Tag: Adaptation

Why Passion Is Not Enough

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Work today like no one else will so you can live tomorrow like no one else can.’

‘No one will value you if you don’t first value yourself.’

‘You’re never going to advance if you allow yourself to slide. … The ability to drive yourself past your comfort zone is the difference between a person who can run incredibly fast and an Olympic athlete.’

‘Say it, set it, do it. And then do it again!’

‘The moment you stop improving is the moment you stagnate.’

‘If we just show up when others don’t and outwork everyone else, we can accomplish great things in this world.’

‘When you can create exactly what your client needs without them even having to ask, price becomes an afterthought.’

‘Never forget that you are your own greatest resource. When you work harder than most, the world is there for the taking… and then, the changing.’

‘No one can toot your own horn like you can.’

‘Attitude is just as important as aptitude, possibly even more so.’

‘Where does the buck stop?

Source:

Liz Elting (2024). Dream Big and Win: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion-Dollar Business

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Facing Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Your reality is your own reality. You are the only one who can change it.

If you like your reality, live it. If you do not like your reality, do something about it.

Don’t just talk about it. Do something about it.

‘Machines wear down and die. Living systems, if they learn and adapt, do not.’

‘A healthy living system is an intelligent learner. It can adapt and survive even though its environment is moving toward increasing disorder. But it must be actively engaged and aware, never losing focus on its environment. Failing to pay attention and adapt is a prescription for death.’

‘Sane leadership is the commitment to create the conditions for the finest human capacities- generosity, creativity, kindness- to blossom, protected from the external environment. It is the deep knowing that, even in the most dire circumstances, more becomes possible engage together with compassion and discernment, self-determining their best way forward.’

‘Once a system has tipped, it cannot reverse back to its former state. We need to learn to live with it, to adapt. And this is not always possible.’

‘A Warrior for the Human Spirit is a decent human being willing to serve an inhumane, indecent time.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatney (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity