Category: Personal Development

10 Powerful Practical Business Wisdom From Dave Ramsey

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When it comes to getting better, to knowing more, you do not know what you do not know.

To know more, to learn from other people’s mistakes, you must be willing to learn from others.

To do that, according to Dave Ramsey, ‘We don’t make decisions based on fear.’

‘You can count on criticism if you do anything of scale that matters. You can’t be afraid of criticism. It comes with the territory.’

‘You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.’

‘When you pour out yourself and your company in the marketplace you will begin to win, and as you win, expect criticism and complaints.’

‘Activity and success make rejection and nonfatal failure easier to work through emotionally.’

‘When you work with fired-up, talented people who love what they do, you have more fun than trying to gather a bunch of turkeys together and whip some work out of them.’

‘When someone is failing you should start by determining the root cause of the failure.’

‘Always treat people with dignity and be generous as you set them free, but have the courage to do so and you will actually be friends with some of the people you go through that process with.’

‘We don’t shoot our wounded. When we have mercy and give kindness to our team members who is legitimately hurting, we build huge loyalty with the rest of the team.’

‘Every day every behavior, attitude, and execution has to be led well by a courageous, loving leader.’

‘Have the courage to do the right thing, the right way, at the right time, and you will be on your way to becoming an EntreLeader.’

Source:

Dave Ramsey (2011). EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches

Creating A Better Future

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Who are you? What do you want? And where do you want to go? If you know what you want, where you want to go, are you getting closer? If not, why?

If you want to create a better future for yourself, you have got to prove it to yourself. You have got to do things differently.

When you do the same thing, you will get the same thing. When you prove it to yourself that you are capable of making things happen, you will land in a whole new place.

According to Johnny Wimbrey, ‘Prove to yourself that you value your future, and commit to seeing that feeling of value come to fruition.’

‘You are the only one who decides whether you are going to give up and make excuses about it or execute your dream and participate in your own rescue.’

‘You cannot respond until you have faith in yourself and your ability to succeed. Success should be a foregone conclusion. Be faithful to your future self in your actions today.’

‘You will never learn to value yourself and your efforts if you let the Instigators and Spectators infect your life, your goals, and your mindset.’

‘You cannot handle all this nay-saying if you don’t have faith in your dream. Use these negative opinions to build up that faith and strengthen your character.’

‘No one is qualified to push my vision into reality except me.’

‘No one will take a risk on you if you aren’t willing to put yourself and your self-worth on the line.’

‘Without the right character in place and without knowing who you are and what you are capable of, you will never achieve and maintain true success.’

‘You must participate in your own rescue.’

‘Do you have the tenacity and commitment to find someone you deserve?’

‘Someone else’s mentality has nothing to do with your reality.’

Source:

Johnny Wimbrey (2021). Building a Millionaire Mindset: How to Use the Pillars of Entrepreneurs to Gain, Maintain, and Sustain Long-Lasting Wealth