Dusty's Leadership Thoughts

Leadership 2/8/12 #2

2012-02-08T06:35:00.002-05:00

John’s Leadership message for today was too good not to share. Enjoy!

dusty

http://johnmaxwellteam.com/humility

Leadership 2/8/12

2012-02-08T06:35:00.001-05:00

“The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.”

John Buchan

Leadership 2/7/12

2012-02-08T06:33:00.000-05:00

“If no one accepts your excuses, then stop using them and start finding solutions.”

Dr. Ben Carson

Leadership 2/6/12

2012-02-08T06:32:00.002-05:00

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership 2/5/12

2012-02-08T06:32:00.000-05:00

"To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?"

Katharine Graham

Leadership 2/4/12

2012-02-04T06:44:00.001-05:00

"All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

Danny Thomas

Leadership 2/2/12

2012-02-03T18:09:00.003-05:00

“Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.”

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Leadership 2/3/12

2012-02-03T18:09:00.001-05:00

“Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good; try to use ordinary situations.”

Jean Paul Richter

Leadership 2/1/12

2012-02-03T18:09:00.000-05:00

"Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

Zig Ziglar

Leadership 1/31/12

2012-01-31T16:27:00.001-05:00

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."

Gandhi

Leadership 1/30/12

2012-01-30T05:34:00.001-05:00

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

Henry Ford

Leadership 1/29/12

2012-01-29T19:03:00.001-05:00

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

St. Francis of Assisi

Leadership 1/28/12

2012-01-28T16:39:00.000-05:00

“Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.”

Denis Waitley

Leadership 1/27/12

2012-01-27T06:55:00.005-05:00

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

Leonardo da Vinci

Leadership 1/26/12

2012-01-27T06:55:00.004-05:00

“A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”

Jim Rohn

Leadership 1/24/12

2012-01-27T06:55:00.002-05:00

“Lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin

Leadership 1/24/12

2012-01-27T06:54:00.000-05:00

"The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose."

E.M Gray

Leadership 1/23/12

2012-01-23T20:47:00.003-05:00

“Everything starts with the customer.”

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

Leadership 1/21/12

2012-01-23T20:47:00.001-05:00

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership 1/19/12

2012-01-20T15:49:00.002-05:00

“Persistence turns productive behavior into positive habits.”

Mark Sanborn

Leadership 1/20/12

2012-01-20T15:49:00.000-05:00

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

Winston Churchill

Leadership 1/18/12

2012-01-20T15:48:00.000-05:00

"If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you."

Muhammad Ali

Leadership 1/17/12

2012-01-17T04:59:00.002-05:00

‎"Everybody can be great, because everyone can serve"

Martin Luther King Jr.

Leadership 1/16/12

2012-01-17T04:58:00.002-05:00

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leadership 1/15/12

2012-01-17T04:58:00.000-05:00

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but they never quit.”

Conrad Hilton

Leadership 1/13/12

2012-01-13T06:16:00.000-05:00

‎"We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice."

John C. Maxwell

Leadership 1/12/12

2012-01-13T06:15:00.006-05:00

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

Theophrastus

Leadership 1/11/12

2012-01-13T06:15:00.005-05:00

“One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

Arnold Glasow

Leadership 1/10/12

2012-01-13T06:15:00.004-05:00

“Brevity is very good, when we are, or are not, understood.”

Samuel Butler

Leadership 1/9/12

2012-01-13T06:15:00.002-05:00

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

Johnny Cash

Leadership 1/7/12

2012-01-13T06:15:00.000-05:00

"It's choice -- not chance -- that determines your destiny."

Jean Nidetch

Leadership 1/6/12

2012-01-13T06:14:00.001-05:00

"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Leadership 1/5/12

2012-01-05T04:57:00.000-05:00

"Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil."

Anonymous

Leadership 1/4/12

2012-01-04T05:39:00.000-05:00

"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

Victor Hugo

Leadership 1/3/12

2012-01-03T04:54:00.000-05:00

"Nothing will work unless you do."

