1. Serve the wants and needs of others.
2. Create happiness for others and yourself.
3. Practice servant leadership*.
4. Fulfill your needs and wants by helping others fulfill their own needs and wants.
5. Participate only in Win-Win transactions.
6. Focus all of your thoughts, words, emotions and actions on contributing to your personal success and the success of others.

*The term servant leadership was coined and defined by Robert Greenleaf, in his classic essay, The Servant as Leader, described the servant-leader in this manner:

The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.

The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?

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