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By Herb Greenberg

ISBN-10: 007144534X

ISBN-13: 9780071445344

WHAT MAKES best ACHIEVERS winning? Is it extra strength? success? force? concentration? imaginative and prescient? those are a few of the questions spoke back in Herb Greenberg and Patrick Sweeney's illuminating ebook, be triumphant by yourself phrases. Greenberg and Sweeney spent years touring in additional than dozen international locations interviewing a few of the world's so much finished contributors - together with popular architect Michael Graves; leader monetary Officer of Dun and Bradstreet, Sara Mathew; former Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach; mythical civil rights recommend Congressman John Lewis; actor Ben Vereen; Holocaust survivor Samuel Pisar; President of domestic Depot Canada, Annette Verschuren; mountain climber Rebecca Stephens; the shortest NBA participant of all time, Muggsy Bogues; Senator Barbara Boxer; melanoma survivor Janet Lasley; and Philadelphia Eagles proprietor Jeffrey Lurie. via in-depth interviews and effects from a entire character overview, the authors discover the defining characteristics that set every one of those impressive contributors aside. those inspiring members exemplify 19 defining characteristics that could force your luck, similar to * Optimism * Resilience * Empathy * Persuasiveness * braveness * Perseverance * Willingness to Take dangers * Creativity * Competitiveness * self assurance * Self-Awareness and you can how to determine those characteristics in your self via taking a loose, in-depth character review that could assist you observe your targeted capability and strengths. then you definitely can be poised to find events that play for your usual talents, realize your defining moments and grab possibilities to be successful by yourself phrases.

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Courage can come through in many ways. It might be the courage to change jobs or get out of a negative relationship or start a business. Then again, there are people on this planet like Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), who take courage to a whole new level. Tapping Into Your Defining Qualities 37 In the early 1960s, John Lewis was at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was beaten countless times and jailed 40 times. He said, “I’d been told over and over by my parents not to get in trouble.

I had never sought out anything with such conviction as I did to climb Everest,” she said. “For me the battle was already half won, if not more. ” Self-Awareness. There are some of us who are naturally reflective. And some of us just race from point A to point B, rarely looking back Tapping Into Your Defining Qualities 29 unless we’ve knocked something over. When we’re not clear about what is motivating us, we can trip over ourselves and land in places we never intended. On the other hand, when we know what drives us, we can tap into our strengths and focus them in a clear direction.

So he pulls over and rents a room for the night. Then he wakes up and drives off thinking he’s been to The Peak. But it was only a rest stop. That’s all. Some people never go any farther than that because they think they’ve been to The Peak. But you’ve got to keep going. You can’t be fooled by the rest stops or the places where you’re just fueling your car. Sometimes those stops are diversions or just distractions. Or the filling stations of adversity. You’ve got to listen to that voice inside that says, ‘Keep going.

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