Gullibility undermines satisfaction. When you lack discernment, manipulators run your life.
Overcome gullibility when people share their ideas. Often their ideas are job assignments for you. When that happens, tell them you already have a job. Ask, “How can you give life to that idea?”
Discernment navigates the tension between change and stability.
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When you manage time, you manage life.
Alan Lakein said, “Time is life…To waste your time is to waste your life, but to master your time is to master your life and make the most of it.”
Squandered time is wasted life.
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Can you list yourself among inspirational leaders and not get laughed out of the room? Evaluate your leadership by your ability to inspire people.
It takes no skill to anchor a boat.
Inspiration and encouragement are different things.
Every successful leader is people-pleaser.
The more people you please the more successful you become.
Customers buy because you please them.
Employees commit because you please them.
Stakeholders invest because you please them.
Stop pretending you’re not a people-pleaser. Everyone wants to please someone. The question isn’t if, but how.
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Losing yourself is exhausting. Vitality rises when you stop working to prove yourself.
You’re most like your real self when you feel most alive.
Stress rises when you feel like a fraud.
You are your own raw material.
