“There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses.”
Ken Blanchard
Management expert and author of The One Minute Manager
“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”
Harriet Martineau
English writer and philosopher
“Every great man was once a nobody prepared for opportunity.”
Dorothy Tode
Everyone wants to win but only a few are willing to put in the preparation and training time needed to achieve greatness. The pinnacle event we often observe as marking an individual or team’s success represents only a small fraction of the blood, sweat, and tears required to reach that summit.
Do you want to win? The truth lies with the answer to another question… Are you doing everything necessary today to make yourself mentally and physically capable of winning tomorrow?
Are you prepared to achieve greatness?
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Albert Einstein is arguably one of the greatest problem solvers of all time. Whether examining a physical phenomenon or business challenge his thoughts on problem solving are timelessly applicable. Below are some of these philosophies:
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
“It takes a higher order of thinking to fix a problem than that which created it.”
and
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”
Albert Einstein
Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity
“The past is an experience! The present is an experiment! The future is expectations! Use your experience in your experiment to achieve your expectations!”
Some of life’s greatest lessons come through failure… and greatness is often born in the rising from the ashes.
Everyone experiences personal and professional disappointments and setbacks. Those taking the time to critically and objectively examine and learn from their mistakes, applying those learnings to future endeavors, will inevitably be more successful. This truth is embodied by those from all walks of life who in their respective fields have achieved great success.
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity
“You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”
Wayne Gretzky
National Hockey League Hall of Famer and winner of:
four Stanley Cup Championships
nine Hart Trophies as the most valuable player
ten Art Ross Trophies for most points in a season
five Lady Byng Trophies for sportsmanship and performance
five Lester B. Pearson Awards and
and two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP
Michael Jordan
National Basketball Association Hall of Famer, winner of:
6 NBA Championships
Rookie of the Year
5 NBA MVP Awards
6 NBA Finals MVP Awards
10 All-NBA First Team
9 NBA All-Defensive First Team
Defensive Player of the Year
14 NBA All-Star Awards
3 NBA All-Star MVP Awards
50th Anniversary All-Time Team
10 scoring titles — an NBA record and seven consecutive matching Wilt Chamberlain
Retired with the NBA’s highest scoring average of 30.1ppg
and
whose NBA website biography reads: “By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time.“
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