If we are paying attention to our lives, we'll recognise those defining moments. The challenge for so many of us is that we are so deep into daily distractions and 'being busy, busy' that we miss out on those moments and opportunities that - if jumped on - would get our careers and personal lives to a whole new level of wow.
The best do sweat the small stuff. They get the seemingly insignificant details right. They have the discipline to shine at the baby things which they get gives birth to spectacular giant things.
By seizing the opportunities that disruption presents and leveraging hard times into greater success through outworking/outinnovating/outthinking and outworking everyone around you, this just might be the richest time of your life so far.
The fears you do not face become your walls. Most people in business, and in their personal lives, design everything so they can avoid doing what makes them feel uncomfortable. Yet any good business person knows we are not only paid to work, but also we are paid to be scared.
Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can Lead Without a Title.
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.
You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
The more people you help and the more value you create, the more your business will fly - and the quicker you'll win.
We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.
Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.
There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.
Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
I wish for a world where people understand that life is short. So today's the time to do big things.
The most important things in life have nothing to do with things.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
I have spent years as a leadership coach to the very wealthy and have been able to get behind the eyes of some of the world's best, studying the minute details of what makes a person great.
