Category: Helpful Resources

by John Maxwell, Simon Sinek, Laura Sicola, Gen. James Mattis

• The position doesn’t make you a leader. 

• Relationships with people is the foundation of leadership because leadership is influence.

• Too many leaders are like travel agents, sending people to where they have never been. Leaders should be like tour guides, taking people on the journey with them.

• Who you are as a leader determines who you attract on your team.

• Managers solve problems but leaders create momentum.

• Successful people discover what they are good at. Successful leaders discover what other people are good at.

• People follow leaders for themselves, not for the leader. They want what the leaders wants. 

By Stephen C. Lundin 

You can change the environment in the workplace through the following four practices:

1. Choose Your Attitude 

• • • • • • If you don’t get this one down, the other steps do not matter. 
          • You always have a choice about your attitude. 
          • You don’t choose your work but you can choose to enjoy your attitude about the work you do. 
          • You can choose the kind of day you’ll have. 
          • Each of person is an artist, creating their day as they go along. 
          • To take no action is to fail for sure. 
          • Things won’t get better until we make them better. 
          • Choose your attitude every day, and choose it well. 
          • If you want to change your culture, change your conversations. 
          • Bring your best qualities to work, it is our choice. 

2. Play

• • • • • • Enjoy your work. 
          • Have fun at work. 
          • Happy people treat others well.
          • Post signs to have fun and make work a fun environment. 
          • You can be serious about your work without being so serious. 

3. Make Their Day

• • • • • • Find ways to engage people and involve them – make their day. 
          • The attitude must be inclusion.
          • Engage your customers. 
          • Go above your normal responsibilities with your customers. 
          • Don’t make others think they are a bother for making you do your job.
          • Serving customers well makes a big difference. 

4. Be Present

• • • • • • Show them instead of just telling them. 
          • Focus on where you are now. 
          • The past is history, the future is a mystery, and today is a gift, which is why it’s called the present. 
          • Efficiency is not always wise when you need to be there for another person. Put down the phone, close the computer, ignore the text, don’t think of other things, and be present with that person at that moment. 

• You must lead yourself before you can lead others. 

• It starts with you, not others.

• Your words affect how you act. 

• Lead by example. 

• It feels better to achieve something positive instead of avoid something negative. 

By Simon Sinek

• Happiness comes from what you do but fulfillment comes from why you do it.

• Most of us know what we do, but we do not know why we do it.

• Money is not what drives most people, there’s a purpose that drives them. 

• Loyalty is not based on the benefits, it is based on something much deeper.

• The what determines the how, but the how is determined by the why.

• Every employer wants to hire people that believe in their company, but how can they if the employer does not know the what and why. Knowing your why is the secret for hiring to fit.

• The why is an origin story. 

• If you can narrow down your why statement into one sentence, you will be more likely to remember it and to act on it. 

• A why statement is “To __________ so that __________” 

• The why is connected deeply to feelings.

• The why is to aspire to be who we truly are.

• People don’t buy what you do they buy why you do it.

• Gather stories that explain your why. The more specific the story is, the better. 

• When you live your why is when you’re most fulfilled. 

• You cannot have two why’s. If you are one why at work and another why at home, you are lying in one of the areas.

• Everyone has a why, the question is if you will be open enough with yourself to find it.

By Richard James 

• If you asked one hundred different entrepreneurs why they started a business, you’d probably get one hundred different answers, yet the common theme would be their passion. 

• If you had all the money you needed, what would you do with your time? What do you really love, what is your passion? 

• You must need a business plan to know who you are targeting what is your purpose. 

• Working from a fear of failure will give you a setback mindset. Many times it can become a self-proclaimed prophecy because you’re waiting for it to happen. 

• The initial startup of a company requires a lot of energy. 

• Starting a business does require finances, but it also requires a will to get the ball rolling.

• Pay more attention to the money going out than you do to the money coming in. If you only see what’s coming in, you will likely spend unwisely, and it will catch up to you.

• Live from your budget, not your income. 

• If you overextend yourself for too long, you will eventually burn out.

• Many people thrive at the beginning, but everyone has a breaking point.

• How do you know when to delegate? When you have so many things that take up your time that you cannot focus on your main responsibilities, you know it’s time to delegate. 

by Franz Martens 

• We end up worshiping the ministry of God rather than the God of Ministry!

• Missionaries and Pastors are especially susceptible to this problem. Dysfunction, and ultimately burnout, is the result.  

