Attitude
Attitudes are more important than facts
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
—Thomas Carlyle
The mind is everything; What you think you become
—Buddha
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is not necessarily a flashy or heated phenomenon, but rather a strong, controlled motivation, and may be present in the quiet and restrained person, as well as in the vigorous extroverted individual. The world belongs to the enthusiast who can keep cool.
”In the new world we live in, content is the way we will differentiate ourselves” —- Greg Smith: Why I Left Goldman Sachs
Action
It is nearly always action - not opinion - that adds the most value
Managing vs Leading
If you feel you have to over-manage or micromanage, it is because you are under-leading
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What is missing from a situation is that which you are not giving
Happiness
Happiness is not correlated to perfect circumstances or a lack of stress in your life, but to the amount of personal accountability you accept
Pray not to change your circumstances but instead to see your circumstances differently
Empowerment without accountability is chaos
Ambiguity is the source of ALL conflict
Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them
—Albert Einstein
Confidence moves you forward; ego holds you back. They are quite distinct and they are not always correlated.
A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul of a leader
—Cy Wakeman
Enthusiasm
Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution
Enthusiasm, prayer and strategy will solve any problem, however tough.
In fact, they just don’t make problems tough enough for that powerful combination
Enthusiasm can work miracles in problems
