I have found the people who successfully lead and influence others have passion. This is a key factor to leading others. Because people want to follow someone who is passionate about life and the future. Having true passion requires you to be doing something which is in line with your life purpose and allowing you [...]
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Be Specific In Your Learning
When it comes to learning and developing the best thing you can do is to be specific. The key is to channel your learning to a few major areas. Doing this maximizes a person’s strengths, development, and potential. This is essential because it’s too hard to focus on growing and learning in every area. This [...]
READ MORE »Be Self-Motivated
A must have quality for leader’s is the ability to be self-motivated. This happens when a leader knows they need to rely primarily on inward motivation and not outward factors. Other people and things can and should motivate us but it should not be our main focus. Because, the only person who can motivate you [...]
READ MORE »Getting Off The Pathway of Failure
Leader’s can easily get into bad habits which lead to failure after failure. But the way to get out of this negative pathway is to replace the bad habits with good and healthy ones. If you can do this you will be on the way to success and achievement. Portia Nelson shares how to get [...]
READ MORE »Andy Stanley on Strengths
In this short video Andy Stanley says, “My fully-exploited strengths were of far greater value to our organization than my marginally-improved weaknesses.” Watch this clip to hear what he says about this topic. f Question: What are your thoughts about this topic?
READ MORE »21 Ways To Motivate Yourself
I have found living life can be hard, especially in this economy. Many things can de-motivate a person like losing a job, receiving bad news, or not reaching your goals or seeing success yet. Staying motivated is key when it come to living and leading successfully. It is also requires a person to be intentional [...]
READ MORE »Signs Of An Insecure Leader
Insecure leader’s are dangers because they are, “subject to fear, doubt, are not self-confident or assured, uneasy, anxious, liable, a risk, a danger, and not firmly or reliably placed.” We all have seen leader’s who let their insecurity rule their life. It is wise to remember, Insecure people hurt themselves. But… Insecure leader’s hurt themselves, [...]
READ MORE »What I’ve Been Doing and A Quick Thought
I wanted to share with you the reason why I have not posted for almost a week. Last week myself and wife moved into our first house then we went on a family vacation. I thought I would have energy and time to focus on writing and posting. But this was not the case. I [...]
READ MORE »Teachable Moments
I’m convinced we can learn from just about anything. Many times I have learned valuable leadership or business principles by being observant. A teachable moment is the ability to learn from any place, person, circumstance, or situation. It’s all about being observant which requires having attentive eyes and hears. A leader who is teachable and [...]
READ MORE »5 Characteristics Of A Godly Vision
When I was growing up my family went to a church with about 50 weekly attendees, which is still the case today. Looking back now I can see many factors which caused them not to become an Acts church. The main factors where the lack of leadership and vision. The truth is that if both [...]
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