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If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

John C. Maxwell

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.
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Ability Better Direction Failure Learning Mistake
All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.
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Confidence Feeling Goodness Leadership People
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
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Choice God Journey Yourself
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
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Animal Decision Funny Life
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you’re not failing, you’re probably not really moving forward.
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Achievement Adversity Dreams Failure Life Yourself
Every time you make a mistake, don’t bring up everything that’s wrong with yourself; tell yourself that you’re paying the price for growth and that you will learn to do better next time. Every positive thing you can say to yourself will help.
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Better Growth Learning Mistake Pay Price Time Wrong Yourself
Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand.
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Hands Heart Leadership Touch
Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others
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Empowerment Leadership Rich Yourself
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.
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God Live Need People Yourself
The difference between where we are and where we want to be is created by the changes we are willing to make in our lives. When you want something you’ve never had, you must do something you’ve never done to get it.
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Change Creation Difference Inspirational Journey Live Ourselves Path Yourself
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don’t wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.
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Big Commitment Dreams Give Up Growth Happiness Inspirational Opportunity Planning Priority Sacrifice Success Wait Willing
If you wait until you feel like doing something, you will likely never accomplish it.
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Accomplishment Action Feeling Patience Wait Yourself
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
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Beyond Control Leadership Live Management Priority Time
Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.
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Change Failure Need Planning Vision Yourself
To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.
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Character Deep Head Heart Leadership

If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they’re likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

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