4. Believe in your vision. You cannot draw it to you if you don't believe it can be done. Having faith in yourself as a creator is an important step. It may be necessary to sort through your beliefs to discover your creative patterns. A thorough examination of your thoughts and beliefs may be necessary to bring you to complete faith in yourself as a creator. As you examine your thought patterns who will begin to see how they have shaped every event in your life.

5. Adopt an attitude of gratitude.

There is no creative force more powerful than gratitude. A grateful mind can hold no doubt and a grateful heart is wide open to receive bounty of universe. Grateful people see miracles everywhere and opportunity in every apparent challenge.

6. Become intimate with your inner guidance system.

It is important to familiarize yourself with and pay attention to your inner guidance. Your inner guide uses feelings to communicate to you. Your feelings tell you whether you are aligned with your desires or not. If you are feeling good, you are in harmony with your desires. Negative feelings are telling you your thinking is aligned with fear and doubt. It is most important to pay close attention to what you are thinking when you are experiencing negative emotion. Negative feelings indicate you are creating in opposition to your desires.

7. Open your channel to receive.

The final step is to open yourself to infinite bounty of universe. We are only ever cut off from this wondrous flow by pinching off supply ourselves. The flow is ever present. The question is how wide is your tap open? Is it shut off completely or just letting in a trickle? Or perhaps it is wide open and you are reaping rewards of a conscious, happy life.

Open your eyes and your mind. If you see that a colleague is doing some great work, ask them questions. find out how they are doing things they do and why. Flatter them with your sincere interest. And learn.

Your is rarely only way, and almost never best.

Let's be really cynical here, how can you hope to be better than next person if you don't know what next person is doing?

4. Honest self assessment

This is one of hardest tools to learn, but one of most powerful. Learn to recognize your faults and your successes.

Then build on them.

For example, if you come to realize that logical thinking and organization is a failing for you, make it a priority in your life to improve. Buy some books, attend courses and address problem.

Don't do this passively, because it will not work. Instead, write yourself an action plan. Detail stages you have to go through, objectives you have set for yourself and ultimate goals. Then continually monitor problem until there is no longer a problem.

The same thing goes for your strengths. Unless you can identify them, you can't start to build on them. Be proud of them, but not complacent. Todays top skill can be tomorrows millstone.

5. Continual education.

The world is a wonderful university. There is knowledge all around just for taking. But therein lies another problem: how to absorb all information that you need to?

The problem is generally solved by a degree of selectivity. Today's executives are forced to become specialists in narrower and narrower fields.

There are many excellent courses available on speed reading, mega speed reading, photo reading and other methods. Pick one and learn to read - and absorb information faster. It will be best new skill you can acquire. Even if you 'only' double your reading and comprehending speed, imagine how much extra information that could represent!

The key point in this 'education' tool is absolute necessity to invest in yourself. Buy books and courses. Attend seminars. Learn from everyone you can.

If your company has a training program, all better. Your self assessment skill will enable you to quickly identify areas that you need to work on. Tell your boss, or your human resources people. But don't do it idly. 'I think it would be nice' is a killer. Instead, write a memo or email detailing exactly what training you would like, why you want it, and what benefit company will get from sending you. If they are serious about training staff, they will be glad of your positive input.

The world of business isn't going to change in a hurry. It is up to you to adapt yourself to this hard-edged environment or find yourself on endangered list.

If you think that you are as good as you can be - think again! You just haven't thought big enough yet.