1. Hulk Fought Giants - In Wrestlemania III, Hulk Hogan body slammed Andre the Giant.  How many of us have giants we’re facing in our own lives?  Addictions, bad relationships, horrible personal finances and dead-end careers are the giants which keep us trembling in fear far too often.  Like the Hulkster, standing toe-to-toe with such giants is hard, but the only way to free ourselves from the headaches of mediocrity.
   
2. Saying Your Prayers and Eating Your Vitamins - Hogan’s persona was pure good guy (with the exception of his strange reversion to Hollywood Hogan for a few years).  Far too often we see ourselves in complex fashion, trying to compromise our ethics to move forward.  But we’ve all felt the emptiness inside of ourselves that can only be cured with purity and good.  It’s a complex world we live in today, with wars we may not agree with and corporations we despise.  Being a good guy is the only path to truth.
   
3. Transparency and Vulnerability - Cat Stevens sang a song that basically said he wouldn’t have known love if it weren’t for pain and hurt.  Pretty much every guy Hulk Hogan befriended turned on him (Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Scott Hall) yet he was always willing to make friends.  Pursuing relationships is the richness of life, and while they will turn on us occasionally, that’s no reason to reject them.
   
4. Consistency - From 1983 through today, Hogan is Hogan.  He puts himself out there, and after decades of wrestling and public appearances (and some terrible movies) he was fans, friends and fortune.  He has his ups and downs, but he’s consistent.

1. Confidence - Granted, it’s easy for a team with such historic players as Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson and Alex Rodriguez to be confident, but even in the lean years the Yankees always acted like the first place team was simply keeping it warm for them.

2. Create History - Sometimes children who didn’t know their parents, or who didn’t want to know them, have a hard time being successful because there is no history of success. History begins now, and starting your own legacy will hold you responsible to a cause and a goal.

3. Know When to Spend Money - Whether it’s buying a stock, a new home or signing a big free agent, you have to know when it’s important to spend money and when it’s not.

4. Collect Monuments - In Yankee Stadium there are monuments of the great Yankees of the past, and that helps the new guys know what is expected of them. Keep pictures, sayings and other monuments of great people around you to keep in your memory what it takes to be successful.

5. Dress for Success - The Yankees invented pinstripes in Major League Baseball. You’ve got to invent a successful you, so ditch the sweat pants and dirty t-shirts and start to look successful. Don’t break the bank, but remember that image is vital.

1. Make a decision. Don’t sit back and wish you had a stronger belief in yourself. Make a decision to become more confident and then make life changes to back up that decision.

 2. Spend time with positive people. We all know a “Debbie Downer,” someone who has nothing positive to say about the world around him/her. People like this should be left in the dust. Get around those who see themselves as strong, bold or otherwise confident. Their attitude will rub off on you.

3. Allow for mistakes. The biggest blow to confidence is failure (obviously), but the greatest success stories are riddles with failure. Noah’s ark was only filled with seven people to go with all those animals (not a very good preacher), Abraham Lincoln was defeated in all sorts of elections before becoming president and Steven Spielberg was rejected from the USC Film School before becoming an Oscar winning director.

4. Find something your terrible at and get better. It’s easy to get better at something you love or something you care about. But, as a training ground, find a sport, hobby or activity that really is just a palate that’ll help you learn principals. When your passionate about something, it’s easy to lose focus. But, if you’re taking a cooking class just for the heck of it, you may learn that you’re impatient with carrots, which may give you insight into other areas of your life.