Good personal values contribute to individual life successes.  Success comes from pure intention and wishful desire.  The intention is in planning and setting goals.  Spirituality, meditation, and prayer are the energizers – wishful desires - that set all possibilities into motion.  To discover the infinite possibilities of life and living is to develop successes that contribute to all mankind.

By identifying personal values we can add substance to our life and to the lives of others.  Doing so guarantees overall success.  Good personal values that contribute to success are desire, drive, confidence, identifying priorities, setting goals, and following a plan that includes a structured timeline, checks and balances, and spiritual practices that manifest success and quality in life.

Characteristics that add value to life are:

Creating Desire

Desire is a strong emotion.  If directed on the right path, and if it is influenced by positive energy, the hunger and appetite for something desired can make anything happen.  There are two ways to channel desire, one with integrity and the other with corruption.  Integrity is something learned from the goodness of life.  To possess it is something gained.

Maintaining integrity in our thoughts and desires is learned in childhood and carried into adulthood lifestyle choices.   We exercise the choice of being honest to ourselves and to others, or we can choose to be dishonest and self- righteous.   Right desire comes from an upright character of goodness.  Discover your passion, tap into the good things that life has to offer, avoid negativity, and manipulate constructive desires.

Driven to Succeed

To get to where we want to go, we must be driven to succeed.  Through hills and dales, low valleys and high, jagged mountain edges, it is our responsibility to “drive” ourselves to our desired destinations.  If we veer off the chosen path, take wrong turns, or lose focus, we are sure to crash our vehicles (goals) and perhaps deny a successful future.

Persistence pays high dividends.  To be tenacious about your passions provides every reason in the world to press on, reaching for the “stars,” for success.  Determination and an unwavering will are characteristics of a tenacious person, driven to succeed, to win even when a situation brings difficulty.  Being steadfast as you strive to meet goals allows you to avoid procrastination.

The Power of Confidence

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”  (Ralph Waldo Emerson)  Know yourself.  Believe in yourself.  In trusting yourself, you’re able to trust others; especially those who do things that help you get ahead in life.  You are what you think; it is a choice and a decision to exercise positive thought.  You are what you believe. 

When you are confident in yourself, individual accomplishments generate greater successes.  What you put out is what you get back.  If you create a good cause, there is an after-effect.  This is a law of nature.  Take heed, fearlessness – confidence – comes from invaluable knowledge and wisdom.  Confident, uplifting mannerisms are the infectious characteristics of a virtuous person. 

Habitual Virtuosity

Virtuosity is a keen self-awareness guided by honesty and integrity.  Good personal values are life assets.  A virtuous character and good people skills carry individuals far.  Networking and getting to know others is important.  Public relations are forms of advertisement to promote desires.  Social tolerance and the ability to be non-judgmental help to bolster success. 

It is up to us to develop habits that guide desires toward positive ways and means.  Chose right choices; make right decisions; take risks; and learn from mistakes, all with a smile on your face.  Mistakes present us with opportunities to learn.  When we think positive and respond to life stimuli in a virtuous, understanding manner, we live proactively easily overcoming challenges.

Nurturing Priorities

All work and no play can make a dull, unproductive day.  It is of the utmost importance to balance work and work hours, prioritizing life, but be sure to play.   Significantly, vacations and holidays are priceless.  Travel ads an exquisite flavor to life; to see other places and experience different environments helps to regenerate and rededicate ourselves to our goals.

Work hard and then take time off to reward yourself and others who help you to meet your goals.  Family and friends are the threads that weave life together.  Bonding with others is important for developing strong, unswerving personal priorities that bring success.  Supportive friends are the rock, root, and reggae of life and are there to support and assist you.  Share your success. 

Protecting Your Environment

Maintain your environment by learning to associate with those who uplift you, love you, and support you.  Disassociate yourself from negativity generated by people, places, and/or things that bring discomfort.  Every association is an opportunity for reciprocal exchange – give and take, good or bad.  Choose associates wisely, care for family with caution, and protect your space.   

“Stinking thinking” pollutes the air; it can influence the way we think.  Negative energy sucks the life out of success.  A happy, virtuous person guards his kingdom using wisdom and knowledge.  “Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gains understanding; for her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, and her gain than find gold. “ (Proverbs)

Setting Goals

A powerful life-tool is learning how to set goals.  What’s your agenda?  To envision your future is to pave your reality.  Setting goals helps individuals focus on their efforts.  To understand your goals, is to exact your future.  Goal setting defines life and helps you to avoid costly errors.  Life is successful when accomplishments are fruitful making life’s journey worth any struggle.

What is your passion?  What do you desire?  Consider family and associates, friends and finances when setting goals.  Think about the level of lifestyle you desire, and how to attain that status.  Ponder the infinity of choices at hand to meet your goals.  Identify the things you desire, how you can obtain them, and work feverishly to meet the goals you’ve set into motion.

Planning Ahead

Second by second, minute by minute, a day at a time, plan to accomplish something toward your goals in each and every day, in everything you do, without fail.  Develop daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly schedules to keep pace.  Planning ahead is a must, to get ahead.  Stay on track; however, it is necessary to allow space for error, change, and re-scheduling/re-thinking.

Maintain your plan by functioning daily from a list of things to do.  Planning ahead takes little time and pays high dividends.  Use a timeline to make the use of your time valuable. You are then able to stay on course, focus, and listen to your own instructions and requirements for a day.  From that day will come a productive week, from that week, months and years of success. 

Practicing Spirituality

To be successful is to be spiritual.  Prayer and meditation are spiritual practices that bring peace within. If you hear (listen, learn) success, success comes.  If you speak (share, network) success, success comes.  If you see (environmental, associates’) success, success sees you.  Spirituality and the energizing thought of meditation provide ways to connect with powerful forces.

Motivating thoughts, comforting words, good deeds, sharing with others all fuel good personal values that contribute to individual successes and to the success of others.  Goodness creates positive energy.  Positive thought and affirmation spreads joy just as a sunny day brings festivity.   When there is purity in thinking and doing well, good personal values add to life’s successes. 

Live, Live and Live Again

If there is a good will, there is a right way to live. “When you discover your essential nature and know your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.”  (Deepak Chopra)

The social exchange in giving and receiving is either negative or positive, from something said or done.   If that exchange hurts you, find a cure for the pain.  The cure for negativity is avoidance.  Walk away from it as fast as you can; run!  Hear no evil, speak no evil, and see no evil.  Identify passions and live well by developing and affirming good personal values in life.