Category: Personal Development

How To Maximize Every Day

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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To use your time wisely, to make your day count, you must focus on what matters to you.

‘If you do not decide how your day will be spent, someone else will.’

‘Your greatest possession is the twenty-four hours you have directly ahead of you. How will you spend it?’

‘If you want to be become a great thinker, you first need to become a good thinker.’

‘To become a good thinker, do more thinking.’

‘Ideas, put into action, give an advantage.’

‘Anything worth having is going to be a struggle. Commitment doesn’t come easy, but when you’re fighting for something you believe in, the struggle is worth it.’

‘Don’t make assumptions, and don’t try to be like someone else.’

‘If you are experiencing difficulties, allow yourself to explore faith in response to it.’

‘Faith gives you peace and strength only if it’s not superficial.’

‘The best way to help people is to see the best in them.’

John Maxwell (2004). Make Today Count: The Secret of Your Success Is Determined by Your Daily Agenda

How To Win In Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Winning is a team sport. No one can win alone in life. If you want to win in life and in business, you must surround yourself with great people.

Great people are winners. They do not settle for small. And they want to be around other winners.

According to John Maxwell,’Success does not always bring growth, but personal growth will always add to our success.’

‘Improvement doesn’t come to people who fixate on quick fixes. It comes to the slow but steady people who keep working at getting better.’

‘Security does not take us forward.’

‘You’ll never get anywhere interesting if you always do the safe thing. You must surrender to improve.’

‘Living to your potential requires you to keep learning and expanding yourself.’

‘If you want to be successful tomorrow, then you must be teachable today.’

‘… if you resist change, you are trading your potential to grow for your comfort. No change means no growth.‘

‘If you want to be a growing person, you need to spend time with growing people.’

‘If you want to be someone who embraces positive change, you need to hang around with positive learners.’

‘If you want to win, you need to change.’

Source:

John Maxwell (2015). How Successful People Win: Turn Every Setback Into a Step Forward