“The Power of Leadership”

Finishing our ‘Thoughts’ from Les Brown on the Steps to Survive and Keep Your Dream Alive.  Les say’s “Greatness is a choice; it’s not our destiny.”  These are his recommendations to help you reach your potential:

6.  Be Persistent – Stay with it and keep plugging away.  You’ve got to be hungry.  And when you are hungry you’ll be willing to go from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.  Being hungry also means you are willing to keep your commitment.  You are willing to pay attention to the small things.  You are able to create momentum and engage in day-to-day routines and activities that can produce some big moments.

7.  Be Positive – Expect good things to happen in your life and share those expectations. Often, people have the mindset that opportunities are going to knock on their doors, and, because they don’t knock, these people develop a glass-half-empty attitude about life.  My mindset is that opportunities do not knock; they stand by silently and wait for us to recognize them.  When you are operating from a positive mindset, you have less chance of getting locked in on doubt, worry, and regret.  You are looking for and constantly paying attention to other options that can work for you, as opposed to engaging in activities that work against you.

8.  Be Creative – Look for new ways to be effective.  Look for new ways to win.  It’s very important right now to harness your imagination and realize that even if you have been doing the same thing for 30 years, it doesn’t mean that’s all you can do.  “All you can do is all you can do.  And all you can do is enough.  So make sure that you can do all that you can do.”

9.  Be Concerned – Be concerned, but don’t be consumed.  Look for good information, but avoid news and information that doesn’t help you move ahead.  You don’t serve yourself to bury your head in the sand, it’s important to be informed, but you must effectively filter the information to utilize it and not be paralyzed by it.

10.  Be Faithful – You can’t have faith and worry in your life at the same time.  One will dominate and the other will yield.  Connect with your faith so it can keep you grounded and hopeful.  Faith is the oil that takes the friction out of living.  The true test of faith comes when life blindsides you.  That’s when we have to say to ourselves, no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, we are going to make it.  That’s the time when we must keep our heads up and know that we have it within us to overcome.  We have the capacity and power within us that is greater than our circumstances.  Live from faith not by fear.

“It’s easy to grin when your ship comes in and you’ve got the stock market beat; but the man worthwhile is the man you can smile, when his shorts are too tight in the seat.” – Judge Smails

Make today great!

Shawn
Performance Institute – A Global Leader in Human Capital and Business Development

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