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a choice that you see yourself as someone
who is valuable and there is because when you see yourself as someone
as valuable the language that you speak
is very powerful when people say they've they say talk is cheap right if you
heard that
talk is cheap...talk is not cheap however talk is actually very expensive
because some people are talking all the time and it'll realize it's costing them
a lot
so this is a very important principle if you get this principle this is like
the the foundation here
and that is this honoring yourself
as your word a person above powerful speaking powerful people
are sorry people people that are sorry you might know some these people
right on sorry I couldn't make it today all I'm sorry I'm late
I'm sorry to do that project all I'm sorry meet you
in the morning right...they say I'm sorry are all the time
and that's okay it is what it is but they have no what...
have no power right because they are always sorry their language that they speak doesn't
mean a whole lot
people today is like a caffeine crazy society in ago I'm talking right
you know we've got like read all these red ball and you know energy drinks
when you go to the checkout line
is silly things are going to have a half a shot of this you know here's a 25 hour energy
drink is a 24 energy drink
is a 22 right we all these energy drinks to keep us caffeinated single
more caffeinated
now than ever right if you think back on a ten or twenty years ago
you know maybe not if you guys when you're have but a maybe if you
think back on like you know there wasn't so much this craze for caffeine we
see all the time now know these
shots triple shots keep you up in the morning you know all this
caffeine crazy society but I think what's lacking to sometimes inspiration
inspiration creased you'll find out what our passion is what we are inspired by
because that will keep you going
that'll get you outta bed that'll keep you going on the next day when you feel
like giving up
is constantly being inspired constantly inspire yourself
with its find something out there on the internet on youtube finding a video
going listen to a speaker pick up a book whatever is the keep yourself inspire
because there's going to be times when you feel like packing it in the next
point I want to take a look at
is this idea of accountability that's rightI i see some people may be
squirming in their in your seats right now
but accountability...Winston Churchill said it best when he said "responsibility
is the price of greatness"
so this whole idea of accountability I think that's gonna be one of the great
discoveries
on the 21st century is the society that we are in right now is this whole
abdication of accountability where people are say it's not my fault it's this person's
fault, its not my fault it's my neighbors fault or its not fault its my parents fault
and let me paint the picture for you... have you been asked to work
a 10 hour day... has your boss said something that might have hurt your
feelings
if so call the Law Offices of 1- 800 - Joe No responsibility
right... that's how far it's gone you can't turn on the TV
watch the TV
or listen to the radio without 10 or 15 minutes
and something going on like with an ad like that weather its this whole wave of
just...it's not my fault...it's somebody else's fault
so taking a look as leaders
is be able to hold ourselves accountable because we hold ourselves accountable
then we can all other people accountable
and it's amazing what what I i've dealt with this
all throughout I still continue to deal with this in organizations...
a friend of mine called me up
a client of mine a defense contractor a manager
trying to hold somebody his department accountable and he's run up to
severe resistance from H and from other people inside the company
and what's happening is when you're not able to hold you folks accountable
the good employees get punished...and the bad employees get rewarded
the good employees because the work has to get done so they get more work to get
less time to do it in the bad employees they get less working to get more time
to do it in
because things have to get done at the end the day now here's here's the real
detriment in that
when you have an organization that has no accountability
it's a very demotivating..people see that and are like if that person's
not held accountable then why do I have to really be held accountable
so it's a very demotivating environment so that's something to think
of
as a leader..as you sitting here right now
as a leader am i holding myself accountable because it starts with the self it
starts with you first
and also my whole other people around me accountable
failure is only a form of feedback
that's all what failure is because you're trying to meet your goal you're
trying to meet your objective if you don't reach it
you know what we've you know what okay my actions failed
and by the way you are we tie your actions to that
not yourself not your self-worth but your actions
because that's at the source of what performance is
not not actually you yourself not how you think and not what you feel
but what your actions and therefore if you know that my action
failed in reach my goal there, then I need need to do what?
change my action, I need to do what take a new action...now
let's talk about three simple words...
that when you figure out your vision you figure out where you want to go in life
and you're gonna let you know you figured hey I'm gonna work or upon the
time
okay now let's talk about massive focused action
basketball coach looking
on his team he's in the in a game
he goes to his bench and he sees that five players on the sideline
five players he decides to put one player in the game
how many players you have left on the bench
no he has five because when he decides
a decision is not an action
and that the same thing to so you decide when you make a choice
from from this conference is what you gonna go do that decision your choices
mean anything to you take what
to take action want to take you back to December 2012
I'm in Albany Georgia in a Fox
television newsroom and get ready to go on and do a interview about holiday stress i'm
talking about.
holiday stress in ways to handle it and after I
conducted the interview I went out to the lobby and met some high school
students
and I asked them...why are you guy here tell me your story
me said you the reason we're here is to have our prom intergraded
and I said what does that mean and they said in our county we have a
white prom
and we have a black prom
and I i said how does that still go on?
and they later educating me as far as what was taking place was going
on
and I just sat there and listened to them you asked me a couple questions
so I answer the questions they want to the car and I got them all books all
leadership by choice books
signing stuff with them taking some pictures leaving misspelled something
wrong because the students soon will very quickly tell you
if you missed all something so that was funny
but just to be with them there and then and I left
and didn't think anything of it and then a couple months later
in March I get a call from one of the students
and she says hey it's a go we're havin
the first integrated prom in
Wilcox County High School and would you come
and be our guest speaker
I said absolutely yes I'll be there and then she later on it tells me all the
publicity they're getting all this things and i'm like what did i
get myself into here
you know and then but then I I got their drove up and such and a wonderful time
with the students very short message to them what gives love what gives life
in your actions in the language you use because the language creates reality
and I share with you that story
to kinda really hit home the message that the president Eugene is talking about
sharing your best with others just goes beyond
just in this conference here