Category: Leadership-Motivation!
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Passion & Purpose
Feel the fear and take deliberate risk for the sake of growth! Truly successful people are passionate about what they do and have a purpose connected to their passion. This passion gives them a strong desire to succeed. Passion will get you up in the morning, keep you committed to your results, and will not…
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Who said it would be easy?
“When I got my first real American job at a local McDonald’s restaurant, it was a lifeline for me…an immigrant who couldn’t speak English, who desperately wanted hope for the future. I knew that flipping burgers was not beneath my dignity. I had a different word for it. I called it Opportunity! Since I was…
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Capitalism vs. Welfare
A man was looking at a beautiful Cadillac Escalade and said, “I wonder how many people could have been fed for the cost of that car.” I replied, “I’m not sure. It fed a lot of families of the people in Michigan and Texas who built it; it fed the people who made the tires;…
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Dream
Howard Schultz’s dream was to have a nationwide chain of upscale coffee shops, but was told repeatedly this was an unrealistic concept. More than 240 banks turned down his request for financing. If Schultz had listened to and believed the critics, we wouldn’t have Starbucks on nearly every street corner. Don’t let small minds tell…
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True Leadership
If you’re simply trying to be the best on the team, you don’t leave much room for other people to grow and to lead. You’ll find the spotlight-stealers and credit-takers don’t typically rise up the leadership ladder. They are more interested in their own agenda than in the team’s potential, and it shows. It’s often…
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Teamwork
The late Steve Jobs shared this analogy about teamwork: “We had a lot of great ideas when we started Apple. But what I’ve always felt that a team of people doing something they really believe in is like…when I was a young kid there was a widowed man that lived up the street. He was…
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Be Bold
Standing on the edge is not as safe, but the view is much, much better. Be bold, take a risk, and act first!
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Be Proactive
18 year old Andrew Ference loved to play hockey, but scouts weren’t impressed with the young defenseman. He wasn’t invited for testing to qualify for the 1997 NHL draft. Ference refused to accept that he wouldn’t be able to play for the league…his dream…so on his own he contacted the same organization that the NHL’s…
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Luch
“Good luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Bad luck is what happens when lack of preparation meets a challenge.” It’s easy and less risky to react rather than act, to passively wait for things to happen instead of making them happen yourself. That’s why it’s important to be proactive. being proactive means that…