Steps to the Top

Seven Simple Steps

To make something of yourself, pay attention to seven areas. The main one is your “attitude.” To get ahead, you must always be up, not down. If your life were a building, this would be its primary pillar. Seven pivotal areas of life are spelled out below, but attitude comes first.

“Attitude”

What happens to you, good or bad, will not define you as a person. What will define you is your attitude about your experiences. How do you develop a winning attitude? Don’t ever compare yourself to others. Not every young boy can grow up to be a great athlete. Not every young girl can be a movie star. Not every entrepreneur can be Bill Gates. Not every homemaker can cook like Julia Child. Learn to measure yourself according to your abilities and talents. Have you done your best? No one can ask more of you. Recognize that you are special. Take heart in your uniqueness.

In his youth, Mal Hancock was a great athlete, but a fall paralyzed him below the waist. While he was recuperating in the hospital, Hancock started sketching everything around him. Pretty soon he started drawing cartoons to make the nurses and doctors laugh. He sent a cartoon to a...