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King on The Greatest Challenge
“One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.”
–Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)
American civil rights leader
Nobel Peace Prize winner
Do your actions…
- create a positive buzz about you and your work?
- make others want you as a part of their team?
- make your employer cringe at the thought of losing you to a competitor?
- make your customers excited about referring you to their colleagues?
You want your actions to scream value without the need for you to say a word. This is where you want to be – with those in your company and industry – and with those to whom you’re selling.
This is what creates true economic and job security – the value you and your team create for others.
This is care (what it’s all about).
When you have the opportunity over the next few days, set a reminder to review these four questions at the end of each month. Then, give yourself a little (objective) attention by reviewing them and creating an action plan to improve in each area where you feel you should.
Easier said than done… still needs to be done.
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Voltaire on Being Brilliant
“Shun idleness. It is the
rust that attaches itself to the
most brilliant metals.”
–Voltaire (1694–1778)
French writer, essayist and philosopher
Are you sitting on brilliance (waiting for a better day, week, month, year, time to make the call)?
Be careful to invest your money hours wisely. Time is the only thing you can never get back.
Sure… There are lottery winners. But that’s not the way to bet.
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Huxley on The Big Picture
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
–Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
English biologist and educator
What if…
John and Abigail Adams had been more concerned with themselves and work/life balance than creating a democracy (if you’ve not seen the HBO miniseries – great stuff)?
What if… Abraham Lincoln (born on 2/12) had quit trying after having a business go under and losing his first local legislative race (and then 3 congressional races and 2 senatorial races)?
What if… Martin Luther King didn’t have a dream and played it safe (and didn’t travel over 6 million miles giving more than 2,500 speeches). What if he thought he was too young to have an impact (he did everything he did in a life of only 39 years)?
What if… Gandhi, Teresa, Roosevelt, Ford, Disney, Walton, Gates, Winfrey, Jobs, Stewart, and Ash hadn’t stepped up and worked hard. (What if the thousands of people who supported them hadn’t?) What if your police, military, firefighters didn’t?
What if… No one pushed it, risked it, and pushed it again (and again)?
Be obligated to your world (your customers, your people). Be SalesTough.
Frank on Sparks and Possibility
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
–Anne Frank (1929–1945)
Dutch diarist
“Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.”
Studs Terkel (1912–2008)
American writer, journalist, broadcaster
Pulitzer Prize winner
Everything begins with our attitude toward our work – to how we contribute. We should be sure to guard and nurture that attitude.
Terkel’s bestselling book Working was published 37 years ago as an oral history of “people talking about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do”.