Indomitable Spirit Is Priceless
The road to excellence has no finish line.
This is the main reason people give up.
Or maybe it’s the fear of success.
What do you think is the main reason people live with discontent in the workplace?
Like I said yesterday, maybe it’s time for a meeting.
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
These Trees Never Stood A Chance
Trees near the Atlantic Ocean are under constant stress from the wind. And over time, they are shaped with a westerly lean. While they survive, they are indeed changed forever.
And quite possibly, they are happier and more courageous than “normal” trees. Only the trees know for sure.
What have the winds of society done to your attitude?
Made you stronger and more resilient?
Or, made you so fearful, you aren’t even conscious of it?
Time for a meeting?
Is This Your Daily Focus?
Leaders, ask yourself a very simple question.
If your people could vote whether or not to keep you as their leader, would they?
No Nothing. Have A Nice Day.
We don’t need outdated rules.
We don’t need new rules.
We need courage.
Courage.
Rules are guidelines anyway.
Courage is like yeast. A little goes a long way.
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For many, including me, the traditional work day is over. That’s what time it is. Quitting time.
Did you give 110% today, even though it was Friday and you no doubt had a very long, trying week?
If you do not love what you do, you most likely didn’t give 100%, let alone anything extra.
What time is it?
Time for your employer to find your replacement?
Has Your Bus Left Without You?
Have you ever thought of your personal situation, and asked yourself, “Who’s more inspired and committed to my professional dream than me?”
Remember, this is you asking you.
Pretending to address the judge in the final arguments: “I rest my case your honor!”
Why?
Why do bars and pubs stop serving customers when they are drunk, but Quick Service Restaurants continue to serve obese people?
Leadership excellence starts with the person dressing you each day.
Why are our Nation’s children obese?
Plain and simple. Ineffective leadership.
How do we expect kids to be healthy if we aren’t.
Failure Is Not An Option
Tony Morgan. Never heard of him until a few months ago. A LinkedIn network update led me to a top ten article.
To read the top ten reasons why you and I will most likely fail at anything, click here.
Tony Morgan’s list isn’t anything new. Heck, there’s hardly anything that’s ever really new. However, one of the great, underrated keys to success is repetition.
Let me say that again, repetition. Ya with me?
Kinda Freaky
Okay, the human mind is remarkably strange. This Rick James song from long ago is in my head. Why? Because I’ve just reflected on the past two jungle jeff blog posts.
Wake up calls. Corporate down-sizing. Christmas Day attempted terrorist attack. It’s all kinda freaky, super freaky.
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. Pancreatic cancer. Wife. Three young kids. Best-selling author. Hero. Role model. Computer Science Professor. Oprah Winfrey Guest. Deceased.
These are unprecedented times. Turbulent times. Stressful times. Uncertain times.
But time marches on. Question is, “Will we?”
The Last Lecture
I get it. There is only so much a person can read. We can’t do it all. Right there with you. And, many of us received new books as gifts recently.
What books changed your life last year?
There were a few for me. Two had significant impact.
Up first, The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. Randy was a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor, in his mid-40′s. He had a wife and three children under the age of six.
Then he got pancreatic cancer.
To paraphrase what I heard Randy say:
This isn’t a book about dying. It’s a book about living.
It isn’t a book for you and me. It is a book for Randy Pausch’s children.
How did this book change my life?
It is in living in the moment that makes us great leaders. Doing things – things that matter – with a heightened sense of urgency has changed my life. I’ll tell you why tomorrow.