be proud but not arrogant. It takes pride to build your ambitions. It takes pride in your community. It takes pride in a cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is to be proud without being arrogant.
develop humor without folly. In leadership, we learn that it's okay to be witty but not silly; fun but not foolish.
Deal in truth. Save yourself the agony of delusion. Just accept life as it is. Life is unique. The whole drama of life is unique. It's fascinating. Life is unique. Leadership is unique. The skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another. However, the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.
Thankfulness is just the beginning, you've got to challenge yourself to produce. Produce more ideas than you need for yourself so you can share and give your ideas away. That is called fruitfulness and abundance. ~ Jim Rohn
“We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.” –
Jim Rohn
Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.
Values were meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value. Count the cost first. Don't pay too big a price for pursuing minor values.
“The one thing you need to know to become a great leader…is that there’s more than one thing you need to know about leadership!” There are no shortcuts to the top. There’s not a “secret sauce” or magic tonic that will instantly turn you into a magnificent leader.
Your Greatest Victory will be Victory over Self. Your Greatest Asset — Confidence. Your Greatest Weight — Taking Responsibility. Your Greatest Discipline —Listening, and serving.
“Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like the weather.”
— John Champlin Gardner, Jr.
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.”
— Denis Waitley
“With more success, comes greater problems along with the greater ability to solve them.”
— Mark Victor Hansen
“Challenge everything you do. Expand your thinking. Refocus your efforts. Rededicate yourself to your future.”
— Patricia Fripp
“A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.”
—Alistair Cooke
“We have no wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Clear Objectives are short phrases that start with an action word. These sentences are the outcomes or goals that you would like to accomplish by delivering your presentation.
Your beliefs are the driving force behind your behaviors. Beliefs send powerful messages to your brain that affect your actions (and their outcome) in either a positive or negative way.
You can change your life by changing your habits.
Don’t seek feedback from fair-weather friends, competitive peers, or any person who doesn’t have your best interests at heart. Neutral doesn’t count. Get feedback from someone who is on your side…
I’ve observed time and again that misery truly does love company. Jealousy creates some of the most miserable people.
"If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then the world is yours and all that's in it." — Rudyard Kipling
“Showing a profit means touching something and leaving it better than you found it.” – Jim Rohn
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