No one can do the minimum and reach his maximum potential.
- People now focus more on their rights than on their responsibilities.
- “Stress comes from doing less than you can.” – Jim Rohn
Make high quality your goal, and responsibility will naturally follow.
- To improve your aim, improve yourself.
- If you have trouble achieving excellence, maybe you’ve lowered your standards.
- Make changes to set higher standards.
Don’t follow the crowd; make up your own mind.
- Consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes…
Anyone who does what he must only when he is in the mood or when it’s convenient isn’t going to be successful. Nor will people respect and follow him.
- Self-discipline can’t be a one-time event. It has to become a lifestyle.
- Anytime you concentrate on the difficulty of the work instead of its results or rewards, you’re likely to become discouraged.
- Dwell on it too long, and you’ll develop self-pity instead of self-discipline.
- Don’t quit, because once you get into that mode of quitting, then you feel like its okay.
Re-source: Reap
receive (a reward or benefit) as a consequence of one's own or other people's actions
If you don’t like the crop you are reaping, check the seed you are sowing. What kind of crop are you reaping?
- Does your life and leadership seem to be getting better day after day, month after month, year after year?
- Or are you constantly fighting just to hold your ground?
“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.”
Ray Kroc
Effective leaders know that what got them there doesn’t keep them there.
- If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today.
“For everything you gain, you lose something.” – Emerson
- To gain growth, you give up your pride.
- “He who makes no mistakes, makes no progress.”
craving and resource from “The 21 Indisputable Qualities of a Leader” by John C. Maxwell