Just One Push-Up, One Sit-Up and One Jumping Jack
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
- Dwyane Johnson
As I was hesitating to begin my daily mini-exercise routine this morning because I felt tired and sorry for myself, I was reminded of a story I heard many years ago.
An elderly man who seemed to defy aging walked into a gym.
In his early nineties, he still possessed a strong and lean frame with a powerful chest and biceps and triceps a teenager would be jealous of.
His legs and his back were as solid as tree trucks,...
Just One Push-Up, One Sit-Up and One Jumping Jack
“Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
- Dwyane Johnson
As I was hesitating to begin my daily mini-exercise routine this morning because I felt tired and sorry for myself, I was reminded of a story I heard many years ago.
An elderly man who seemed to defy aging walked into a gym.
In his early nineties, he still possessed a strong and lean frame with a powerful chest and biceps and triceps a teenager would be jealous of.
His legs and his back were as solid as tree trucks,...
Great Leaders Know Feelings Follow Behavior
“Behavior wags the tail of feelings…..We do, then we feel.”
- David Reynolds
How many times in your life have you said you will finally get to something that you have decided is important to complete when you “feel like it”? I know I have.
My weekly project list can be littered with things I have noted as important enough to have put my attention towards; but have remained incomplete. While some of our mundane tasks do not bring with them a penalty for their incompletion, the problem I see is we often apply this way of thinking to the things we have identified as being the most important in our lives to complete.
The phone call we...