This week’s external resource is another TED talk (what can I say, they’re brilliant!?), this time from Simon Sinek.
In this video he exhorts leaders – and really all of us – to come-from why in terms of leadership, or sales, or living your life, or…
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Of course it’s easy to be happy and positive when things are good, but what about when things are…
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of. – Henry Wheeler Shaw Whether it’s debt, or a relationship that isn’t working out, or a tool that you paid good money for (that didn’t live up to its original promise… ), once we’re in something, we’re often…
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” – Jim Rohn The simple fact is if you don’t develop yourself over time you’ll fall behind. And, if all you do is develop yourself for your current position, you’ll soon find yourself well equipped for a job that no longer exists (to inelegantly paraphrase…
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves. – Dwight Eisenhower Many people think “defeat” is losing, or being beaten. It’s really not. Defeat is when you stop working. When you stay down when you can get back up. Defeat is not trying because it seems too hard, or it didn’t work out…
I betcha the Dalai Lama has a pretty good “money consciousness” (MC). I’ve been listening to an audio book in the car by the DL (that’s what I sometimes call him, cuz we’re down… ) (How To See Yourself, if you’re wondering) and when he mentioned money he got me to thinking. Thinking about how…
I subscribe to a weekly newsletter from the Nightingale-Conant company.They, mainly, provide educational and motivational audio products. I have and listen to many of their programs. The newsletter that arrived in my Inbox Sunday night was quite interesting, specifically a table describing the ratio of training-to-performance for different professions/events: The point they were trying to…