• Missionaries and pastors especially need to find safe people and places where they can rest, learn and grow. When we don’t have the right people in our lives, the potential for failure rises dramatically.

• Personality conflicts are very real and magnified in a mission context.

• Ministry is really about God’s work and our co-laboring together with Him. How do you measure how God is doing when the results are truly up to Him? When we try to do so, pressure mounts as predictably we fail.

• A missionary is often surrounded by people all day long and sometimes late into the night, yet meaningful relationships are often in short supply.

• It has been my experience that missionaries who make deep connections with co-workers or fellow believers in their host countries stay in the work much longer than those who remain lonely.

• We are the hands and feet of the Great Commission.

• Often those in ministry focus on their work and forget that it should be on Jesus Christ. Ministry flows out of relationship.

• It is in our moments of darkness that we somehow forget to rest in Christ.

by Ryan Holiday

• Your worst enemy lives inside of you. 

• Ego tells you what you want to hear when you want to hear it.

• You can think big without living and acting big.

• The attitude of being a student stops the ego.

• False ideas about yourself will destroy you. You must keep learning.

• The attitude of being an eternal student will keep you humble.

• Ego is the enemy because it lies and disconnects you from reality.

• Ego screams for you to indulge it. Do not let it distract you. 

• Ego causes you to be a victim of yourself. 

• Ego causes you to stop growing and learning.

• You cannot keep learning if you think you know everything. Ego wrecks you.

• Knowledge puffs up.

• You must manage yourself to maintain your success.

• Your ego might not cause you to fail, but it will prevent you from moving forward.

• Don’t let stubbornness make a bad situation even worse. 

• The bigger the ego, the harder the fall. 

• Ego usually causes the crash and stops you from improving. 

By Brandon Black & Shayne Hughes 

• Ego can be explained as a constant preoccupation with your self worth. 

• Avoiding and not telling the truth is not because we want the best for people, rather an ego issue of what we want people to think about us. 

• Offering security to those you work with will illuminate the ego factor. 

• Address issues openly and without judgment. 

• Being right is like a surge of electricity to a lightbulb. We like it so much that any collateral damage is worth it.

• Instead of defending, decide to learn more.

• Working on your ego is the highest act of leadership.

• When we make others good, we build a momentum of trust and inspiration.

• Think about contributing more than winning.

By Liz Elting

• No matter who you are, and where you are on your journey, there is always someone out there that can help you.

• If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. No one gives you something for nothing.

• Circumstances are temporary, but your attitude is permanent.

• No one will value you if you don’t first value yourself.

• Having a passion for what you do is very important.

• Passion releases creativity.

• A business or product name should be sticky (memorable), short, functional, and have a story behind it.

• You control your outcome by the amount of hours you put into work.

• Treating every client like your only client is the way to loyalty.

• Without risk, there’s no reward. You cannot win if you do not play.

• When in doubt, list it out. Write down the pros and cons to help you make life choices.

• Startups are worth the risks, but they are not worth your life.

• 82% of businesses fail because of cash flow problems.

• There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. – John F Kennedy

• If you want to dream big and win, you must grow and continue growing. Maintaining the status quo is never sufficient.

• You can’t reach a goal if you never set one.

• A Stanford study showed that those who wrote down their goals succeeded ten times over those who just had goals. 

• Most people get stuck on goal-setting. Goals do not work unless you have a plan of action and deadline. You must keep yourself accountable to achieve the goals.

• If you are going to win big, you must put in big effort. There’s nothing pretty about it.

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment – Jim Rohn

• Goals and accountability are half sides of the same coin. 

• When it comes to goal: say it, set it, do it, and then do it again.

• The moment you stop improving is the moment you stagnate.

• Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. — Muhammad Ali

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. – Henry Ford 

• If you stop taking risks, you abandon your potential growth. 

• Dress like the job that you want, not the job that you have. 

• Attitude is just as important as aptitude; maybe even more important. 

• Everyone encounters obstacles, but the most successful see them as opportunities to learn and grow.

• Taking ownership is one of the most sure ways to succeed. 

• You may have the greatest product on the market, but if you cannot sell it, it does no good.

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

• As you grow, you must remember to work on your business and not just in your business. Learn to delegate to focus on the big picture. 

• In leadership, you must learn 

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Passion.
            2. Prioritize.
            3. Pivot.
            4. Proactive.
            5. People. (Leadership can be boiled down to getting people on board)

• Attitude is as much, if not more, important than experience. 

• Hiring someone with integrity is not optional, it’s a must.