Four steps that I consider fundamental to
designing, creating and living your own World Class Life:
1. Clarity about the life you want. It's often said that
most people spend more time planning a party than they do
planning their life. How, exactly, do you want to live?
What do you want more of? What do you want less of? What
are your values and priorities, your loves and your
annoyances? Be clear. Write it down. Design the life you
want with clarity and precision. Then go after it with
power and purpose.
2. Maintain extremely high standards. This means keeping
your house clean, paying your bills, taking care of your
health, getting enough sleep, keeping a reasonable
schedule, doing your work, treating other people well and
insisting that they treat you as you wish to be treated.
The quality of your life is in the details. Set very high
standards.
3. Acquire the skills you need. A World Class Life
requires tools and skills, it requires know-how and
courage. Successful parenting requires as much knowledge,
skill, wisdom and patience as success at work or in your
favorite hobby. A World Class Life requires that you meet
the demands of life with elegance, style, confidence and
grace. Learn what you need to know. Study. Get a coach or
mentor, take classes, attend the workshops. This is your
life. Get good at it!
4. Persistent Self-Discipline. A World Class Life asks a
great deal of us. It demands that we get up and get
started. It demands that you do the things most people
avoid, that you pay attention, that you show up, that you
go the "extra mile." A World Class Life has lots of time,
space and energy for play, but when work or diligence are
called for, winners do the right things, in the right way,
in a timely manner. Practice self-discipline. There is no
other way.
