Man is what he thinks all day.
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In this fast-moving, super-specialized century, unless you are able to clearly and calmly and deliberately set goals for yourself, you are becalmed in indecision and inertia.
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Select your goal.
Unlock your personal potential.
Commit yourself to your plan.
Chart your course.
Expect problems.
Stand firm on your commitment.
Share the rewards with others.
~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Principles for Graduates
American Idol Syndrome.
Great business communicators know that words alone will not rally their audiences. They use strong, confident body language to add polish to their presentations, speeches, or meetings. Good business communicators understand the concept, but don’t put it into practice as much as they should. Average business communicators need a friendly reminder. Poor business communicators—dull, uninspiring, and painful to watch—are completely oblivious to their lack skill. But of course they think they’re great! I call it the American Idol Syndrome. After interviewing the world’s top spokespeople for more than fifteen years in television. I’ve noticed a correlation: those who say they’re great presenters or spokespeople are inevitably the worst. Those who are more modest, and who ask for feedback, are by the far the best. Don’t ask me to explain it. I’m a journalist not a therapist!
~ Carmine Gallo, 10 Simple Secrets of the World’s Greatest Business Communicators
How are You Holding Your Fate?
Here are five steps to help you get clear on what’s going on and what you can do next. If possible, get a “thinking partner” as you work through these steps.
- Be aware. Are you aware of what’s really going on and how happy or unhappy you are?
- Do you want to shift? Have you decided to make changes? (You will likely need to ask yourself this question for each change.)
- Create space. Allow full expression and unpacking without judgement and without denying any problems.
- Mine for gold. Explore issues by asking the following questions:
- What’s not being heard? What are the requests under the complaints?
- What beliefs and habits are getting in the way and keeping you stuck?
- Do you have space for reflection and self-care?
- Get into action. What needs to happen to create even tiny shifts? Go there.
~ Anese Cavanaugh, Contagious Culture: Show Up, Set the Tone, and Intentionally Create an Organization that Thrives
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
~ Bob Proctor, The ABC’s of Success
Rise Above It
One of the most common reactions to frustration is aggression. Let someone drive in front of us and block our progress while we are rushing to an appointment, and our thin veneer of civilized behavior peels off with a blast on the horn or an angry shout.
While aggression may be a direct and common reaction to frustration, the reaction itself often leads to additional sources of frustration, especially if it is another person who is the target of the aggression. The other person may hit back.
~ Bob Proctor, The ABC’s of Success
Our environment, the world in which we live and work,
is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
Your living is determined not so much by what life
brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life;
not so much by what happens to you as by
the way your mind looks at what happens.
~ Bob Proctor, The ABC’s of Success
A Thorn In Your Side?
As you discover your purpose in life and pursue your dreams, you will inevitably spend more and more of your time doing what you enjoy and do best.
That’s good. You can achieve your dreams only if you focus on your priorities.
But success requires something else: discipline. One of the best ways I know to improve discipline is to do something you don’t enjoy doing – every day. If you learn to do what you must, you will be able to do what you want.
~ John C. Maxwell, Leadership Principles for Graduates
Rate the intensive above the extensive. The perfect does not lie in quantity, but in quality. All that is best is always scant and rare, for mass in anything cheapens it. Even among men of giants have often been true pygmies. Some judge books by their thickness, as though they had been written to exercise the arms instead of the mind. Bigness alone never gets beyond the mediocre. It is the curse of the universal man that by trying to be everything, he is nothing. It is quality that bestows distinction, in heroic proportions if the substance is sublime.
~ Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom