MOTIVATION MONDAY: Dave Kekich

For the next few weeks I am going to focus on Dave Kekich and his 100 time-tested tips, secrets, and strategies to becoming wealthy beyond your wildest dreams both personally and financially, known as Kekich's Credos.

Each week I am going to post seven of Kekich's Credos, one for each day of the week, and each day I am going to apply them to my own life and give you a summary of how I went the following Monday. You are welcome to do this with me and let me know how you are going by posting comments at the bottom on each post.

Some background on David Kekich

Twenty years ago, Dave was a health and fitness buff. He worked out, did long-distance running and ate a low-fat diet. While working out one day, he felt a stab of excruciating pain and was rushed to the hospital. By the next day he was paralyzed from the chest down, the result of a hematoma in his spinal canal and has been confined to a wheelchair ever since. After a long stint in a rehab center, Dave embarked on a 15 month overseas odyssey to find a cure for his paralysis.

He returned home out of shape, emaciated, with dysentery, and morbidly depressed. A routine survey, sent to him by a newsletter that he subscribed to at the time, helped him renew his commitment to fitness, and life. Instead of falling into a deep depression over the news, Dave decided to accept the cards he was dealt, and make the most of his unfortunate circumstances.

He became an extremely successful venture capitalist, has hundreds of friends and admirers from all over the world, and has published the "Kekich Credo".

Kekich's Credos
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1. Strive to increase order and discipline in your life. Discipline usually means doing the opposite of what you feel like doing. People will do almost anything to stay in their comfort zones. If you want to accomplish
 anything, get out of your comfort zone by replacing your bad habits, one-by-one, over time, with good habits. Focusing on habits is the easy road to discipline.



2. Cherish time, your most valuable resource. You can never make up the time you lose. It's the most important value for any productive happy individual and is the only limitation to all accomplishment. To waste time is to waste your life. Use your time effectively.



3. Think carefully before making any offers, commitments or promises, no matter how seemingly trivial. These are all contracts and must be honored. These also include self-resolutions.



4. Real regrets only come from not doing your best. All else is out of your control. You're measured by results only. Trade excuses for results, and expect half-hearted results from half-hearted efforts. Do more than is expected of you. Be willing to pay the price. Life's easy when you live it the hard way...and hard if you try to live it the easy way.



5. Always show gratitude when earned, monetarily when possible.



6. Produce for wealth creation and accumulation. Invest profits for wealth preservation and growth. Produce more than you consume, and save a minimum of 20% of all earnings. Pay yourself first.



7. Cut all ties with dishonest, negative or lazy people, and associate with people who share your values.