Wherever you are in your quest for creating the career (and life) you want, you must stay positive to stay afloat.  Fall in love with yourself. What you believe to be yourself, you are.

Trust yourself. You will remember  your lines, you will perform well, you will do a good job. You must believe that.

It is not called self – esteem for nothing. You, and you alone, are in charge of your thoughts. This is one area where you are the boss. Positive people have positive thoughts and prosperous people have prosperous thoughts. It is really that simple.

Full esteem ahead. It does take time to undo the negative thoughts you have had all your life. But the past is the past, and all you can concern yourself with is the present. From th is time forward, make an effort to see yourself as successful. Speak kindly to yourself.

Get out of your own way.  Learn to allow yourself to make a mistake without becoming defensive and unforgiving.

Don’t be a junkie. Being a natural born risk taker, you may be the one putting yourself in peril. The life on the edge, fly by the seat of your pants approach works only until you OD on anxiety and pressure. Give yourself some time to ‘dry out’ and kick back between big projects.

Right brain, wrong problem.  The right brainer loves to grapple with problems, and sometimes sees things that need to be better when good enough is good enough. You don’t have to save the world. You’re the only one who wants or expects it to be perfect. Know your limits.

Self employ your self esteem. If you decide to go the route of the self employed, there will be constant challenges and you will have to deal with occupational hazards like setbacks, rejections and mistakes. This is the trade off to being in business with yourself. The secret is in how you deal with these challenges – and learning to love dealing with them.

Your time will come. Everybody has their share of tough times. The ones you see who are getting ahead have put the past behind them and are creating a better future. Instead of wallowing in self pity they say pity the fool who tries to stop me from getting what I want. You look around and see others (far less talented) with juicier jobs, fatter paychecks, better connections, bigger deals and  choice gigs and you say, how did that happen? Hang in there, your time will come.

No matter where you are, there will always be people with more than you, and others with less. That is not important. Real success is inside you. Appreciate where you are.