“The Key to Successful Leadership Today is Influence, Not Authority.” – Ken Blanchard I believe Mr. Blanchard is right when it comes to leadership. People tend to follow other people that they respect and admire. It is not bravado or titles that impress us. It is the people who walk their talk, go the extra
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I wrote a post on Facebook about commitment and stated that commitment is the ability to keep hanging in there long after the “mood” to do so has gone. My post got me thinking a little more about it. Why does one person succeed and another not? Often, it has everything to do with commitment.
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Everyone is a leader and everyone a follower, but when it comes to our own life, many times we are followers. We often procrastinate and delay decisions we need to make. We want other people to rescue us or solve our problems. We avoid making decisions. We delay, ignore or fill our life with distractions.
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Most of us are waiting. We are waiting for life to change or circumstances to change before we change. We are waiting for things to fall into place with our schedule, or finances before we take or make the time to do the things we really want to do. We are waiting for that big
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“I am so busy.” Yet when asked what are we so busy doing the response might not be so definitive. Somehow, we just don’t know where the day went, but we do know that we are busy! I find most people are really good at being busy, including me as well. In fact, we do
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Each of us has a sphere of influence. If you are a mom, you have influence over you children. If you are an employee, you have influence over your co-workers. If you are a friend, you have influence over your friends. What we do with our influence separates the true “leaders” from the “followers.” I
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I have been challenged in my thinking lately. We want success in life and business and yet we are not sure how to get there. We desire a breakthrough, but we don’t know how to have it. I have come to the conclusion that in order to step up to the next level in my
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Be careful what you say…. “Be slow to speak”… Have you ever thought about how powerful your words are? Wars have been started by words. People’s lives have been healed and inspired by words. Words are very powerful. When I think of the word “encourage”, I think of “putting courage in.” When I think of
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Life is not perfect and neither are our jobs, but there ought to be more of what you like or love about your job than not. Successful people understand who they are and who they are not. They know their strengths, gifts and passions and have decided to invest and build on those attributes. For
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Most of us could be encouraged to raise our expectation level a little. I love the quote by Ralph Charell, “Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.” Great quote Ralph. There is a direct correlation between what we expect and the results we get in
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