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Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?

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Waiting for the 100 percent right and certain solution leads to delay, indecision, and an inability to execute.
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Leadership is simple, but not easy.
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Easy Leadership Simplicity
Good leaders don’t make excuses.
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Goodness Leadership One Liner
Leadership isn’t one person leading a team. It is a group of leaders working together, up and down the chain of command, to lead.
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Leadership Person Team Togetherness
So how can a leader become great if they lack the natural characteristics necessary to lead? The answer is simple: a good leader builds a great team that counterbalances their weaknesses.
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Greatness Leadership Necessary Simplicity Team Weakness
leadership is the single greatest factor in any team’s performance.
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Leadership Team
The U.S. Navy SEAL Teams were at the forefront of this leadership transformation, emerging from the triumphs and tragedies of war with a crystallized understanding of what it takes to succeed in the most challenging environments that combat presents.
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Challenge Leadership Present Success Team Tragedy Transformation Understand War Win
Get after it.
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Inspirational One Liner
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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We wrote this so that the leadership lessons can continue to impact teams beyond the battlefield in all leadership situations—any company, team, or organization in which a group of people strives to achieve a goal and accomplish a mission.
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Motivation is fickle. It comes and goes.
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Motivational One Liner
There is no growth in the comfort zone.
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Comfortable Growth One Liner
Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.
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Control Inspirational Mindset Yourself
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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And the more you build your will by doing hard things, the stronger your will becomes.
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Remember: the enemy gets a vote.
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Is this what I want to be? This? Is this all I’ve got—is this everything I can give? Is this going to be my life? Do I accept that?

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