In a recent newspaper interview, best selling recording artist Tina Arena was asked the secret of her success. She responded, ‘There is no secret. Half of it is in the discernment to surround yourself with people who have good intentions. That’s something that’s taken me a long time, but now I finally feel the people I choose to go to battle with are all wearing the same armour.’
So when it comes to surrounding yourself with a winning team, let’s have a look at the two ingredients that make up the qualities of those team members.
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I remember someone sharing a story about momentum with me once….
‘It was in the 1800’s, and an old man was standing at the new railway station watching as the steam engine was starting to shoot puffs of steam up and into the air. He muttered under his breath to his companion, ‘They’ll never get it started. They’ll never get it started.’
Then the whistle blew and the powerful engine began to turn its wheels. The seemingly immovable monstrosity started to edge forward little by little until it picked up further speed, and before long the only evidence of its existence were the billowing puffs of smoke that could be faintly seen in the distance.
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Vulnerability is an amazing place to be. Is it a nice place? Not at all. But it is a choice place.
It is a place where you can choose to hide under a rock, or a place where you can stand on the mountain top and declare, ‘I may be vulnerable. I may be on my last legs. Opportunity may seem to be avoiding me at every turn, but I choose to stand up in my nakedness, stripped of all pride and potential, in the eyes of others, and yet I hold on to a number of assets that to me are worth millions: character, integrity, talents, gifts, ideas, and of course my dream.’
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When you purchase a real estate property you purchase it within some physical boundaries that have been laid out by the designers of the plot. And it is with that same clarity that you need to set boundaries for your own life.
In the design of your life it is important to consider those things that you will allow in your life, as well as those things that you will not allow. By ascertaining these things early in your life, confusion will have no hold on the decision making processes that you are faced with on a regular basis.
When in business you too need to determine the boundaries within which you will conduct your business, whether it be the terms and conditions of doing business, the way you collect payments, the way you deliver your product and services, the way you deal with complaints or even the way you conduct customer service.
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Traversing by plane from the Gold Coast to Adelaide, the land below resembles a patch work quilt of light browns and dark greens that spread in a beautiful pattern all the way to the far horizon.
And as I look at the earth below I am reminded of the eagle. I am so pleased that I have, even through the tough times, sought to gain an eagle’s perspective on life in preference to living a turkey’s scratched out existence.
And even when I have at times felt that I have been literally physically scratching around in the dirt, I have continued to mentally and spiritually see myself as an eagle catching those warm rising currents and have found myself thinking high thoughts rather than low thoughts.
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