Lessons for Running a Successful Business

1. Satisfy your customers
2. Motivate your people
3. Work hard.
4. Behave consistently
5. Prepare for the future
6. Control costs

Devote yourself to it 100 per cent and be prepared to take a few hits along the way. Take risks, but make sure to have the worst case outcomes covered.

Don't dwell on regret or failures, but adapt quickly to changes and move on to more positive things. Don't criticise others, but ask people for advice.

It is also handy to have a customer before you start a business.

Be

I will build myself into the person I want to be (re: Goals). The joy is in the process/journey (re: The Journey is the Success).

I will be true to who I am (re: Who I Am). This is my core reason for existence.

I have let myself down in the past year (not enjoying work and letting work and circumstance affect me). I have to take responsibility. Every second not living the way I want is a second wasted (life is short).