Here are 11 quotes for the start of 2011. Share one or more with your team on Monday. Use to start a discussion, lay a foundation, plant seed for culture change. All can help you do what strong leaders do: take charge, make things happen and inspire others to do the same.
1. “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.” Ellen Goodman
2. “Take a moment to stop and think about what you give to the people and life around you. Don’t think about what you’re not doing right. Look instead at all you do that is a blessing. Many of us continually beat ourselves up for not doing or being enough. But imagine for a moment that you are great just as you are. Feel the relief this brings! Now open to the possibility that this is not a daydream. It’s true! Believe it!” John & Patrice Robson
3. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” Hal Borland
4. “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
5. “For fulfillment, we need to take our lives off autopilot. We need to consciously decide what we will and will not do, moment by moment. We need to give ourselves the space, support and freedom to be proactive in choosing how we live each day.” John & Patrice Robson
6. “Whether one is 20, 40 or 60; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! Each morning is the open door to a new world–new vistas, new aims, new tryings.” Leigh Mitchell Hodges
7. “Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” Marie Beyon Ray
8. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in finding new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust
9. “May all your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.” Joey Adams
10. “He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool.” F.M. Knowles
11. “Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.” Dave Beard
Note: Regarding the last three…kind of depressing but they reflect what happens with most New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t share them to discourage you from setting resolutions, but to encourage you to adopt reinforcing strategies if you do. More on this at: Make any resolutions?
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