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When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

John C. Maxwell

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can’t do that if you don’t take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.
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Action Blame Failure Improvement Learning Mistake People Potential Problem Responsibility Simplicity Yourself
Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.
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Desire Gift Guide Natural Vision Yourself
Do something you hate every day, just for the practice.
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Hate Practice Yourself
It’s said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others’ mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others’s successes.
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Learning Mistake Person Success Wisdom
The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.
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Big Development Focus Goodness Leadership Organization People Potential Way
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.
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Determination Easy Encouragement Herself Himself Person Yourself
Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.
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Influence Investment Leadership People Start Time 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
Discipline – Success doesn’t just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.
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Discipline Intention Success
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
Nothing speaks like results. If you want to build the kind of credibility that connects with people, then deliver results before you deliver a message. Get out and do what you advise others to do. Communicate from experience.
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Advice Build Communication Connection Experience Kind People Result Talk Yourself
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.
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Attitude Feeling People Word Yourself
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.
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Influence Leadership Life Position
The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.
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Animal Decision Funny Life
Never underestimate the power of an encouraging word.
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Encouragement Power Word
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

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