Today Matters People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday. And you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s...
To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself. If
To achieve any worthy goal, you must take risks. Amelia Earhart believed that, and her advice when it came to risk was simple and direct: Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If...
Though you cannot go backand make a brand new start, my friend.Anyone can start from nowand make a brand new end.
Thomas Jefferson observed, A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle. That is the real nature of partnership. I find that many people don’t think that way. They believe that sharing means l...
This poster in a Nordstrom’s department store once caught my attention: The only difference between stores is the way they treat their customers. That’s a bold statement. Most stores would advertise t...
They practice daily disciplines. They implement systems for their personal growth. They make it a habit to maintain a positive attitude. At the very least, these things keep their personal momentum go...
There is nothing more tragic than when a Christian leader loses God’s anointing on his life by allowing himself to become sidetracked. There is no higher violation of God’s trust. For when a leader st...
There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.
There is a great deal of difference between knowing and understanding. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
There are three questions you need to ask and answer to test your readiness to be a catalyst for significance, Jim replied. They are: Can you be the best in the world at what you do? Are you passionat...
There are really only three kinds of people. Those who don’t succeed, those who achieve success temporarily, and those who become and remain successful. Character is the only way to sustain success.
The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. Influence is an invitation anyone can make to another person.
The problem with popular thinking is that it doesn’t require you to think at all. —Kevin Myers
The bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others.
The book you don’t read can’t help you; the seminar you won’t attend can’t change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.
The beauty of trust is that it erases worry and frees you to get on with other matters. Trust means confidence.
The Parable of the Lost Sheep 10Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that in heaven their angels always see the face of My Father who is in heaven. 11For the So...
The English word thanks comes from the same root word as think. Maybe if leaders were more thinkful about the contribution of others, they would be more thankful to them.
The Cost and Expectation of Leadership Leviticus 7:33–35 Aaron, like many leaders throughout history, received a divine calling. God chose Aaron and his sons to serve as Israel’s priests and charged t...