Here’s a text list with these tendencies in one-to-one relationship. Green is what I’m doing right more often than not. Yellow is what I’m doing wrong more often than not.

Successful people:	Unsuccessful people:
Compliment	Criticize
Forgive others	Hold a grudge
Accept responsibility for their failures	Blame others for their failures
Keep a journal	Say they keep a journal but don’t
Want others to succeed	Secretly hope others fail
Keep a “to-be” list	Don’t know what they want to be
Set goals and develop life plans	Never set goals
Continuously learn	Think they know it all
Operate from a tranformational perspective	Operate from a transactional perspective
Keep a to-do / project list	Fly by the seat of their pants
Embrace change	Fear change
Exude joy	Exude anger
Share information and data	Hoard information and data
Talk about ideas	Talk about people
Read every day	Watch TV every day
Give other people credit for their victories	Take all the credit of their victories
Have a sense of gratitude	Have a sense of entitlement

Successful people keep a journal. Time I resumed the practice. I’ve been keeping a journal on paper, but that’s fallen behind. It’s really the act of journalling over the existence of a journal itself that’s valuable to a person’s development.

Not all my entries will be public view. I’ll continue to work in a paper journal sometimes, especially when artifacts are involved, like movie tickets and photos. But this blog will do for now.

Apropos nothing, here’s a list of CSS color names, which I needed for coloring in the above list.