If You Believe You Are

It's Not Leadership By Position That Allows People To Succeed; It's The Capacity To Influence The Thoughts, The Feelings, The Emotions, And The Actions Of Other Human Beings.

Often People Talk About How They Feel 'stuck' In A Situation. You're Never Stuck! You May Be A Little Frustrated, You May Not Have Clear Answers, But You're Not Stuck. The Minute You Represent The Situation To Yourself As Being Stuck, Though, That's Exactly How You'll Feel. We Must Be Very Careful About The Metaphors We Allow Ourselves To Use.

A Fantastic Analogy For The Power Of Focus Is Racing Cars. When Your Car Begins To Skid, The Natural Reflex Is To Look At The Wall In An Attempt To Avoid It. But If You Keep Focusing On What You Fear, That's Exactly Where You'll End Up. Professional Racers Know That We Unconsciously Steer In The Direction Of Our Focus, So With Their Lives On The Line, They Turn Their Focus Away From The Wall And Towards The Open Track.

I'm Certainly Not Saying That My Life Is What Success Is All About. To Me, Success Is The Ongoing Process Of Striving To Become More.

People With An Impoverished Vocabulary Live An Impoverished Emotional Life; People With Rich Vocabularies Have A Multihued Palette Of Colors With Which To Paint Their Experience, Not Only For Others, But For Themselves As Well.