4. Aim for a job in which you can become 110% committed. If you aren’t able to commit 110% to what you are currently doing, start NOW to find something in which you can.

5. Invest five percent of your time, energy, and money into furthering your career. Dedicate yourself to getting ahead by keeping ahead, and you do that be controlling the one thing you can control: your dedication to being the best that you can be.

6. Be willing to change and adapt. Goals aren’t useful, but rather that they should emerge naturally from these other factors and, even though you may write them down and paste them on your mirror, they should not obscure the need to be willing to change and adapt to new conditions, your own growth, and developing opportunities.