The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
You never know what motivates you.
Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Who seeks shall find.
Well done is better than well said.
But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.
When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot.