by Michel R. Baylor

Created on: February 07, 2011   Last Updated: February 08, 2011

Good personal values contribute to individual life successes.  Success comes from pure intention and wishful desire.  The intention is in planning and setting goals.  Spirituality, meditation, and prayer are the energizers – wishful desires - that set all possibilities into motion.  To discover the infinite possibilities of life and living is to develop successes that contribute to all mankind.

By identifying personal values we can add substance to our life and to the lives of others.  Doing so guarantees overall success.  Good personal values that contribute to success are desire, drive, confidence, identifying priorities, setting goals, and following a plan that includes a structured timeline, checks and balances, and spiritual practices that manifest success and quality in life.

Characteristics that add value to life are:

Creating Desire

Desire is a strong emotion.  If directed on the right path, and if it is influenced by positive energy, the hunger and appetite for something desired can make anything happen.  There are two ways to channel desire, one with integrity and the other with corruption.  Integrity is something learned from the goodness of life.  To possess it is something gained.

Maintaining integrity in our thoughts and desires is learned in childhood and carried into adulthood lifestyle choices.   We exercise the choice of being honest to ourselves and to others, or we can choose to be dishonest and self- righteous.   Right desire comes from an upright character of goodness.  Discover your passion, tap into the good things that life has to offer, avoid negativity, and manipulate constructive desires.

Driven to Succeed

To get to where we want to go, we must be driven to succeed.  Through hills and dales, low valleys and high, jagged mountain edges, it is our responsibility to “drive” ourselves to our desired destinations.  If we veer off the chosen path, take wrong turns, or lose focus, we are sure to crash our vehicles (goals) and perhaps deny a successful future.

Persistence pays high dividends.  To be tenacious about your passions provides every reason in the world to press on, reaching for the “stars,” for success.  Determination and an unwavering will are characteristics of a tenacious person, driven to succeed, to win even when a situation brings difficulty.  Being steadfast as you strive to meet goals allows

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