Here are Hunt’s Top Ten Suggestions for Success:

1.      Address Values:  take time each week to think about what you are really trying to accomplish. What are your goals in relationship to your values across important arenas of life: family, work, health, recreation and love.  What really are you trying to do with your life.  What matters most should muster first.   Does your list fit your values?
2.      Set Priorities:      of the things you might do, what are those that if you do, will have the most impact?  Since you may not get to everything, what can you delegate, delay, or deny.  Considering these 3 Ds, what do You really need to Do.  Start with the top priorities first.  
3.       Create Sequences;   create a sense of flow, a series of sequences that work for you.  Do first things first, but don’t do all the hardest things at once.  Change pace.  Take brakes.  Go to the park, walk the dog, call your wife, write a brief thank you note. Stand, stretch, and get back to work.
4.      Follow Systems:  much of the art of success is to have and utilize successful systems.  Do routine things in routine ways.  If you are writing a book, follow a routine every day to add to the book.  The hardest things to do are frequently the things we do for ourselves – the tasks when we are not accountable to someone else, someone outside of ourselves.
5.       Organize Space: while some clutter is inevitable, excess cluster is dysfunctional.  Don’t let things pile up.  Decide as much as possible what to throw away. Have a staging process for preliminary organizing and categorizing things or papers you need to save. Use label makers to have clear readable labels. Color code categories for filing.  Use the color code at all levels of folders, hanging folders, and file labels.
6.      Work to Completion:  don’t start a lot and finish a few.  Better to work to completion on a few important tasks than start many and finish few.  Continue until it gets out the door: the result is mailed, filed, send, finished.
7.      Control for Quality:  revisit your work at two levels,  one for quality the other for details.  The first  review is to be sure you have addressed the issue of the problem and that that the sequence makes sense.  Did you say what needed to be said?  Did you address the actual problem? often ADD individuals say something – or answer something on the test – but they did not truly answer the question.  They were relevant, but not specific, approximate, but not accurate.  They got distracted before they got, or got  to the point.
8.      Check for Details:   Did you built the answer coherently, based on a logical sequence of arguments, facts and presentation.  in writing, do this answer address the actual question or problem?  The review, how is the sentence structure, grammar, agreement of subjects and verbs, as well the overall flow or sequence of comments.  You don’t want to leave sentences ……. Sorry, I forgot where I was going with this one.    
9.       Maintain Energy; Exercise; Pace Yourself:  to get energy you’ve got to give it. Couch potatoes don’t grow wings.  Get up, get going, sweat.  It is essential for attention that you energize the body.  This is not just about gently walking the dog, or popping your head outside. This is about sweat and effort, pushing limits pushing weights.  Nothing less hold up.  Attention in the mind requires vigor in body.   Part of pacing yourself is changing pace.  Shift activities and shift focus in order to stay engaged.  But remember to return and finish the task.  Take a nap, meditate, run some laps, then come back to work.  Don’t cram.  We all have to make added effort for some deadlines, but cramming usually doesn’t work well after high school, or in a competitive college.  Review yes, but if you’re reading the material for the first time the night before the exam, you’re not a serious student. Its not your attention that is failing, its your organization and discipline.  Change your habits or start lifting weights. Your not likely to make a living using your mind.
10.   Take Pride and Joy in Accomplishment:  there’s a lot to celebrate about doing well.   Drink it in, enjoy it. Take time to take pride. Let yourself enjoy your achievement.  Not in a sprit of arrogance, but with a sense of delight. You deserve it. Do it.  You did it!