John Wooden

Leadership 1/2/12

2012-01-02T09:43:00.000-05:00

Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Tony Campolo

Leadership 1/1/12

2012-01-01T09:25:00.000-05:00

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential."

Ellen Goodman

Leadership 12/31/11

2011-12-31T07:53:00.001-05:00

“Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.”

Unknown

Leadership 12/30/11

2011-12-30T04:09:00.000-05:00

“I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.”

Margaret Thatcher

Leadership 12/29/11

2011-12-29T04:59:00.000-05:00

“The most important thing to do in solving a problem is to begin.”

Frank Tyger

Leadership 12/28/11

2011-12-28T12:02:00.000-05:00

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest that you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Leadership 12/27/11

2011-12-27T11:21:00.000-05:00

“If a manager has any responsibility in the world, it’s to help people understand why their work matters. If they don’t think that’s their role, then they’re the ones who don’t deserve their job.”

Patrick Lencioni

Leadership 12/26/11

2011-12-26T07:41:00.000-05:00

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."

Swami Sivananda

Leadership 12/24/11

2011-12-24T07:36:00.000-05:00

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.”

Andrew Carnegie

Leadership 12/23/11

2011-12-23T05:43:00.000-05:00

"Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense."

Thomas Arnold Bennett

Leadership 12/22/11

2011-12-22T05:33:00.000-05:00

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

Denis Waitley

Leadership 12/21/11

2011-12-21T04:00:00.000-05:00

“Any man will usually get from other men just what he is expecting of them….Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.”

John Richelsen

Leadership 12/20/11

2011-12-20T05:28:00.000-05:00

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

Tony Robbins

Leadership 12/19/11

2011-12-19T07:57:00.001-05:00

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

Thomas Jefferson

Leadership 12/16/11

2011-12-16T12:51:00.000-05:00

"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Leadership 12/15/11

2011-12-15T05:46:00.000-05:00

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

Leadership 12/14/11

2011-12-14T05:19:00.000-05:00

“One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.”

Florence Nightingale

Leadership 12/13/11

2011-12-13T03:35:00.000-05:00

“Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determinations.”

John Garns

Leadership 12/12/11

2011-12-12T04:28:00.000-05:00

“Success doesn't come to you…you go to it.”

Marva Collins

Leadership 12/10/11

2011-12-10T05:09:00.000-05:00

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm."

Charles Kettering

Leadership 12/09/11

2011-12-09T07:12:00.000-05:00

“Here is a simple but powerful rule … always give people more than they expect to get.”

Nelson Boswell

Leadership 12/08/11

2011-12-08T04:17:00.000-05:00

"There are no easy answers but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

Ronald Reagan

Leadership 12/07/11

2011-12-07T04:10:00.000-05:00

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

William Shakespeare

Leadership 12/06/11

2011-12-06T03:44:00.000-05:00

“Farming looks might easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the cornfield.”

Dwight Eisenhower

Leadership 12/05/11

2011-12-05T04:58:00.000-05:00

“People are not your most important asset; the right people are.”

Jim Collins

Leadership 12/04/11

2011-12-04T04:28:00.000-05:00

“Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership 12/03/11

2011-12-03T07:28:00.000-05:00

“A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.”

Darren Hardy

Leadership 12/02/11

2011-12-02T04:28:00.000-05:00

“The only way to get positive feelings about yourself is to take positive actions. Man does not live as he thinks, he thinks as he lives.”

Vaughan Quinn

Leadership 12/01/11

2011-12-01T04:14:00.000-05:00

“Winners take imperfect action while losers are still perfecting the plan.”

Tony Robbins

Leadership 11/30/11

2011-11-30T08:56:00.000-05:00

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."

Samuel Johnson

Leadership 11/29/11

2011-11-29T06:29:00.000-05:00

“Don’t live in the circumstances of your life…live in the possibilities.”

Oprah Winfrey

Leadership 11/28/11

2011-11-28T04:28:00.000-05:00

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”

Douglas Everett

Leadership 11/27/11

2011-11-27T05:28:00.000-05:00

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”

Albert Einstein

Leadership 11/26/11

2011-11-26T04:13:00.000-05:00

“It’s the little things you do that make the big things happen.”

