Each day, you can evaluate your behaviors and compare them against the standard that you have set for yourself and/or your company. If you internalize your own credos and believe in these words often enough, with conviction, your behaviour will change subconsciously to reflect this. A change in behavior will eventually lead you to a change in performance. And when you perform at your peak, you succeed. It doesn’t matter where you are in life, or what you do for a living, if you just modify the way you look at things, the way you think about things, you can and will achieve success.

My personal credos are in my wallet and on a fairly large poster I taped directly in front of my desk. Purposely unavoidable but nonetheless, encouraging. They are as follows:

1.  Believe in yourself.

The most important resource you will ever have is you.  You can always accomplish more.

2.  Visualize the “finish line”.

Always focus on the goal and not the road to get there.

3. Worrying is a useless emotion.

Just keep moving forward or fix it.

4. There is never an excuse.

Excuses are the exchange of the poor and money is the exchange of the wealthy. Money can not buy happiness and neither can excuses.

5. Make meaning with everything you do.

Collaborate, inspire and change what is needed to improve a life besides your own.

So now it’s your turn. What’s your credo? (Feel free to post one here, or to put it in your own blog).