- Build and maintain a positive circle of influence
- Surround yourself with positive and beneficial advisors, mentors and friends
- Define and inhabit work, home and leisure environments to thrive personally and professionally
- Seek advice from quality voices of influence and avoid pessimistic and negative ones
- Nurture a positive relationship with yourself; work harder on yourself than anything else
- Include “silent” mentors in your personal and professional development (books, audiobooks, seminars, on-line courses/programs, thought leaders, etc.)
- Learn how to collaborate across disciplines; be open to new, even uncomfortable viewpoints
- Remember 4 keywords for success achievement: “Let’s do it together”
- Forge beneficial and reciprocal relationships
- Be a person of influence; seek first to understand, and then to be understood
- Offer to help as you ask for the assistance of others; givers do gain
- Create mutually beneficial relationships in your community, industry, and profession
- Broaden the scope of your impact by establishing relationships outside your current sphere
- Stretch, and forge relationships that seem “out-of-reach”
- Recognize when relationships are no longer mutually beneficial and take appropriate and dignified measures to disassociate or partially disassociate