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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Dear Future Client: It’s no accident you are reading this. Somehow you found my web-site and this blog post. I am willing to guess that your life is good, for the most part. But, in some areas, it could be better (perhaps much better). And in others you are pleased with how things are going….
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. – Henry Kaiser As with everything, it’s all about perspective. See trouble and you’ll have a problem. See opportunity and you’ll dig in. What are you going to look for, now?
Here’s a short, but oh so sweet, post from Seth Godin: Hope and expectation Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work. Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we expect that something will happen, we can’t help but be let down… * * *…
I am a BIG believer in the idea that language, and it’s result, meaning, make SO much difference in and to our lives. I’ve said to people in the past: “What if you got to do that? Instead of having to do that?” Here is one of mentors making his case for this idea: People whose repeated…
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James I’m sure I’ve blogged on this quote before, but it bears repeating – at least for me. As I learned from a mentor, our lives are…
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller If anyone would know about character and overcoming adversity . . . . * * * If you want: to be different; to be better; something; to…