In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.
Interpretation
Challenges can be seen as opportunities rather than obstacles.
Frances Hesselbein emphasizes a positive mindset towards life's difficulties by reframing challenges as wonderful opportunities. Instead of viewing them as roadblocks, she suggests that we approach challenges with an open and optimistic attitude, allowing for growth and development through adversity.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience and personal growth.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.
The real leader redefines or defines the mission in a very powerful way so that people understand it; it permeates the organization.
Leadership is not a basket of tricks or strategies or skills that you pull out. Leadership begins with the quality of the person.
Social-sector organizations have to be better managed than for-profit organizations... because they have no margin of error.
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.
I think I'm not a natural-born salesman, for sure, but If I have a product I really believe in, I can overcome some of the shyness and get through the things that aren't natural to me.
There are always new, grander challenges to confront, and a true winner will embrace each one.
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.
There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.
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