I'd intended to introduce a really exciting idea today. Maybe I will, since it's now Monday. Will you forgive me for missing my deadline for 10 in '10 posts every day by an hour? I'll make it up to you, I promise. I just lost track of time watching Daniel Craig striding out of the sea, dripping wet. He says hi, by the way.

Anyway, about that idea. After I've lavished love on my 2010 manifesto, my next set of New Year Revolutions will revolve around Dave writing a novel. It's something I should do since I'm the only surviving descendant of William Makepeace Thackeray, who was almost as scribbly as me, it would seem.

So I was planning on presenting a platter of 10 delicious introductions to my 2011 tome. But Mr Craig was sufficiently tantalising to distract me from the job in hand. So to speak. It will happen, I promise thee - but it'll be later, rather than sooner.

Right now I need to teach you how to be a superhero.

It's pretty easy. You need no fear of Kryptonite, nor do you have to eat Bella Emberg's bodyweight in spinach.

But here's what you do have to do:

1. Share the load. Batman wouldn't have stood a chance without his man slave, Michael Caine (c'mon, it WAS him. Or an actor playing him, whatever...); Charlie would have been Jack without his Angels. So what I'm saying is to be the best you can be - and better - you have to delegate and discuss. Work as a team. The only exception I can think of is if you yearn to be RoboCop, in which case you're weird and need certifying.

2. Make a promise. If there's one way to genuinely guarantee excellence in anything you do, it's to make not a pact with yourself, but to pledge to a friend you'll hit the target. No stronger force in life than mateship - and if you tell them what you're gonna do, you can bet you're gonna do it.

3. Think Coke. It's awesome to plan but the only way you're going to be a real superstar is to start right away. No point holding out for a hero - you're it. So whatever it is you want to achieve, start working on it today. You'll get there sooner than you ever imagined and that wreath of leaves is going to feel so smooth against your lustrous skin.

4. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. If only I'd known this years ago. The only way you're gonna be good at anything, from baking bread to kicking hedgehogs, is through repetition. Someone said you can only call yourself a master once you've done something for 10,000 hours. While that clearly is bollocks, you do need to put the hours in to get the good stuff out the other end. There's no way I would have scored 5 stars at Creep by Radiohead on Rock Band if I hadn't stood goggle-eyed before the font of Playstation 3 for about a week. Sure it was only on easy, but I felt moved. Thomas Edison reputedly tried to make a lightbulb 999 times before having his own lightbulb moment. That's even more impressive.

5. Create a USP and stick to it. It's not just brands that need to find niches, it's people. To ride the hockey stick curve to success you need to find what works for you and focus on it day in, day out. It's the hardest thing in the world and I struggle at this one, still. But say you're eminently talented at playing guitar, for real, then why not teach people. Or write about it. Or get out there and play the damned axe in front of thousands of adoring fans. Alternatively if you're only relatively talented like my good self, you could run around in circles for years decrying the benefits of being a Jack of all trades. And only occasionally attaining genius at anything.

6. Love people. It cost you how much to smile? You couldn't have got ham, egg and chips at Wetherspoons for that! Befriending, adoring, commiserating, caressing, complimenting, caring - any one of these things will make you a superhero to someone. Every day make sure you give more than you get. Karma will make sure the balance is restored when it's you that needs a helping hand or a hug.

7. Give gratitude. The easiest way to feel a million dollars? Jump out of bed and punch the sky. The sky may not be in the best of shape but the cheeriest way to start your day is to cherish every second you're alive. We're all mortals here, unless you know otherwise, so take a few minutes to thank your life force for giving you another chance to shine today. Best of all you can do it while you're having a shower or poo - so you don't need to miss a minute of the aerobics on Sky.

8. Invent something. Now I may have put you off here. I'm not asking for you to be the next James Dyson or Simon Woodroffe. When I say invent I merely mean coin an idea you haven't had before. Find your inspiration literally anywhere: in the paper, on TV, on the pavement, even from one of those dull newsletters from the Chamber of Commerce. Amazing is omnipotent. Open your eyes, tune up your ears and you'll have ideas pouring from your pores before you can say Stephen Hawking for PM!

9. Be a dreamer and a doer. "If you love what you do, you'll never do a day's work in your life." That's what I had sellotaped to my monitor frame as a wage slave. It didn't help make the job be any less miserable but I got a great deal of pleasure from the maxim winding up my fellow drones. But seriously, if you have big ideas and you at least test them out, you'll evolve from the (wo)man working for The Man to your own entrepreneur, manager and technician. Then you can screw the job and be a self-employed superhero.

10. Be the firstest and the mostest. To be a business superhero you have to be ready to pounce on an idea as soon as you have it. And do everything it takes to have the advantage over your future competitors who will be looking for a slice of the market you created.

Ready to make a difference to your world. Grab the bull by the horns. Or as I used to say at McDonalds, "just cut off its horns and wipe its arse." Which was odd form, considering I was a vegetarian.