I have been working in business for thirty years and have a successful career.
I started writing in addition to my career because I saw it as a way to reach and teach many more people than I could just one-on-one or speaking to groups. I still mentor, teach, and speak today and enjoy every opportunity but I also write a blog and have a following on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter where I share my thoughts on leadership. That was a big step for me to now reach over 10,000 people regularly.
Three years ago I published my first book, The Leadership GPS, and it became an Amazon Best Seller.
These have all been steps on my personal journey from good to great and I’m not done – I am in the process of writing my next book. You see, I call my goal from good to great, Change The World Through Leadership Now.
After each step towards my goal I could see the next step I needed to take. It is just like Nelson Mandela said, “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
I want to share with you the three steps I consistently take on my journey from good to great:
Sharpen your focus. Life can be full of issues that need to be resolved. We can get really good at managing them. Many of these issues are important and need your investment – it’s ok if you take care of them, just don’t let this become your life’s work. Keep focused on your good to great goal and get back to it regularly – and if you can, perhaps you can use solving the issues as part of your good to great goal.
“Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.” – Jim Collins, Good to Great
Accomplish small steps. Great things are rarely achieved with the first try. It’s a process that builds on itself. With each small step of success ask yourself “What’s next?” And use what you’ve built to reach the next step.
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
Finish with great. Great is a life-long dream. Believe you will reach it and keep climbing. No matter how many times you may slip, pick yourself up, learn from what happened and get going again.
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill
