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You Have Been Lied To-Sweat the Small Stuff!

16Nov

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You Have Been Lied To-Sweat the Small Stuff!

In the late 90s, there was a popular book that told you to not sweat the small stuff. When it comes to leadership or self help the path to tremendous results includes sweating the small stuff. If you are looking to improve results or yourself there is only one way to drive improvement and growth. The secret to success is to repeatedly do ordinary things that ultimately produce extraordinary results. Discipline is what produces results! Defining discipline and what it really means is challenging. Discipline is doing what you said you were going to do long after the feeling you had when you committed to this task has gone away. In life, it is common to get excited and dive into something when following somebody else’s enthusiasm and passion. It is when that feeling of enthusiasm and passion ...

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As I began my journey as a new principal this past year there were many things that were on my radar as essential pieces to leading a team. We were starting off the year in a virtual environment and there were natural barriers to building trust with a new team in the virtual world. Trust is the most important piece of leadership with a team because out of trust comes the confidence to take on challenges, collaborate to overcome challenges and the common desire to achieve results. In any line of work, you and an organization are only as strong as the relationships that make up the organization, and trust is the bedrock of any healthy relationship. I began to research what trust means and as usual I migrated to my resources around leadership and the plethora of content out there on leadershi...

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