Do you want to effectively influence others? Before you go down a laundry list of all you know about a subject, start by explaining why you are so passionate about that subject. As Teddy Roosevelt said, “No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.”
Read MoreWhether you love him, hate him, could care less about him or have never heard of him, I find that the message behind some of what pastor/author Joel Osteen says, can be very powerful. During one of his sermons, he stated that, “God has an assignment for you. He’s watching over you until you complete it. It’s not your time to go until then. Someone out there needs you to complete your assignment.”
Read MoreIn the book, “The Magic of Thinking Big,” David Schwartz states: “Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking.”
Read MoreIn the book, “The Power of Decision” author Raymond Charles Barker states, “We’d be living in a grand utopia if all men (and women) who had great ideas took action.”
Read MoreThe following quote is often attributed to Shakespeare or Picasso (though no one is certain who said it first) but regardless, it’s pretty profound. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Read MoreJQ Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.”
Read MoreNietzsche stated: “One should not seek to enjoy where one does not give joy.”
Read MoreOften times we know how we feel in the presence of certain people. Some folks brighten our days just by being near them while others put off a dark cloud of dreariness that you can physically feel anytime you are around them. But what do others feel when in your presence? A message delivered by a monk at the Self Realization Fellowship said the following: “The goal is to have so much love and God flowing in and from you that others can feel it when they are in your presence.”
Read MoreIn his 2010 documentary “I Am”, Tom Shadyac takes a deep dive into what’s wrong with the world and what we can do about it. At the film’s conclusion, he says he hopes we can ask “What’s right with the world" and all of us be able to answer: “I am.”
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