When you create a vision of what you truly want, your actions will automatically propel you closer to your perfect world this week.

Today's TQ Challenge: Create Highly Compelling Dreams. Visualize. Clarify. Evaluate. Commit.

1. Choose to be INSPIRED! If you could have anything right this second, what would it be?

2. Choose to be MOTIVATED! If the good fairy was here right now, and you had 30 seconds, could you tell her your three wishes?

3. Choose to be ENTHUSIASTIC! More than anything, what vision do you want to accomplish next?

A vision is a picture of the perfect future you want to create. The more compelling and desirable the vision, the greater will be your enthusiasm and motivation for achieving it. Visions connected to core personal values generate the greatest source of power, passion and purpose. Go after all that life has to offer by creating the most valuable, ideal, desirable and admirable vision possible for each area of your life.

"If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, "there goes another day of my life, never to return," you will become time conscious." ~ A. B. Zu Tavern

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Without personal values, material goals are merely empty castles.

Today's TQ Challenge: Keep Goals Aligned with Core Personal Values.

1. Choose to be DETERMINED! Which of your recent achievements correspond to your values, vision and mission?

2. Choose to be PURPOSEFUL! What were you doing the last time you felt really satisfied and fulfilled?

3. Choose to be PASSIONATE! Which of your next tasks would give you the most pride of accomplishment?

Your most powerful and inspiring goals are those that are directly aligned with what you value most. Goals that are aligned with your life's mission are those that bring an ideal personal vision closer to reality. Mission based goals will deliver the greatest sense of pride and satisfaction once accomplished. You can only do so much in the time you have. Therefore, as you establish your goals, put them to the test: How connected are they to what you value most? If they're not -- change them or choose more "value-able" goals.

"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality." ~ Ralph Marston

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Your mission statement keeps you on course. Check in before you blast off to the next item on your schedule.

Today's TQ Challenge: Stay Connected to Your Mission.

1. Choose to be SELF-GOVERNED! Is your present task connected to your mission? How?

2. Choose to be DECISIVE! Do you always develop your daily schedule using your mission statement?

3. Choose to be PURPOSEFUL! Can you connect every activity on today's agenda to your mission?

In the trials and chaos of modern life, you need a set of standards to help guide you through the good times and the bad. The highest and most beneficial set of rules is the one you establish for the preferred way that you want to live. Once you have a list of your most important values, commit to a personal mission statement that declares how you will live what you value. The most basic mission statement is simply this: "I will live a life of... (insert your list of values here)... every day of my life."

"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams." ~ Simone Weil

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You can't live up to your goals while stooping for solutions.

Today's TQ Challenge: Do More of What You Love.

1. Choose to be PASSIONATE! How is your current task aligned with your values?

2. Choose to be DEDICATED! Can you remember a time when your success was limited because you compromised your values?

3. Choose to be DEVOTED! How will you ensure that you'll be proud to sign your name to everything you do today?

When you are working toward an ideal that comes from the heart, you are naturally motivated and driven to do your best. A thoughtfully created, highly desirable personal mission is guaranteed to make you highly focused, powerful and productive. Act from your deepest values, and they will provide you with direction and satisfaction. Connect and recommit to your mission everyday. If you don't, you're trading the only life you have for things that simply don't matter.

"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway." ~ Bob Beamon

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Sometimes the best ideas come unannounced -- be prepared, recorder in hand!

Today's TQ Challenge: Seek to Double Results -- Ask "What Else Now?"

1. Choose to be PRODUCTIVE! How much time do you spend traveling daily?

2. Choose to be EFFICIENT! Can you talk, think and drive at the same time?

3. Choose to be PROLIFIC! Don't try to edit as you're dictating. Get the outline of the writing down on tape, and you can edit and amend later.

You don't have to double your speed to double your productivity. Instead, you can increase your results by combining complimentary tasks, projects or roles. Plan ahead and look for ways to maximize your time. Before you proceed, see if there is anything else you could be doing simultaneously. When you find a way to do two things in the same block of time you achieve twice the results -- with little additional effort.

"Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal." ~ Don Shula

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Focus this week on keeping all your promises to others.

Today's TQ Challenge: Make it Easy for Others to Help.

1. Choose to be THOUGHTFUL! Is there a climate of trust in your work environment?

2. Choose to be CONSIDERATE! Do the others you work with have trust in you?

3. Choose to be APPRECIATIVE! What's one thing you can do today to strengthen your trust with your co-workers?

It's your responsibility to make it as easy -- and as fun as possible -- for others to help you. When you do, more people will show up, and once they arrive, will provide greater assistance than if you make it difficult. First, be clear what needs to be done. Articulate your requests with the greatest detail possible. Then, identify and eliminate any barriers that may prevent others from doing their level best to help you.

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." ~ Arthur Ashe

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That is more than enough time to get a global perspective on what's going on, process what is being said, and form an opinion.

Think about this.

There are only 1,440 minutes in a day (24 hours x 60 minutes).

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If you do the best you can, given the circumstances in which you find yourself, what more is there?

Better.

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This is a major driver of success, both personally and professionally. It is not hard to focus, if you know what's important to you, and what's not.

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As those of you who have read The Power of TQ know, my definition of success is simply this: "The peace of mind that comes from knowing you have done your very best."

As General Patton says, if you do your best, what more is there?

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If you are not GETTING what you want out of life, maybe you're not GIVING enough to it.

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