The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
Marcus BuckinghamRead
Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.
Interpretation
Building a strong life requires consistent effort in shaping each moment.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively creating our lives through deliberate choices and actions at every moment. It suggests that a fulfilling and successful life is the result of ongoing reflection and intentional design, encouraging individuals to take charge of their experiences and outcomes.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth, one could say, 'As Marcus Buckingham wisely notes, your strongest life is built through continuous practice of designing moment by moment.'
The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.
There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.
Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.
Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.
No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player'.
When I came to New York in 1978, I was a full-time school teacher and track runner, and determined to retire from competitive running. But winning the New York City Marathon kept me running for another decade.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.