How To Win In Life

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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

How Great Leaders Build Winning Teams

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Winners like to work with other winners. If you want to build a great business, you must hire the best. Because only the best can give you the best.

When you hire average, you get average. When you hire the best, you get the best. When you are around the best, you attract more excellent people into your world.

‘Work on your people, not for your people.’

‘Great leaders aren’t necessarily great coaches, but great coaches are great leaders.’

‘Complacency can be just as dangerous to the team’s morale as negativity.’

‘Managers spend too much time with the people who need the attention instead of those who deserve the attention.’

‘The way to move the middle up is to chop off the bottom and grow the top.’

A true game plan needs consistent reviewing, adjustments, and updates.’

‘We will do only what we are held accountable to do.’

‘Just because it has never been done doesn’t mean it can’t be done.’

‘Challenges make you go bigger.’

‘What makes you great is not what you’ve been doing for fifteen years- what makes you great is you.’

Source:

Nathan Jamail (2014). The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business Teams