The 7 Major Mistakes in Leadership

Leadership can apply to different areas in your life, whether you are managing a team of people for your company, managing a family, starting your own business or leading a sports team. It’s important to be aware of the 7 major causes for bad leadership and how avoiding one or more of these mistakes can be the key that takes you to a higher level of success in your career, business, and personal goals.

1. Unable to Empower Others

Perhaps the most significant quality of a good leader is the ability to influence, motivate, train and grow other people. A great leader who focuses on training his team can multiply his efforts, instead of one person (yourself) with the skills to do something, you will now have a whole team. It’s universal knowledge that people get more money for their ability to get others to perform, than they can by doing something on their own. A leader who cannot increase the efficiency and effectiveness of others has failed his purpose as a leader. Read more

Why 80% of Success is Showing Up

Many of you are probably familiar with the Woody Allen quote

“80% of success is showing up.”

Even though this is such an obvious truth, this qoute can be a great way of re-aligning your perspective with different activities in your life. This can apply to your career, relationships, education and health.

Here are 3 ways why showing up can increase your chances of success immensely.

1. It turns your ideas into tangible actions
It’s super easy to generate ideas and start day dreaming of the things you want to accomplish. We can literally think about what we wish for all day. But the act of showing up is a turning point where that idea can become a reality. Your action of showing up is now tangible; meaning that you can feel, experience and touch it. Read more

Eliminate the Escape Routes to Increase Motivation

How important are your goals? Will you do everything possible to achieve them?

If your goals and dreams are truly important to you, then you should do what it takes for you to push, motivate and move closer to your goals. You will have to make a very serious commitment.

Perhaps one the most effective ways to make this commitment is to eliminate any escape routes that give you an opening to quit or go back.

By keeping those escape routes open, you are allowing yourself to say that it’s ok to turn back. And when it becomes difficult, as it does for any worthwhile goal, you will quit.

Eliminating the escape routes will ensure your success. Here are three popular metaphors that best describe this powerful philosophy:

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