This blog may be a bit long, it is based on a list by Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari called Top 200 Secrets of Success In Life, Here they are:

1. Sleep less.
2. Set aside one hour every morning for personal development matters.
3. Do not allow things that matter suffer because of things that don’t.
4. Use the Rubber Band method to condition your mind to focus.
5. Always answer the phone with enthusiasm.
6. Keep a set of blank cards so you can jot down your inspirational ideas.
7. Set aside every Sunday evening for yourself.
8. The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.
9. Stay on purpose, not on outcome.
10. Laugh for five minutes in the mirror each morning.
11. Light a candle in the evening when you are reading.
12. Count your steps when you walk.
13. Learn to meditate effectively.
14. Learn to be still.
15. Enhance your will-power.
16. Be humorous throughout the day.
17. Become a highly disciplined time manager.
18. Associate with positive people.
19. Become devoted to having only a wonderful experience.
20. You must have a mission statement in life.
21. No one can hurt you without your permission.
22. Take a speed reading course.
23. Remember people’s names.
24. Be soft as a flower when it comes to kindness.
25. Only discuss your health and wealth with your family.
26. Be truthful, modest and generous.
27. Soak in a warm bath at the end of the day.
28. Learn the power of breathing.
29. Recognise the power of autosuggestion.
30. Maintain a diary.
31. Stress is merely a response which you create.
32. Read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
33. Become a committed audio-tape listener.
34. Fast one day every two weeks.
35. Listen to soft, soothing music throughout the day.
36. Read As a Man Thinketh by James Allen.
37. Remember that forgiveness is a virtue few develop.
38. Empty your Cup.
39. Practice The Two Minute Mind meditation.
40. Drink a cup of warm water before making a speech.
41. Stand firm and steadfast.
42. Act Tough, and you will be Tough.
43. Ask now what the world can do for you, but what can you do for the world.
44. Once a week, arise at dawn.
45. Remain slightly aloof.
46. Master the art of Public Speaking.
47. Seek out motivational speakers and listen to them.
48. Read Discovering Happiness by Denis Wholey.
49. Read a passage in a book, then try to recite it verbatim
50. Enter a 5km run then a 10km race.
51. Burn Orange and Clove essential oils in your burner.
52. Walk for half an hour after your evening meal.
53. Start lifting weights.
54. Never argue with the person you work for.
55. Dark Suits reflect power, wear them.
56. Send handwritten notes to your relationships, work and family.
57. Balance and moderation.
58. Drink Jasmine Tea.
59. Effective time management makes you more flexible.
60. Do not take personal development books as gospel.
61. Become an adventurer.
62. Spend Time with Nature.
63. Mens Sana in corpore Sano – In a sound body rests a sound mind.
64. Be so strong nothing interferes with your peace of mind.
65. Do not eat three hours before you sleep.
66. Be careful about your reputation.
67. Find mentors to learn and model on.
68. Make a list of all your weaknesses.
69. Never complain.
70. Overlook the weaknesses of your friends.
71. Be kind, considerate and courteous.
72. Create your image as a highly competent individual.
73. Do not reveal everything, familiarity breeds contempt is an excellent rule.
74. Learn to organise your time.
75. Keep well informed.
76. Choosing your life partner is the most critical decision you will make.
77. Never discuss your personal development activities with anyone, they are yours.
78. Schedule relaxation time in your week.
79. To truly concentrate, close your eyes.
80. Be the master of your will but a servant of your conscience.
81. Develop the habit of a daily swim.
82. Do good every day.
83. Do what you planned to do when you intended to do it.
84. Use the Bruce Lee worry visualisation exercise to dissipate worry.
85. Compartmentalise your worries.
86. Be physically relaxed and mentally engaged.
87. Yoga.
88. Prepare a detailed 5-year financial plan and follow it.
89. Readers are Leaders.
90. Read something positive before you go to bed.
91. Develop a dynamic, charismatic personality.
92. Seek out the wise and learn from them.
93. Gentleness, Frugality, Humility – Lao Tzu.
94. When you cannot make up your mind – choose the bolder.
95. Be your spouse’s number one supporter.
96. Meet with three wise people in the next two weeks, take their counsel.
97. Make each day a true masterpiece.
98. Discipline your mind or lose your energy.
99. You sow an action, you reap a habit.
100. Positive overcomes the negative.
101. A contented mind is a continual feast.
102. Make a new friend or acquaintance every day.
103. If you conquer your mind, you capture the world.
104. Stay happy not build possessions.
105. Contrary to popular belief, stress is not a bad thing.
106. Take mental vacations during the day.
107. A change is useful as a rest.
108. Study the ten fundamental of Happiness.
109. Strive to be humble and live a simple life.
110. Read A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren.
111. Read The Art of The Leader by William A. Cohen.
112. Develop that elusive quality known as charisma.
113. In work, love and life, play hard and play fair.
114. Do not talk when you are listening.
115. Be angry for a purpose, not just angry for anger’s sake.
116. Knowledge is Power.
117. All the answers to any questions are in print, Google It.
118. Get in the habit of breakfast meetings.
119. Have a swimming pool near your residence, it will not matter how busy you are.
120. Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
121. Today is yesterday’s pupil.
122. If you have a choice of two paths, take the most daring.
123. Every day, get away from the noise.
124. Focus on goals that are important.
125. Memorise beautiful poetry.
126. Keep your words soft and arguments hard.
127. This will soon pass.
128. Go the extra mile.
129. Become a committed and sincere networker.
130. When you look for something, you will find it.
131. Develop a sense of wonder about the world.
132. Do more than writing happy birthday on Facebook for your beloveds.
133. Remember to use people’s names when you talk to them.
134. Go outdoors and look up for half an hour.
135. Once every few weeks leave your phone and watch at home.
136. Laugh at work.
137. Master your life, and you master your destiny.
138. Recognise the tremendous power of opposition thinking.
139. Get deep in the habit of personal introspection.
140. The most effective alarm clock resides in your mind.
141. They say “Why”. I dream and say “Why Not”.
142. Practice meditation at the same time each day.
143. Forge and foster great friendships.
144. Purchase Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue CD.
145. Drink ten glasses of water a day.
146. Be punctual.
147. If you are busy, do not answer the phone.
148. Start your day off well.
149. Confide in your partner.
150. Push yourself a little harder and further every day.
151. Optimism.
152. Write down the seven best qualities of people you admire, tape to your bed.
153. Have your character be healthy and vigorous.
154. Consider yourself as an orange.
155. Give and Serve to Others.
156. Be an innovator at your workplace.
157. Learn to Laugh at Yourself.
158. Keep open the windows of your mind.
159. Go through one full day without saying I.
160. Spend one hour a day awake in full silence.
161. Each day, do two things you do not like doing.
162. Achieve your Goals for true happiness.
163. Remember the names of the people you meet, ask them to repeat it.
164. Indominability. Courtesy, Integrity.
165. Perform the Mental Innterupt device exercise when a negative thought arises.
166. Take time to focus on personal growth activities.
167. Read more, learn more, laugh more, and love more.
168. Improve five relationships in the next six months.
169. Remember the power of prayer.
170. Listen to The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale.
171. Utilise your phones daily organiser.
172. Browse second-hand stores for treasures.
173. Read The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol.
174. Be known as someone with a cool head.
175. Every week, spend some hours in service of others.
176. Fill your home with bright, fresh flowers.
177. Get to know and enjoy your neighbours.
178. Recognise the power of mantras.
179. When the breath is still and steady, so is the mind.
180. Use the one day to live visualisation.
181. Study evidence of high character.
182. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.
183. Chinese herbal medicine.
184. Organise your time around your real priorities.
185. Slow down your pace of life.
186. Eat only fruit and drink milk for a day.
187. Value your spouse’s laugh and keep their picture close by.
188. If married, have your partners initials carved on your ring.
189. What you put in is what you get out. Positive, not negative.
190. Do a hundred sit-ups a day.
191. Be the most honest person you know.
192. Curb your worldly desires, and you will strengthen your will.
193. If you have not laughed today, you have not lived today.
194. Read The Charisma Factor by Robert J. Richardson and S, Katharine Thayer.
195. Travel Often.
196. Each month set a physical goal for yourself.
197. Things are created twice, the mental creation and physical creation.
198. Walk to work and notice the beauty of nature.
199. Sleep less, spend less, do more. Live longer and be more magnificent.
200. Read this book over and share it with others.