Mike Dooley

Leadership 11/25/11

2011-11-25T06:58:00.000-05:00

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

Rumi

Leadership 11/24/11

2011-11-24T06:25:00.000-05:00

“It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.”

Donald Curtis

Leadership 11/23/11

2011-11-23T03:45:00.000-05:00

“He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.”

Anwar Sadat

Leadership 11/22/11

2011-11-22T05:29:00.000-05:00

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."
Tony Robbins

Leadership 11/21/11

2011-11-21T07:00:00.000-05:00

“Do good toward those who can’t or won’t do anything good for you.”

Andy Stanley

Leadership 11/20/11

2011-11-20T06:09:00.000-05:00

“The end goal of influence is to have positive impact in the lives of others as you, yourself, achieve fulfillment.”

Jeremie Kubicek

Leadership 11/19/11

2011-11-19T04:19:00.000-05:00

“If you learn anything…please learn to ask for help. It is a sign of wisdom and strength.”

David Skorton

Leadership 11/18/11

2011-11-18T06:28:00.000-05:00

“One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.”

Booker T. Washington

Leadership 11/17/11

2011-11-17T05:58:00.000-05:00

“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that."

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Leadership 11/16/11

2011-11-16T06:41:00.000-05:00

“Before you can learn a new way of doing things, you have to unlearn the old way. So beginnings depend on endings.”

Rick Maurer

Leadership 11/15/11

2011-11-15T06:22:00.000-05:00

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

Booker T. Washington

Leadership 11/14/11

2011-11-14T06:28:00.000-05:00

“Hence it became evident that if man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.”

G.K. Chesterton

Leadership 11/13/11

2011-11-13T06:28:00.000-05:00

“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.”

John C. Maxwell

Leadership 11/12/11

2011-11-12T06:58:00.000-05:00

“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.”

Konrad Adenauer

Leadership 11/10/11

2011-11-10T05:49:00.000-05:00

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

Mother Teresa

Leadership 11/8/11

2011-11-08T06:03:00.001-05:00

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

Steve Jobs

Leadership 11/06/11

2011-11-06T05:07:00.000-05:00

“You just have to keep on breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise and who knows what the tide will bring.”

‘Cast Away’

Leadership 11/05/11

2011-11-05T04:00:00.000-04:00

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

Lance Armstrong

Leadership 11/4/11

2011-11-04T04:29:00.000-04:00

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.”

Mark Twain

Leadership 11/3/11

2011-11-03T06:09:00.000-04:00

“The greatest way to never chase your dream is to spend your time hating someone else’s dream.”

Jon Acuff

Leadership 11/1/11

2011-11-01T09:05:00.000-04:00

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”

Goethe

Leadership 10/31/11

2011-10-31T04:09:00.000-04:00

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."

Leonardo da Vinci

Leadership 10/30/11

2011-10-30T07:29:00.000-04:00

“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be exceptional.”

Mark Sanborn

Leadership 10/29/11

2011-10-29T06:01:00.000-04:00

“Some favorite expressions of small children: “It’s not my fault…They made me do it…I forgot.”

Some favorite expressions of adults: “It’s not my job…No one told me…It couldn’t be helped.”

True freedom begins and ends with personal accountability.”

Dan Zadr

Leadership 10/28/11

2011-10-28T08:20:00.000-04:00

“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.”

Sir Josiah Stam

Leadership 10/27/11

2011-10-27T05:12:00.001-04:00

“Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

Jim Collins

Leadership 10/26/11

2011-10-26T04:29:00.000-04:00

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”

Karen Lamb

Leadership 10/25/11

2011-10-25T04:00:00.000-04:00

“We have too many “non-tryers” these days. They’re afraid of how things may look.”

Mike Leach

Leadership 10/23/11

2011-10-24T08:54:00.003-04:00

“As soon as you feel comfortable, that’s when it’s time to start over.”

Jerry Weintraub

Leadership 10/24/11

2011-10-24T08:54:00.001-04:00

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus

Leadership 10/22/11

2011-10-24T08:53:00.002-04:00

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Martin Luther King