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Attitude Quotes

Quotes are amazing ways to change the way we think about the world. Changing our world begins with changing our attitude. Here are some great quotes about attitude.

Attitude determines altitude.
       - Anonymous

…Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home.
   The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you… we are in charge of our attitudes.
       - Charles Swindoll

A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
       - Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from “Faust”

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
       - Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
       - Anonymous

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
       - Anonymous

Joyful, Jubilant Learning

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Total Leadership

I always get excited when a new book comes out that I just know I will enjoy reading. I had a sneak peek at one of those books in this month's edition of Harvard Business Review. Total Leadership is a new book by Harvard Business Press that will be hitting bookstores in June. I have already pre-ordered my copy at Amazon.

The purpose of total leadership is to improve performance in all four domains of life - work, home, community and self - by creating mutual value among all of them. The HBR article is brilliant and summarizes the major ideas of the book. Bottom line, total Leadership is a different way of approaching goal setting. It takes on the concept of redefining goals as a series of experiments. In essence, goal setting is a trial and error process and we should not be afraid to make mistakes. The article summarizes some great ideas of how we can design an experiment to improve all domains of our live. These include:

• Tracking and reflecting
• Planning and organizing
• Rejuvenating and restoring
• Appreciating and caring
• Focusing and concentrating
• Revealing and engaging
• Time shifting and "re-placing"
• Delegating and developing
• Exploring and venturing

The website http://www.totalleadership.org/ has some excellent resources as well that are immediately available prior to the book being released. If you are looking to making changes in your life in all areas, this may just be the book you need to move you in the right direction.