To
Achieve Your Vision, Surround Yourself with Personal Champions
by
Francine R. Gaillour, MD, MBA, FACPE
Do
you have a vision of personal success? Are you working on a business,
personal or leadership goal? Do you have a fuzzy picture of what you
want your life to look like?
If
you answered "yes," to any of these questions, then I
encourage you to help make that personal vision a reality by visually
and verbally supporting your intention: Surround yourself
every day with words of encouragement and inspiration that reflect how
you feel in your "most optimistic" moments. Get some
high-powered "personal champions."
While
the idea of posting "affirmation cards" or "success
posters" might sound corny, or may feel too much like
corporate-speak, I ask you to take this leap of faith and surround
your private environment---such as your office or bulletin
board---with words of wisdom and encouragement from modern and ancient
sages.
Saying,
seeing or hearing the inspiring words of great leaders, teachers,
healers, philosophers have their own kind of special
"energy" that helps pull you along your personal
path.
Here
are a few of my favorite quotes that I routinely post around a
conference room when I conduct leadership
workshops. I recommend that you chose 3 to 5---from among
these or from your own collection--- and make them a visual
"support" in your day to day life.
You
are the company that you keep, Right?
So
why not choose great personal
champions to keep your energy high and focused on what you really
want in life!
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Never
lose a holy curiosity
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---Albert
Einstein
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Sit,
walk or run. Just don’t wobble.
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---Zen saying |
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Courage
is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.
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Mark
Twain |
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It
is not our abilities that show who we truly are; it is our choices.
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---Professor
Dumbeldore |
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The
first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look
things in the face and know them for what they are.
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Marcus
Aurelius
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You
cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world
around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what
kind of difference you want to make
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Jane
Goodall |
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Try
not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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Albert
Einstein |
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You
cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.
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Anna
Quindlen |
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He
who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the
north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards
it.
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Confucius |
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Our
scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles
and misguided men.
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Martin
Luther King Jr. |
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Happiness
is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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Mahatma
Gandhi
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You
gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,
'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes
along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Eleanor
Roosevelt
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There
is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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Maya
Angelou |
Who
are your "personal champions?" I invite you to
send me your favorite quotes to share with our Daring Doctors
readers. One of your colleagues just might be waiting for the
right words of inspiration to move them forward. Perhaps YOUR
personal champion has those words.
Francine
R. Gaillour, MD, MBA, FACPE is an executive coach and business
consultant. She is president of The Gaillour Group and director
of Creative Strategies in Physician Leadership. Dr. Gaillour is
a professional speaker on healthcare leadership, technology and
cultural change.
She
can be reached at (206) 686-4205
or francine@physicianleadership.com
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