Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing.

—VINCE LOMBARDI

“Life is a process of two steps forward and one step back.”

Develop a long-time perspective. Take the long view in everything you do. Plan two,three, four, and five years into the future and don’t allow yourself to get onto an emotional roller coaster with the short-term ups and downs of daily life. Be calm, confident, and relaxed with short-term fluctuations in your fortune.When you have clear goals and plans that you are working on every day, the general trend line of your life will tend to be onward and upward over the years.

ACTION EXERCISE

Identify the key cycles and trends in your business. Where isthe market going? What is changing and how will you have to adapt to thesechanges? What steps should you be taking today to be ready to take advantage ofthe new world of tomorrow? Whatever your answer, take those steps now!