1. What are the ten most important things one must do to achieve success and happiness?

2. What important lessons you have learned from your long experience?

The answers to these questions would vary from person to person depending upon such factors as age, sex, education, environments, and marital status as well as the field of expertise or skills. By sharing our experiences or views we can learn many things and avoid pitfalls and  wasted efforts. 

You are welcome to post on my blog your views or answers for any one or both the questions given above. 
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THE SEVEN C's OF SUCCESS by Brian Tracy

"After having studied top achievers and peak performers over the past 25 years, I've concluded that these unique men and women, have in most cases, mastered what I call the Seven C's of Success.

1. Clarity - Eighty percent of success comes from being clear on who you are, what you believe in and what you want.

2. Competence - You can't climb to the next rung on the ladder until you are excellent at what you do now.

3. Constraints - Eighty percent of all obstacles to success come from within. Find out what is constraining you or your company and deal with it.

4. Concentration - The ability to focus on one thing single-mindedly and see it through until it's done takes character and determination.

6. Courage - Most in demand and least in supply, courage is the willingness to do the things you know are right.

7. Continuous learning - Read, at the very least, one book a week on business to keep you miles ahead of the competition. And just as you eat and bathe, organize your time so you spend 30 minutes a day exploring e-mail, sending messages, going through websites, because like exercise, it's the only way you can keep on top of
technology. If you get away from it, you'll lose your edge."

9. Remember what Dwight D. Eisenhower had said:  "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. And also what Nido Quben says:
."The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now.  To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have."

10. "I also give great importance to accepting the responsibility and challenge and what Julie Plenty  say: "Stop judging yourself and other people in your life for what has happened to you in the past.  Playing the Blame Game serves no one, least of all yourself.  People did what they thought was best at the time, the same way you did.  Learn
to forgive yourself and others for past mistakes. Harboring old grudges takes up a lot of time and energy you could be using in more productive ways."

"Learn how to reconcile, resolve and accept what has happened in the past and know that it has made you a much stronger person.  Acknowledge your fears and find out what's really behind them.  Many of your fears are likely to be groundless, but it is the thinking, attitudes and beliefs that cause much of the inappropriate fear.  Fear is often a
disguise for your lack of belief in yourself and your judgments." 
_ Julie Plenty 

11. "The best way to start building your self esteem and confidence is to commit to making changes.  Even if you use just one of the examples listed above, it will begin to make a difference to your level of self esteem.  Know that you are valued, regardless of what has happened before." _Julie Plenty, Personal and Business Coach http://www.kick-start-your-self-esteem.com

Success
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction." 
Betty Anderson Stanley. reprinted by the syndicated advice columnist Ann Landers, March 11, 1995.

13. CARROTS WORK BETTER THAN STICKS
"Finally, my favorite tactic. Reward yourself for getting the job done. Nothing motivates me more to finish a set project that the knowledge that when I do, I have full permission to curl up on the couch with a good book for a couple of hours." _Elena Fawkner

14." Give yourself an incentive to get whatever it is done.  Then you can truly enjoy the best of both worlds. You can relax and enjoy whatever your reward is, free of the guilt that comes with knowing very well you should be doing something else, and with the certain knowledge that you've taken care of business first"._ Elena Fawkner

15.Many people suffer from the obsession for Perfectionism.
This obsession is cured when we understand that the perceptions 
for perfection and excellence differ from people to people. And we attain  excellence in performance when the people for whom we do the job are fully satisfied and happy with our work even when we feel that despite our best efforts we have not achieved absolute perfection. Remember that only God Almighty can achieve absolute perfection. Often when we feel that we have done a perfect job, there would be some who would criticize it.

Please see Part 2 for many other great tips, culled from various sources after research and study.

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"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active—not more happy—nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–45), U.S. poet,

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Treat Health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The psychologists can help us to improve our abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and others, to persist in the face of frustrations; to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.