Displaying items by tag: Leadership Skills

Coaching Thought:

'Don’t check your smartphone or email first thing; doing so lets others set your agenda. Instead, lay out your top three objectives for the day and only then check incoming email.'   - Mel Robbins, author

Coaching Thought:

'Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.'  - Harry S. Truman; 33rd President of the United States.

Coaching Thought:

'In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none, that means you’re stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!' –  Rob Liano; coach,  author. Now more than ever, there is no excuse for not upskilling and expanding your knowledge base. Technology in the last Covid year has exploded, and everything is literally at your fingertips. During this period, more learning institutions than ever before have provided free education, courses and resources.  There is almost no subject you can't dig deeper into, if you have a curious mind and a thirst for knowledge. Your physical body may be in lockdown situations, but your mind most certainly isn't. And knowledge is one of life's true treasures, that no one can ever take away from you.

Coaching Thought:

Failure is so often considered a negativity. But failure is actually just information - how to do things differently. If you mine for the gems in everything that happens, you are constantly learning new ways, new information.  All of which brings you closer to success. As Edison, inventor of the light bulb,  said, 'I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.'  Every failure should be a stepping stone to something better.You start the next project from  a place of higher knowledge.

Coaching Thought:

Fear keeps us playing a small game, nervous to put our heads above the parapet, hiding in the safety of a lukewarm life. But people who spend all their time thinking about problems are in danger of imagining a false reality. Challenges are there to lift us to higher performance. We must do something, and stop wallowing in fearful thoughts.  'Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will!' W. Clement Stone.

There are many successful people in the world who have had not the advantage of formal education. Some famous high school dropouts are:

Albert Einstein (physicist); John D Rockefeller (oil magnate); John Glenn (astronaut); Steve Jobs (Apple co-founder); Henry Ford (entrepreneur and industrialist).

The qualities they all had in common were consistency, focus, curiosity, persistence, continued self-education, action-taking, calculated risk-taking - qualities we can all choose to focus on and become good at.  There has never been a better time to seek, learn and upskill ourselves.  'While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success, nor is its absence a fatal handicap.' ~ Ray Kroc.