oooThe three most important steps, discovered and rediscovered by virtually every successful person, are these:
ooo1. Decide exactly what you want, write it down, and make a plan to achieve it. Decide upon your destination.
ooo2. Take action. Launch toward your goal. Step out in faith. Take the first step with no guarantee of success. Take off on your journey.
ooo3. Be prepared to make continual course corrections every hour and every day of your life as you fly toward your destination. Expect an inevitable, unavoidable, and unbroken series of problems, difficulties, reversals, setbacks, and crisis every day and week of your life. Since you cannot avoid them, your aim must be to respond to them effectively.
oooMake a decision right now to set your goal, take off, and make continual course corrections until you achieve all that is possible for you.
Taken from Flight Plan by Brian Tracy