• How to Stay in First Place
  
  1. Passion: Passion gives credibility. Passion creates energy.
  
  Passion Principles:
  
  Connect your passion with your Values
  
  Connect your passion with your Giftedness
  
  Connect your passion with your Team
  
  Connect your passion with your Growth

• 2. Practices (every day drills):
  
  First Place Practices:
  
  Make Every Day Your Masterpiece
  
  Make your Attitude the Difference Maker
  
  Run like you are in second place
  
  Stay with your Strengths
  
  Strength your talent by making Right Choices
  
  Enjoy success but Learn from your losses.
  
  Set your own high standards for success.
  
  Develop the right set of Attitudes and Habits
  
  
  3. People – Teamwork
  
  Why teams are superior to individual effort:
  
  Teams involve more people, thus affording more resources, ideas and energy than would an individual.
  Teams maximize a leader’s potential and minimize his weaknesses. Strengths and weaknesses are more exposed in individuals.
  
  Teams provide multiple perspectives of how to meet a need or reach a goal, thus devising several alternatives for each situation.
  
  Teams share the credit for victories and the blame for losses.
  
  Teams keep leaders accountable for the goal.
  
  Teams can simply do more than an individual