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by
Robin Sharma
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December 23 - December 31, 2020
Victims recite problems. Leaders present solutions.
I’m just an ordinary guy who happened to get lucky enough to learn a series of extraordinary secrets that helped me become super-successful in business and deeply fulfilled in life.
the best you can do is all you can do.
Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness.
Doing my best work is all that matters to me. And I don’t need to have any formal authority to do that.
Life’s had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.
why would I leave a job I love so much? I’m having the time of my life! And doing work I cherish is one of the ways I stay so young at heart. I get to be creative here and stretch my thinking by solving problems.
I don’t want to be or need to become a manager. Just doesn’t interest me.”
“There’s only one way a business will win in the new world we’re in,
“Growing and developing the leadership talent of every single person throughout the organization faster than their competition.
It’s no longer an excuse to say you don’t have a high rank so you don’t need to take ownership for the results of the organization.
I’m not at all saying that an organization shouldn’t have titles. They should, actually. We need the people on the executive team setting the vision, steering the boat, and holding ultimate responsibility for the results. Titles and structures maintain order and keep everything running smoothly. But I am saying that for any organization to thrive amid all the turbulence in the business world today, each one of us needs to assume personal responsibility by becoming the CEO of our own roles and leaders within our current positions.
regardless of whether you have a formal title or not, you have total control of how you show up in your current role.
The highest of all human abilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond to the environment we find ourselves within.
Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit. Leadership’s a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
you don’t have to have a title to be a leader.”
everyone can lead. Actually, to build a truly outstanding organization, every single person who works there must lead.”
So many people go to work with the mind-set that when they get a bigger title and when they are granted more responsibility, then they will perform at mastery and go the extra mile in everything they do.
In work—and in life in general—you need to pay the price of success before you get all the rewards due to you.
the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don’t become one of them.”
“Seriously Exceptional Work,
leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren’t willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what’s easy and fun. Now, that’s not to say that the best leaders don’t have a great time. They definitely do. Actually, because of their superior ability to create success and lasting positive results, they end up having far more joy and delight in their lives than most of us will ever know.
leadership isn’t only something to do at work. We need to practice leadership within every arena we play. To arrive at our greatest lives, it’s ever so important to model leadership in our health, demonstrate leadership with our loved ones, reflect leadership around our finances, and live leadership within our communities.
the foundation of it all is self-leadership. If you can’t lead yourself, you’ll never be able to lead anyone around you.
‘Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we ...
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on your last day, all that truly matters is whether you got to know your inner leader, and if you did, whether you had the bravery to allow it to offer its gifts to the world around you.
“The 10 Human Regrets,”
You reach your last day with the brilliant song that your life was meant to sing still silent within you. 2. You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things. 3. You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example that you set. 4. You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks and so you never received any bright rewards. 5. You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunity to catch a glimpse of mastery because you
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I had been playing victim for most of the past years, blaming everything outside of me for the mess I was in rather than assuming responsibility for the place I now found myself.
each of us alone creates the lives we get to live.
No more blaming my past for my inability to win in the present.
True human heartbreak is reaching your final moments and realizing that you wasted the most important gift that was given to you—the chance to present your magnificence to the world around.
potential unrealized turns to pain.
success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for.
“Successful people all perform the same few leadership disciplines. They consistently practice the same few fundamentals. But their seemingly small, insignificant daily acts of excellence stack up over time to a best-in-class career and a world-class personal life.
Failure’s is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return.
You can hear a good idea one hundred times and fail to make it a piece of who you are until you actually experience it viscerally—in your body. Only then does it rise from being just some idea to a truth to you.
the rewards that you are guaranteed to get if you embrace the philosophy
1. You reach your end full of happiness and fulfillment on realizing that you are all used up—having spent the fullness of your talents, the biggest of your resources, and best of your potential doing great work and leading a rare-air life. 2. You reach your end knowing that you played at a standard of concentrated excellence and held yourself to the most impeccable of standards in each thing that you did. 3. You reach your end in noisy celebration for having the boldness of spirit to have regularly confronted your largest fears and realized your highest visions. 4. You reach your end and
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one of the greatest freedoms each of us has as people is the freedom to choose how we view our roles in the world and the power we all have to make positive decisions in whatever conditions we happen to find ourselves.”
Living in this way has given me so much energy and made me feel so good about myself. A lot of people around here think I’ve been ‘lucky.’ The management of this place treats me like a queen. The general manager has labeled me a ‘high potential’ and sent me on more training courses than I can count. The famous CEOs who stay here know me well and teach me a ton of their business ideas. The movie stars who stay here almost always request that I be the one to care for their rooms. And the tips I receive allow me to send some money home to my family down in Buenos Aires every month.
I created my ‘luck,’ even though I’ve faced some pretty big obstacles.”
‘lucky breaks’ are nothing more than unexpected rewards for intelligent choices we’ve chosen to make. Success doesn’t just happen because someone’s stars line up. Success, both in business and personally, is something that’s consciously created.
“People want something for nothing. They dream of having it all but aren’t willing to roll up their sleeves and put in the effort. They show up at a job and expect to be well paid without having to deliver the value that would justify them being well paid.
As you begin to do more of what Leaders Without a Title do, you are certain to receive the spectacular rewards that Leaders Without a Title get.
“In the world,” she confirmed. “I’ve discovered that my work is deeply important and essential to the smooth running of this intricate and well-regarded organization. I see myself as a goodwill ambassador for this hotel and someone who manages its brand by the way that I behave.”
We wish for something better rather than realizing that often everything we’re actually searching for lies exactly where we are.
impossible to build a tribute to success on a foundation of excuses.”
“Titles do bring power, Blake. But the problem with the type of power they bring is that if the title gets taken away, the power gets lost.”
Leading Without a Title seemed to involve a delicate balance between being firm yet friendly, tough yet tender, and courageous yet compassionate.
