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.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
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