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In conjunction with the Capital Region BEC, I am running a series of small business development workshops "How to create or build your business" in the ACT/ Southern NSW region.

These are FREE and funded by the Capital Region BEC and is aimed at people intending to start a new small business or who want to take their existing small buisnes to the next step.

Dates, times and locations can be found at www.todayseminars.com.au

I've spent so much time talking to people about leadership, I thought I'd put it in a book. What better way than an e-book. You can download your copy of "Be a Billion Dollar Leader" from www.todayseminars.com.au

In any race, although only one person will win, there are others who will achieve their personal best; something they have never done before in their life. More than likely each of them will have strived to do the very best they could on the day. Because of that they are all achievers.

Yet so often, they are made to feel the very opposite. You only have to look at newspaper headlines when a major sporting star doesn’t quite “make it” to see this as true. Let’s face it, they achieved the best result they could on that day, under the circumstances they were forced to face.

And that is all that can be asked of anyone. Including you!

It doesn’t matter if you end up wearing the gold medal normally placed around the neck of the person who wins the event.

It’s the gold medal that you place around your own heart in recognition of your own efforts, after giving your very best on the day, and achieving the result you did, that counts.

In the movie “Cool Runnings” (1993; Walt Disney Pictures), actor John Candy portrays the coach of the first Jamaican bob-sled team to compete in the Winter Olympics. As the main event approaches he is asked by the captain of the team, “What’s it like to win the gold medal?”

John Candy replies, “You’ll know when you cross the finish line but remember, if you’re nothing without the gold medal, then you’ll be nothing with it.”

Being first isn’t that important. Striving to be first, being there, competing, refusing to give in - is. And, whatever the result you get from giving the best that you can on the day, it is a result. And because you have achieved a result, that makes you an achiever.

Exert from: How an Ant Ate an Elephant – The Process of Achievement. Copyright 2001: TODAY! Seminars.

Go on; make your dreams a reality.

Regards

Colin Emerson
TODAY! Seminars
www.todayseminars.com.au

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There are two types of respect given to leaders: the respect of their rank (or position) and the respect of the person.

Respect of rank is a given. Rank describes the position of an individual in the hierarchy of an organisation. You salute/recognise the rank/position even if you don’t know or respect the individual.

Respect of the person is something that is earned. This respect takes time to develop and comes from really getting to know the person behind the rank/position. It is gained through the example set by that individual’s actions and behaviour.

The true leader knows it is what they do and how they do it that will earn them the real respect of the team.

They know they have to work to gain this respect and that it is not automatically given. They know it is what they do and not the work of others that generates this respect. They understand that reputation counts for little and that what they have done in the past is nowhere near as important as what they do now and in the future.

They know that true respect for them as an individual can only be given voluntarily and not forced from their team.

They understand that the traits and behaviours they display as a person, their own characteristics, personality and integrity are what will lead their team to respect them.

Importantly though, they understand the difference between being liked and being respected. To the true leader, respect is more important than being liked. They are willing to be disliked for what they do.

It is sad to watch when the leadership of a country, of a business, of a community or group openly disregard this important principle of leadership and focus instead on leading by fear, falsehoods and media/people manipulation. Far too often our leader today are asking us to respect them while displaying little in the way of earning that respect.

Yet, there are great leaders out there. Some are well known, but more often then not, they are just ordinary people in ordinary roles - not even leadership - who, through their actions, through the qualities they display, earn the respect of those around them - at work, at home, in schools, in hospitals, in services, in business, in community groups, on the sporting field or anywhere else where they give of themselves.

Wouldn't it be good if we let those people know that they are respected?

It might just encourage others to be great leaders themself!

Go on; make your dreams a reality.

Regards
Colin Emerson
TODAY! Seminars
www.todayseminars.com.au

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I am often surrounded by dreamers; people who have a vision of the great things they want to achieve in life. Nearly as often, I find myself sharing space with someone who struggles to believe in anything other than not believing in the possibility of anything.

Lewis Carroll understood this when he wrote "Through The Looking Glass" (a children's book that every adult should read). He understood that there are humans who need to believe in the impossible. Take the following between Alice and the Queen;

"I can't believe that!", said Alice.

"Can't you?" the Queen said in pitying terms. "Try again, draw a long deep breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

It's not believing in the impossible that stops people from achieving great things, it is believing that the impossible IS impossible that stops us.

One of the great dreamers of our world was a man called Walt Disney. How much joy has the impossible dreams he brought to life brought to this world? It is best expressed in the words of Jiminy Cricket:

When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

Go on; make your dreams a reality.

Regards

Colin Emerson

TODAY! Seminars

www.todayseminars.com.au

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