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FIND a WAY to WIN at something EVERY DAY

It doesn’t have to be big. Some of the best days are made up of one or more small victories. Those incremental wins add up to meaningful change over time.
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

Howard Schultz

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work."

Oprah Winfrey

Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.

David Allen

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

You don't hire for skills, you hire for attitude.

Simon Sinek

Great leaders never stop clarifying expectations, and they never stop mentoring.

Eric Chester

The best leaders are the best learners. Learning is the master skill of leadership. Leaders are constant improvements fanatics.

Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

It doesn’t matter how many times you have failed. You only have to be right once.

Mark Cuban

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Richard Branson

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Rohn

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Dale Carnegie

You can't do it alone. Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause. You need to enable others to be even better than they already are.

Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

There are only two ways to influence human behavior; you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Simon Sinek

I believe each of us stands to gain far more if we shift our emphasis from what we get out of others to how we can make emotional deposits into others' lives.

Ross Woodstock

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

Robert Cialdini

We can transcend the script of a pre-defined story, and pave the way for the future that we design. We just need to tap that power, that conviction, that determination within us.

Robert F. Smith

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

Susan Cain

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.

Stephen Covey

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

Malcolm Gladwell

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself.

Oprah Winfrey

Over a decade of experience as a clinical psychologist and leadership consultant has taught me that burnout prevention requires reducing workplace stress while increasing employee engagement.

Natalia Peart

I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach.

Ursula Burns

The three most significant days in your life are: 1) The day you were born. 2) The day you find out why. 3) The day you discover how to contribute the gift you were born to give.

Taylor Hartman

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

Arianna Huffington

The coronavirus crisis is a marathon, not a sprint. To be productive for the long term, you’ll need to keep your motivation high. The best way to do that is to reconnect with your “why” frequently.

Michael Hyatt

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it.

Rick Warren

Leadership is an affair of the heart. Leaders love what they're doing and those they lead. Leaders make others feel great themselves and are gracious in showing their appreciation.

Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

You either lead by example or you don't lead at all. You have to go first as a leader. That's what it takes to get others to follow your lead.

Barry Z. Posner and James M. Kouzes

People tend to trust you when they think they're interacting with the real you, when they have faith in your judgment and competence, and when they believe you care about them.

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss

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