“The Power of Leadership”

I’m a big fan of speaker/author Les Brown, he’s a real life rags to riches story and I’m confident ‘Thought of the Day’ readers will enjoy Les’s keys for establishing a success mindset.  I’ll share some of his key concepts for you this week as Les had presented in a recent Success Magazine “Legend Series” program and will encourage you to read his other works and if possible see him live:

Les say’s that success is a habit you must embrace on a daily basis, and the sooner you get into that mindset the sooner you will be able to give birth to possibilities you might not now be able to imagine.  “In order to do something you’ve never done, you’ve got to become someone you’ve never been.  I think that all of us have great potential within us, but greatness is a choice; it’s not our destiny.  And in the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials, failures and disappointments, which take us to the door of destiny and greatness.”  Brown says most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss.  “Most people fail because they aim too low and hit.  Any many don’t aim at all.”

If there is one theme Les Brown lives by, it’s that anything is possible.  “Most people have a tendency to settle early in life,” he says.  “They stop experimenting, developing, growing, pushing, and challenging themselves.  And in this global economy, that mindset is no longer an option.  We have to begin to understand that we must expand or we are expendable.”

Les’ advice to all is “to shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars!”

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at actually begin to change.” – Wayne Dyer

Have a great day!

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

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