The key to successful coaching is having great clients. If they don’t care, don’t waste your time. They’re not going to get better at anything they don’t care about changing.

When you focus on what you can control, engagement becomes a personal choice—not something dictated by your environment.

Achieve for the sake of achieving. If something is important to you, go for it. Strive, grow, accomplish. Be happy for the sake of being happy. Don’t assume achievement will bring happiness—it won’t.

Many qualities of effective leadership were seen as being important for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Characteristics like vision, integrity, focus on results and ensuring customer satisfaction were seen as factors that were critical in the past and will be so in the future.

One of the most powerful leadership tools is positive recognition—and it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or effort to be effective.

Every day before I go to work, I do one thing — I tell myself it’s showtime.

Once we get over whining because ‘life isn’t fair’ – we can become more effective at influencing others, making a positive difference!

As we go through each day, we unconsciously weigh the risks and rewards of our additions. We may decide to order the dessert, weighing the risk of eating too much against the joy of eating a lemon tart. We may weigh the reward of taking a shortcut to work against the risk of the traffic jams that can snarl that route sometimes. 

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Leaders often fall into the trap that they “need to delegate” more. For some reason, they’ve been led to believe that delegation is always a good thing. It’s not!