Champions are people in whom courage has become visible.
It takes courage to face reality, admit need, change, make decisions, and hold convictions.
Courage ventures from the path and leads the way. It dares to be different, and as a result, expands the circle of human experience.
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Do you live in a friendly or a hostile universe?
Do you expect things to work out for you or expect things to work against you?
Often we look at things from the negative point of view, not the positive, and we reap failure, not fruitfulness.
Whether you expect something negative to happen or you expect something positive to happen, the same amount of energy is expended in the expecting.
Only the fruit is different.
When you change your point of view, the situation hasn’t changed, but you have.
Deliberately
- a positive culture does not happen by accident, negative ones do.
Purposefully
- you have to know the elements that are important to you.
- a culture is an extension of the core values of the leadership.
Constantly
- at every occasion with every interaction and with every decision you have to refine, you add to and clarify your culture.
Continually
- you never arrive when it comes to building a culture. it is not something you do - it is an extension of who you are.
Contagiously
- the difference between a good culture and a great culture is the “raving fans” that a great culture creates.
Have you ever noticed how a clock ticking in the middle of the night in another room will wake you?
Have you every noticed that a leaking tap can drip all day and not get your attention, yet when you are trying to sleep - it screams?
Have you ever noticed that it is the one person talking in the midst of a hundred that will ruin a movie scene for you?
All of these are small noises.
It is like that in life.
It is so easy to get distracted from the big picture by the small noises.
The small thinkers.
The doomsayers.
The gloom sellers.
The death row inmates of No Hopesville, Losertown, USA.
Years ago, I decided that I would listen to the voice of God and not the small noises that surround me.
So it must be for everyone who wants to achieve greatness in life and fulfill their potential.
Small noises.
They are distracting.
Irritating.
At the end of the day, turn them off or pull out the batteries, because they are just not worth losing sleep over.
Leadership is not a popularity contest.
It is a commitment to a cause more important that personal comfort or popularity.
It is a decision to lead people where they want to go, but they are unsure how to get there.
It is a commitment to lead them along unfamiliar paths and personal uncharted territories.
All vision must have a purpose.
There is a difference between an obsession and a passion.
With an obsession – the activity is the end in and of itself.
With a passion - the activity is a means to an end.
Can I warn you that being obsessed with making money is different to having a passion for changing lives and creating generational wealth.
Sales and clients are a means to our end; the end game is the lives we shall change, the people we shall help and the world that we can touch.
The best way for you to predict the future is to create it.
What happens when your future comes and goes…where does that leave you!!???
Something I want you to think about….
There is no present, there is only the immediate future and the present past. So what are you living for and what are you building for?
The primary quality of all leaders is the ability to make decisions. Indecisive men are double-minded men and they’re unstable men in all their ways.
The top priority of a leadership requirement list is the ability to make decisions. Good leaders do not second-guess themselves, because when they do, they create confusion in their own mind.
Based on the choices you make, based on the decisions you make, you are your own best friend or your worst enemy.
Once the decision is made, if it’s wrong, make it right. If it’s right, go for it with everything that you have.
Your life is composed of your choices and constructed by your words. Your choices determine your conduct, your character and your destiny. If you don’t like the life you’re living right now, change your choices and the use of your words.
Change is the only constant in maturity.
Decisions that we make are not instantaneous. They are rooted and grounded in our character. The decisions you make spontaneously, instantaneously have their root and their ground and their seed bed in the character that you develop over a period of time.
So out of that character then comes the decisions you make that help further determine your character over a process of time.
Character counts.