Goals

Make goals high enough that you cannot reach them on your own. If you only make goals you know you can reach, you'll feel no need to look heavenward for help beyond your own.

Efficiency

Your spontaneous efforts for efficiency will often cause those around you to feel put out.

Efficiency usually cuts corners, so be sure you create alternate routes. Otherwise others you value will be caught off guard with unexpected "road closed" signs.

An Idealistic Realist

I'm not a realist. I'm an idealist, sufficiently experienced in reality.

This means that I always see the glass as half full, while understanding that sometimes the glass is filled with dirty water.

Even then, a realist would complain about the color of the water and slacken his efforts while an idealistic realist would be grateful for the water, recognize the contamination, and then become engaged in effort to filter and improve the water with a vision and faith that it can, and will be through his efforts, pure again.

Organization

Organization is often made up of 90% strategic procrastination.

Persuasion

The most persuasive evidence you can ever present is what you truly believe. If you don't believe it, people will know it, and won't buy it.