Success Built to Last - Citation #9
August 15th, 2008 GuillaumeYour enduring success is not about following anybody else’s roadmap, goals, or achievements. It must be constructed on a foundation of very personal choices that only you can make.
Your enduring success is not about following anybody else’s roadmap, goals, or achievements. It must be constructed on a foundation of very personal choices that only you can make.
If you refuse to do something you believe in, you rmind will never leave you alone. It will torment you. If it really matters, you might as well get on with it despite the problems that will occur when you take on a new challenge.
What you do must matter deeply to you in a way that you as an individual define meaning. It’s something that you’re so passionate about that you lose all track of time when you do it. It’s something that you are willing to recruit other people to, but will do it despite criticism and perhaps even secretly do it for free.
Folks who chase a fantastic but vain hope for fame, wealth and power - for its own sake - may even achieve it, only to become miserable and pathetic people.
They have the audacity to take the initiative despite social pressures rather than because of them. They are more emotionnaly commited to doing what they love than being loved by others. They don’t wallow or obsess on a single defeat or rely on finding scapegoats or blame when things go wrong, but instead relentlessly place highest priority on being effective in getting the outcomes they are seeking.
Until you figure out what success means to you personally and to your organization, leadership is an almost pointless conversation.
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