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May 5 - May 7, 2014
I have dedicated my life to adding value to people.
Relationships: The greatest skill needed for success is the ability to get along with other people. It impacts every aspect of a persons life. Your relationships make you or they break you. Equipping: One of the most significant lessons I've learned is that those closest to you determine the level of your success. If your dreams are great, you achieve them only with a team.
Attitude: People's attitudes determine how they approach life day to day. Your attitude, more than your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Leadership: Everything rises and falls on leadership. If you desire to lift the lid on your personal effectiveness, the only way to do it is to increase your leadership skills.
We are all failures—at least, all the best of us are. —J. M. BARRIE
Kyle Rote Jr. remarked, "There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure."
How people see failure and deal with it—whether they possess the ability to look beyond it and keep achieving—impacts every aspect of their lives.
No matter how difficult your problems were, the key to overcoming them doesn't lie in changing your circumstances. It's in changing yourself.
One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures.
People Think Failure Is Avoidable—It's Not
Rule #1: You will learn lessons. Rule #2: There are no mistakes—only lessons. Rule #3: A lesson is repeated until it is learned. Rule #4: If you don't learn the easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is one way the universe gets your attention.) Rule #5: You'll know you've learned a lesson when your actions change.
People Think Failure Is an Event—It's Not
success is a process.
People Think Failure Is the Enemy—It's Not
"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."
People Think Failure Is Irreversible—It's Not
People Think Failure Is a Stigma—It's Not Mistakes are not permanent markers.
People Think Failure Is Final—It's Not
"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them."
Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success.
As you approach your next big project or assignment, give yourself a reasonable mistake quotient. How many mistakes should you expect to achieve? Twenty? Fifty? Ninety? Give yourself a quota, and try to hit it before bringing the task to completion. Remember, mistakes don't define failure. They are merely the price of achievement on the success journey.
Here's the approach I use to encourage and lead others: Value people. Praise effort. Reward performance.
"What distinguishes winners from losers is that winners concentrate at all times on what they can do, not on what they can't do.
Don't wait until you feel positive to move forward. Act your way into feeling good. That's the only way to start thinking more positively about yourself.
To conquer fear, you have to feel the fear and take action anyway.
Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.
"You're more likely to act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action."
I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes . . . otherwise he is sure to be mediocre."
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility. —MICHAEL KORDA
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves—to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
To have an opportunity to reach your potential, you must know who you are and face your flaws.
Working on your strengths is the next step in the process. No one ever achieved his dreams working outside his areas of gifting. To excel, do what you do well.
Sam Peeples Jr. says, "The circumstances of life, the events of life, and the people around me in life do not make me the way I am, but reveal the way I am."
Many people who struggle with chronic failure do so because they think of no one but themselves.
Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.
Bill Glass gives this advice: "When you get an insight or inspiration, do something about it in twenty-four hours—or the odds are against your ever acting on it."
When you are able to learn from any bad experience and thereby turn it into a good experience, you make a major transition in life.
People change when they ... Hurt enough that they have to, Learn enough that they want to, and Receive enough that they are able to.
Theodore Roosevelt did:"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Albert Gray says, "The common denominator of success lies in forming the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do."
Joe L. Griffith believes, "A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit." Many people don't have goals because they haven't allowed themselves to dream. As a result, they don't possess a desire.
persistence. That is the little difference that makes a big difference when it comes to failing forward.
'Most people run from problems. If you want to get ahead, go to your manager, and say, "You got problems? Give me some."
