share the truth of your emotions, your being, your passions and your life, you take the meaning of life itself to a whole different level. You become fully congruent as a human being and you create from this place. Your voice becomes so clear that others hear your passions and resonate with your truth. You create a synchronicity and rhythm for others to engage in with you. From that place, your life propels you forward.

7. Get a Vision

What is your vision for your life or business? If you have no idea who or what you are about it might be pretty hard to feel your success. Your vision doesn’t mean you have to create something big like Donald Trump. Your vision simply must express a dream big enough to keep you passionately engaged and thrilled to be alive. Your vision gives you reason and purpose to be alive. It motivates you. It excites you and stays with you everyday. So, what’s your vision?

8. Challenge your Beliefs

Anything is possible. The biggest thing that makes a difference between people who succeed and people who do not is their level of believing what they can achieve. If you do not believe you can experience or achieve what you desire, you certainly will not. Olympic gold medallists do not achieve their goals because they do not believe in themselves and their ability. Instead, they believe to the very core of their being that they can achieve their goal. They can taste it, they can see it, they can feel it and they believe it.

9. Be Wise

Wisdom is a blend of personal experience, intelligence, the ability to understand complexities and the willingness to take action or speak from an inner sense of knowing and understanding. Learn from your mistakes, observe others, have patience, take counsel, and trust your gut feelings.

10. Celebrate!

Life is about living, not always about succeeding. Life can be defined by the quality of relationship you have with yourself and others. Success can best be defined by the quality of feeling in your inner being every day and minute of your life. If you are in a state of grace and love, celebrate your success. For this is truly a successful life. Let the wealth of your inner joy and abundance flow to others who have not yet mastered the qualities for a successful life.