Tag: Why

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Choose To Win

By Tom Ziglar (summary by Jeffrey Bush)

  • Everyone needs a clearly defined “why.”
  • Its important you clarify your “why” (why are doing it), and when you do it opens
    doors to your “what” (what you do) and transform your “how” (how you do
    everything).
  • Hope is born when you realize you have the power to make things better or worse.
  • See your past as the reason to move forward and not the reason to quit.
  • The time you are in the furnace is preparing you for significance.
  • Attitude is a reflection of character, and character is a reflection of habit.
  • The opposite of entitlement is gratitude.
  • Your past is important, but not as important as you see your future.
  • A habit is simply a small choice you’ve chosen to do over and over
  • When your “why” is big enough, the sacrifice is worth it.
  • Living to win is a choice. What choices are you going to make that will transform
    you?
  • The fastest way to change bad habits is to begin doing good habits.
  • Persistent consistency is the answer to improvement in almost any area of your life
  • Become an intentional noticer. Pay attention to the positive details, and let others
    know.
  • The words we say to our children today will be the constant whispers they hear in
    the future.
  • It is not negative to identify problems. It is only negative if all you do is dwell on the
    problems.
  • Do not be afraid of being uncomfortable. In fact, a good leader learns to be
    comfortable with being uncomfortable.
  • Clarity helps you make the right choices and take the right actions.
  • You can determine beforehand that you will respond positively to setbacks that come
    your way.
  • If you do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will get paid more for what
    you do. — Zig Ziglar
  • Doing a job well is a combination of attitude, effort, and skill.
  • Attitudes either bring energy or deplete energy.
  • Effort is hustle with smarts.
  • Words of encouragement never get old.
  • A great attitude drives effort and skill.
  • Decide that today is the day you will take control of your most valuable asset, which
    is your attitude.
  • One thing is certain, if you never take the first step, then you will never take the
    second step.
  • Change begins with you, but it does not start until you start.
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Start With Why Book Review by Jeff Bush

By Simon Sinek

  • There are leaders and those that lead. Leaders hold influence and inspire others.
  • 80% of people say they do not have their dream job. 
  • There’s only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or inspire it.
  • Most companies do not know why their customers are their customers, they erroneously think it’s because they have better quality. 
  • Every company knows what they do, that is easy to detect. Some companies have figured out the how. Very few companies have figured out the why – their purpose and belief, the reason they exist.
  • Every company or individual that is successful works from the inside out, they have figured out why they do what they do.
  • What a company does is obvious but the why is the real success.
  • People do not buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
  • Knowing your why is not the only way to be successful, but it is the only way to maintain a lasting success.
  • When your why goes fuzzy it is much harder to maintain the growth, loyalty and inspiration that gave your original success.
  • Detecting your why will help others that have the same feeling. 
  • A failure to communicate your why only causes frustration.
  • Great leaders start with the heart before the mind, they start with the why.
  • When a company does not know their why, it is impossible for the outside world to understand it.
  • Everything you say and do comes from your why. Your why is a belief. 
  • When a salesman believes in what he’s selling, there will be more sales. 
  • If you know the why, you’ll know what decisions to make. 
  • Trust is a feeling, not a rational experience. 
  • Leading is not the same as being a leader. 
  • Great companies don’t hire skilled people and motivate them, they hire people who are already motivated and equip them.