Your top 10 to-do list to improve your professional life

1. Seek new opportunities. Discover how you can be more involved with the things you love to do for others. It will be your key differentiator and make daily life more meaningful.
   
2. Go green: at home, at work. Then tell as many people as you can about how you've turned to more sustainable energy sources, recycled, and conserved. Seek out green vendors and green buildings. Make it your corporate culture.
   
3. When you see a problem in the world, something inefficient and clunky and done simply because it's always been done that way, ask yourself, "How could this be improved? Is there an opportunity here?"
   
4. Identify your passions. Really dig. Then channel your resources and stick to your mission.
   Be transparent.
   
5. Toss the corporate hyperbole and be open with your employees, your consumers and your vendors about your vision, the obstacles and plans for the future. They will be more likely to help you reach your goals.
   
6. Build an ecosystem that empowers and educates the people around you
   
7. Think globally. No matter how small your business, you are not limited to local talent, resources or consumers.
   
8. Turn philanthropic. A philanthropic culture creates a positive environment both at the office and within you.
   
9. Consider the whole life cycle of your product or service. What's missing? How could it be better for the environment or community?
   
10. Keep it super simple. Whatever it is