The quality of your life will be determined by the depth of your commitment to excellence, no matter what your chosen field.—VINCE LOMBARDI

RESOLVE TODAY TO be the very best at what you do. Set a goal for yourself to join the top 10 percent of your field, whatever it is. This decision, to become very, very good at what you do, can be the turning point in your life. Virtually all successful people are recognized as being extremely competent in their chosen fields.

And everyone who is in the top 10 percent today started off in the bottom 10 percent. Everyone who is doing well was once doing poorly. Everyone who is at the top of his or her field was at one time in another field altogether. And what countless others have done, you can do as well.

Here is a great rule for success: Your life only gets better when you get better. And since there is no limit to how much better you can become, there is no limit to how much better you can make your life.

Here isone of the most important questions you will ever ask and answer, for the restof your career:

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellentfashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my life?

Youcannot become good at everything right away, but you can identify the one skillthat can help you the most and then throw your whole heart into developing thatskill. Set it as a goal. Write it down. Set a dead line. Make a plan. And workon becoming better in that area every single day. You will be absolutely amazedat the difference this commitment to excellence will make in your life. Thiscommitment alone can make you a self-made millionaire in the course of yourcareer.

ACTION EXERCISE

Identify your key result

areas in your current job. What are the parts of your work that you must

absolutely, positively perform in an excellent fashion to move to the top of

your field? Where are you strong and where are you weak? Make a plan today to get

better in the one skill area where improvement can help you the most.