Your Roadmap for Success – Book 9 of 50

Its been some time since I completed reading another book. This one, Your Roadmap for Success by John Maxwell, is a great read.

Like most Maxwell’s books, this book is very detailed and provides really concrete steps, concepts and examples of the principles behind success. Here is my summary.

1. Success is a journey.
2. Success is not only a money thing.
3. If you make happiness your goal, you are almost certainly destined to fail.
4. Possesions are a temporary fix.
5. Success is knowing your purpose in life, and living it.
6. Focus on one main goal.
7. Concentrate on continual improvement.
8. Forget the past and focus on the future.
9. Where would I like to go?
10. A dream gives up dedication, gives us our potential, helps us prioritize, adds value to our work, predicts our future.
11. Be willing to give up in order to go up.
12. It takes hunger, tenacity, and commitment to see through a dream to reality.
13. There will be people who will criticize you, no matter what. Don’t let them distract you.
14. Share your dream, include others.
15. When our attitudes outdistance our abilities, even the impossible becomes possible.
16. Your attitude determines your altitude.
17. Couple a dream with the right attitude!
18. Your attitude is always a choice.
19. You can change, you can be more positive today.
20. How you think affects how you approach your success journey.
21. Associate with positive people.
22. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
23. Plan your success journey.
24. Have goals to keep you focused on improvement.
25. Articulate a statement of purpose, and have 80% of daily activities focused on this purpose.
26. Review your goals on a continual basis.
27. Never travel anywhere without a book.
28. Keep growing. Read, listen, attend seminars.
29. Be teachable.
30. Stay hungry for learning.
31. Let your learning lead to action, not knowledge.
32. Get into a growth environment.
33. Life is a one way street.
34. Face and overcome your fears. Most fears are unwarranted.
35. Fear is the price of progress.
36. Develop a burning desire to break through fear.
37. What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.
38. Feed your faith, not your fear.
39. Learn to fail forward.
40. Know the landmarks.
41. Excellence is always a choice.
42. There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going.
43. Focus on getting good at one thing.
44. Develop character.
45. Get rid of excuses.
46. Practise self discipline.
47. Stay hungry.
48. Your family makes you complete.
49. Make your home a supportive environment.
50. Take effort to communicate continually.
51. Marriages start because of love, but they finish because of commitment.
52. Be a leader that attracts other leaders.
53. Possess uncommonly positive attitudes.
54. Raise someone up with you on your journey.
55. Make people development your top priority.
56. Limit who you take along. Spend 80% of time on the top 20%.
57. Give help unconditionally.
58. Always bring something to the table.