- Never be satisfied or content with your current position
- Be single-minded, focused and determined
- Don’t look back or fixate on past failures
- Go forward, act
- Press on, have persistence
- Be motivated from above; not by trivial things like money, status or popularity
- Adopt the mindset of a pacesetter; don’t settle for the status quo
- Draw inspiration from positive role models; hang out with inspirational people that are better than you, who you can learn from
- Stay away from bad crowds, bad friends
- Keep your eyes on the prize
They are from the second half (or something like that) of a talk by Samuel Pipim. He pulls them from Philippians 3:12-21 and gives some examples and explanation to each of them in his talk. If you are curious and would like to hear the whole thing, go ahead 🙂