John C. Maxwell says leadership is just as much about developing your team’s talents as it is about nurturing your own leadership skills. The best-selling author of Talent Is Never Enough reminds us that growth is modeled after and expected from leaders. As a successful leader, you must do eight things. 1. Find your own personal […]
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As a mentor you always have to be on top, and you can´t have a “bad” day. If you do, pretend you don´t. One of the best tools for a mentor is to show empathy with the mentee. It is one of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone, the gift of attention. The more
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“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.” How a leader deals with the circumstances of life tells you many things about his character. Crisis doesn’t necessarily make character, but it certainly does reveal it. We choose our character. In fact, we create it every
Imagine you have the ability to change the world. What would such a world look like? Few have the ability to change the course of history, but through a combination of courageous acts, we can all influence change. The legendary footballer Pelé of Brazil, watched his father cry as Brazil lost the World Cup
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What do you think about when I say gratitude? And what about gratitude is a key for your success? As you know I am writing an article about that for a book. And I would love to hear your insights about that. The book is all about gratitude: A key to success. Comments please…
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When you are working on you personal vision, I got three important questions. What makes you cry? What makes you dream? What gives you new energy? Implement this in your personal vision and you can easier implement it in your life.
Working with the chapter in the book about Gratitude it´s important to remember some small things. How to build a story. I am always trying to use this three keys: 1. A good story to get the readers interest and that they want to read more. 2. The main story 3. Summary and a wow
This week I was a judge for Young Enterprice Norway, in Oslo. And their first contest for students and on university level. There were 14 student companies, with names like “Babbfit” (a smart holder for kebab), “Gearlocks” (a new way of secure your ski at ski resorts) and “Innovation Corporation” (a new way of teaching
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It’s best to start the discipline of generosity when the amounts are small. It’s easy to give ten cents out of a dollar; it’s a little harder to give a hundred thousand out of a million.
Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.
Here’s what is exciting about sharing ideas with others: If you share a new idea with ten people, they get to hear it once and you get to hear it ten times.
Sharing makes you bigger than you are. The more you pour out, the more life will be able to pour in.
Somebody says, “Well, I can’t be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself.” Well, then you will always be poor.
What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
"Vitamins for the Mind" is a weekly sampling of original quotes on a specific topic taken from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn.
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Learn to think like a kid again and unlock your hidden potential.
Over the past couple of decades, industry leaders have tapped into an idea that philosophers (like Nietzsche) and scientists (like Einstein) have long championed: that it is useful and sometimes necessary for people to think like children to achieve success as adults.
People tend to get stuck in mental ruts, approaching everything from their jobs to their marriages from the same tired perspective. But taking cues from children can jolt us out of complacency and view the world from a whole-new angle—if only for moments at a time. Officials at Google and 3M found fashioning offices akin to kindergarten classrooms resulted in creative, energetic environments where innovative ideas are born every day. “
When people start to think like a child, they begin to see things from a fresh perspective,” says Jack Uldrich, global futurist, business speaker and bestselling author. “They learn to step back and view problems, people and things from a completely different point of view.”
START BEEING A KID!!!
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