Walker Way
1. Respect yourself and others: Work hard and self-respect will follow. You get out of it what you put in. Self-respect does not exist unless you have respect for others. No one succeeds all by herself.
2. Take Full Responsibility: There are no shortcuts to success. Being responsible sometimes means making tough, unpopular decisions. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the BIG chair. If you don’t fulfill your responsibilities, you will be held accountable-no one else.
3. Develop and Demonstrate Loyalty: Surround yourself with people who are better than you are. Value peers who tell you the truth, not just what you want to hear.
4. Learn to be a great communicator: It will eliminate mistakes. Listening is crucial. Make good eye contact. Always introduce yourself and be respectful.
5. Discipline yourself so no one else has to: This will help you believe in yourself. It will produce a unified effort toward a common goal. When disciplining others, be fair, be firm, and be consistent. This will help you finish a job and finishing separates excellent work from average work.
6. Make hard work your passion: Do the things that aren’t fun first and do them well. Think big, work small. Plan your work and work your plan. See yourself as self-employed.
7. Don’t just work hard, work smart: Know your strengths, weaknesses, and needs. Be flexible.
8. Put the team before yourself: Teamwork must be taught. It allows common people to obtain uncommon results. There is individual success in group success.
9. Make winning an attitude: Combine practice with belief. Attitude is a choice. Maintain a positive outlook. No one ever got anywhere being negative. Confidence is what happens when you’ve done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.
10. Be a competitor: Competition is not social. It separates achievers from the average. You can’t always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive.
11. Change is a must: It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts the most. Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. Take risks. You can’t steal second base with your foot on first.
12. Handle Success Like you Handle Failure: You can’t always control what happens, but you can control how you handle it. Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine. It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.
13. No negatives allowed! Stop saying “I don’t know” “I can’t” or “I don’t want to.” Always try!