What would you add to Robin’s list, what are your self-care practices for success and what does society say about success, let’s have a look at what it has to say:

1. Being focused and in action gets it done according to Trudy.

2. Remember to smell the roses along the path: Stop and Smell the Roses.

3. Nothing and Everything, both extremes can be successful.

4. Be successful in the every day and quantum success can be built in it: From Little Things, Big Things Grow.

5. Walk your unique path, you are not meant to wear another’s shoes.

6. Don’t be a usual suspect: I Bet My Life.

7. From the most famous philosopher, Ms Unknown comes this uncommon quote.

8. Don’t be fascinated by it and it will seek you out: Go Your Own Way.

9. Mistakes, make them. Call out for Help.

10. Blogger turned New York Times best-selling author and speaker Mandy Hale is the creator of the social media movement, “The Single Woman.” With a heart to inspire single women to live their best lives and to never, ever settle, Mandy cuts to the heart of the matter with her inspirational, straight-talking, witty, and often wildly humorous take on life and love: Breathe Me.

11. Seek what you love, and you will never work another day in your life.

12. Do you want it enough to do what you need to make it happen: Whenever, Wherever.

13. Turn the mind way down.

14. On and On and On and On: Life Goes On.

15. Are you for hire, how much do you charge?

For some success is dollars, for some the ideal relationship, for others having children, there is not one situation that fulfils success, find yours and seek it out with all you have to give.

Today’s playlist begins with Mac Davis, then the classic Oz duo Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody. Imagine Dragons are next, then we rock it out with Fleetwood Mac. Two pop divas follow, Sia and Shikhara. We finish with the rapper Tupac: Work While They Sleep, Learn While They Party.

I see success for humanity as being via Love and Respect for All, Everyone Included. Let’s move towards that until next time we meet, my dear friends.