The best businesspeople have a hunger to make their todays better than their yesterdays. They have a staggeringly large appetite for pushing the envelope.
— Robin S. Sharma
There is a cure for anti-aging that actually works - it's called lifelong learning.
Inner improvements create outer ones.
The relationship that tests/frustrates/irritates you the most actually is one of your greatest blessings. Why? Because it reveals to you the very beliefs/fears and false assumptions that most limit you.
I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.
This beautiful, messy, wonderful and volatile world of ours needs more heroes.
We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.
Forgiveness isn't just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.
Knowing what to say, in the right way - at the perfect moment - can mean the difference between a world-class life and an average one.
Each of us, every day, through the jobs we do, are offered a shot at greatness, an opportunity to reach immortality.
Every one of us wakes up in the morning, walks out into the world, and does the best we can do based on what we know and the skills we have.
Epic production has less to do with your willpower and more to do with the routines you install. Get those right, and you'll enjoy exponential results automatically.
I believe it's strikingly important to remember that when you know better, you can do better. With higher levels of awareness, you can make smarter choices. And the more clarity you get as to who you want to become, the quicker you can start making the choices need to get you there.
Much of my life has been a devotion to a simple expression: you can Lead Without a Title.
Help others reach world-class. And they'll joyfully help you get to your best.
Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.
Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions.
Success is seductive. It can make one complacent and inefficient and stale.
The project you are most scared to do is the one that holds your greatest growth.
Please remember that as you become a more extraordinary human being, every element of your outer world must change accordingly. Just has to. So the more remarkable you become, the more remarkable will be the professional and personal life you'll create.
When I need to complete a project of primary importance, I'm around nature a lot.
You can't do the finest work of your career staying in your city.
Leaders listen. Staggeringly well.
We are shaped by our conversations.
We do become our conversations. We really will become our associations.
I love great quotes.
Simple idea with powerful consequences: everyone who intersects your life knows something you don't.
So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.
My encouragement: delete the energy vampires from your life, clean out all complexity, build a team around you that frees you to fly, remove anything toxic, and cherish simplicity. Because that's where genius lives.
If you've tried everything possible to get an outcome, and it just hasn't worked out as planned, stop trying so hard. Relax. Maybe the timing's not right. Maybe it wasn't in your best interests. Maybe while one door seems to be closing, another is opening.
Most people in business and within their personal lives move towards complexity. More To Dos. More projects. More products. More meetings. More possessions. More goals. The best - I suggest to you - move in the opposite direction.
You need to give to get. Give support to get it. Give praise to receive it. Give your best to get your wishes. Give more love to be beloved. Give to get.
True, foolish risks can lead to difficult consequences. But having said that, don't be so scared of failure and disappointment that you fail to dream.
I wish for a world that gets that your 'I Can' is exponentially more important than your IQ.
The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds.
Transcending what terrifies you and finding freedom from fear is one of the primary pursuits of people rising to world-class, both in their work and within their lives.
The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.
You can't become a history-maker stuck in tiny thinking. You just can't.
People want to be a part of an organization that lets them be fully alive and bring their gifts to work. People really do want to be engaged and feel proud of their contribution.
Listening is a master skill for personal and professional greatness.
You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.
Whether you lead a nation, an enterprise, a community, or a family, we are all in the communication business.
As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and strangers. And we lead our industry.
To get to world-class, don't miss any opportunity to leverage the learning/insights/experiences of the people you meet. Because we really do become our conversations.
Success is ever so dangerous. Once you rise to success, it's so easy to stop doing the things that made you successful.
Your performance in the world is simply the result of the things you believe.
One of the core organizing principles of my life is that success comes through a delicate balance between making things happen and letting things happen.
One of my favorite books is 'Man's Search for Meaning.'
The world needs many more dreamers. Unreasonable souls who fight the urge to be ordinary.
Most of the things we are afraid will happen never do. Something to think about.
