goals – Page 4 – Doug Dickerson on Leadership

Leadership Minute: Keep Reaching

Posted November 29, 2013
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If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. – Zig Ziglar

Leaders must be careful not to miss this important point. Too often they only see the goal or the reward of reaching their goal but they miss the reaching. The reaching is where goals become reality. Reaching is where dreams come alive. The reaching is where the sweat equity is built that produces the reward. Reaching is about sacrifices made, it’s about self-denial and delayed gratification. Reaching is the discipline of the leader. When you develop your reaching skills then everything else will eventually work itself out. Don’t stop dreaming. Don’t stop setting goals. And never stop reaching!

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Leadership Minute: Are You Setting New Goals?

Posted July 18, 2013
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John Patrick Hickey said, “The practice of goal setting gives us the vision to expect more in life than just the occasional victory. Once we stop setting new goals we find that we have no place to go and action stops.” Setting goals is essential to your survival as a leader. Goals give you a vision of your future and a purpose worth pursuing. Goal setting is a measurable way of tracking your passions that will guide you in the good times and motivate you in the bad times. Do you need a fresh vision for where you are going? Set new goals and live out new dreams!

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Musical Chairs

Posted July 17, 2012
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Famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti shares a story from when he was a child growing up that made a great impact upon his life. Pavarotti says, “When I was a boy, my father, a baker, introduced me to the wonders of song. He urged me to work very hard to develop my voice. Arrigo Pola, a professional tenor in my hometown of Modena, Italy took me as a pupil. I also enrolled in a teachers college. On graduating, I asked my father, ‘Shall I be a teacher or a singer?’

‘Luciano,’ my father replied, ‘if you try to sit on two chairs, you will fall between them. For life, you must choose one chair.’

“I chose one. It took seven years of study and frustration before I made my first professional appearance. It took another seven to reach the Metropolitan Opera. And now I think whether it’s laying bricks- writing a book—whatever we choose, we should give ourselves to it. Commitment, that’s the key. Choose one chair.”

Had Pavarotti made the choice to teach, I believe he would have succeeded. The point is, you must find the one chair that is right for you and stick to it. Leadership has many demands and challenges, and your responsibility is to not fall between the chairs. Have you chosen your chair?

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