UNDERLINE this principle in life and success will be yours – How to take initiative?


​Our basic nature is to act, and not be acted upon. As well as enabling us to choose our response to particular circumstances, this empowers us to create circumstances. Taking initiative does not mean being pushy, obnoxious, or aggressive. It does mean recognizing our responsibility to make things happen…
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Too many priorities PARALYZE us – John C. Maxwell


#success #leadership #priorities #work
Every one of us has looked at our desks filled with memos and papers, heard the phone ringing, and watched the door open all at the same time! Remember the “frozen feeling” that came over William H. Hinson tells us why animal trainers carry a stool when they go into a cage of lions. They have their whips, of course, and their pistols are at their sides. But invariably they also carry a
stool. Hinson says it is the most important tool of the trainer….

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What really is LEADERSHIP – John C. Maxwell


Everyone talks about it; few understand it. Most people want it;
few achieve it. There are over fifty definitions and descriptions of it in my personal files. What is this intriguing subject we call
“leadership”?
Perhaps because most of us want to be leaders we become emotionally involved when trying to define leadership. Or, perhaps because we know one, we try to copy his or her behavior and describe leadership as a personality.
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