TRAITS OF GREAT LEADERS – Jim Rohn | Powerful Motivational Speech | Jim Rohn Motivation
here’s what leadership is the challenge to be more than mediocre the challenge to step up to a new level a new dimension and here’s what this new dimension has opportunity and responsibility but who wouldn’t want the responsibility along with the opportunity if it builds an extraordinary life you wouldn’t want it any other way the refinement of leadership make this list learn to be strong but not rude some people mistake rudeness for strength rudeness we don’t need strength we do need here’s the next one learn to be bold but not a bully we need to boldly seize the day boldly seize the opportunity boldly seize the chance but we don’t need bullies we don’t need anybody to push anybody around there’s a whole new level of leadership a new method of leadership here’s what it is leadership by invitation not leadership by threat not leadership by intimidation that now shows the weakness of the leader that now shows ego at work instead of skills but it’s leadership by invitation invite somebody to a better way of doing things here’s what else it’s called leadership by inspiration inspiring somebody to make the necessary changes to move up or to get the job done as leaders we inspire as leaders we entice as leaders we invite invite entice inspire not threaten new kind of leadership be bold but not a bully next be kind but not weak some people mistake weakness for kindness it is a great mistake kindness isn’t weak kindness is a certain unusual strength but don’t say i must be weak in order to be kind the answer is no sometimes you have to be unusually strong to be kind somebody coined the expression tough love love that really tells the truth and level sometimes with a broken heart but whatever has to be said has to be said kind but not weak here’s another one that’s excellent be thoughtful but not lazy we need to give thought but we also need to take action you need to dream without just being a dreamer hit in the clouds yes dreaming lofty dreams but feet on the ground here’s two or three more these are excellent be humble but not timid some people mistake timidity for humility humility is a virtue timidity is an illness it can be cured it can be managed and if you are timid you got to work on it i’m telling you it’s a weakness it’s not a virtue but you must turn your timidity into strength and keep working on it and keep working on it until finally you have driven it into such a small corner that it does not devastate your life anymore but humility is a virtue expands your ability to understand the vastness of it all and how small we are in relation to everything humility that causes you to get on your knees and talk to a child without any fear how you look humility to understand yes humans are unique but in the vast space of it all we’re all pretty small yes we know but what we don’t know is so much greater than what we do here’s a couple more be proud without being arrogant there’s something to be said for team pride and community pride company pride personal pride but don’t cross the line to where you’re being proud now becomes arrogance pride we need arrogance we don’t arrogance is usually the childish attempt to make up for lack of self-worth the childish attempt to make up for lack of self-worth has a tendency to create arrogance and you know the worst kind of arrogance arrogance from ignorance that’s the worst kind if a guy’s smart and arrogant we can tolerate that but if a guy’s dumb and arrogant that’s hard to take so now all leaders must learn the basic laws so they can use them as illustrations as well as use them for productivity here’s the first of the basic laws whatever you sow you reap now here’s another way to put it on the positive side in order to reap you must sow reaping is reserved for those who sow who plant to deserve the harvest you must plant the seed take care of it in the summer carefully harvest it and then do wise things with the harvest now here’s the rest of the law of sowing and reaping if you sow good you reap good if you’re so bad you reap bad you can’t so bad and hope for good you can’t plant weeds and hope for flowers it works both positive and negative now here’s something else about the law of sowing and reaping you don’t reap what you sow you reap much more than what you sow now here’s what’s important to understand on that it works both positive and negative the old prophet said if you sow to the wind you don’t reap a wind you reap a whirlwind you’ve got to be careful sowing to the wind it doesn’t come back as a wind comes back as a whirlwind that’s on the negative side but now it’s also works on the positive side if you plant a cup of corn how much do you get back a cup no a bushel for the cup you get back much more than what you plan that’s the reason for planting for the increase positive negative now here’s the next key to the law of sowing and reaping sometimes it doesn’t work at all the farmer plants the crop in the spring takes care of it all summer is an honorable man loves his family is a decent citizen but the day before he sends the combines into the field a hailstorm comes along and beats his crop into the ground and it’s gone it’s lost so this time it didn’t work so now what must the farmer do he’s got to decide whether to do it again or not should we take another chance in the next spring we would advise him to do so even though he lost everything in the last harvest and it didn’t work you didn’t reap what you sow but here’s the law of averages here’s the odds more often than not you reap what you say more often than not you’ll have a harvest if you plant in the spring there’s no guarantee but more often than not and guess what more often than not is pretty good odds it’s better than las vegas incredible next one of the most important laws to learn is the law of averages if you do something often enough you’ll get a ratio of results once you understand that you know the world is yours learning to employ people in the unique thing called the law of averages is stunning in its result in terms of fortune future in baseball we call it batting average swing ten times get a hit swing ten times get a hit nobody bats nine out of ten some of these guys are getting five six seven million dollars a year batting two three out of ten so you don’t have to be perfect here all you have to do is understand the law of averages now even if you’re only getting one out of ten you can now start to compete if you’ve been here a long time you can get nine out of ten i just joined i can only get one out of ten i’m telling if we have a contest i will beat you say well you just started how could you beat me it’s very simple while you talk to ten and get nine i will talk to one hundred and get ten i win isn’t that clever here’s what i do if i’m new i make up in numbers what i lack in skill once you understand the law of averages i’m telling you it’s so exciting to work with the law of averages here’s the next important law called the law of faith faith is the ability to see things that don’t yet exist faith though can turn difficulty into reality positive reality here’s what faith is for number one faith is the ability to see it as it is faith doesn’t mind seeing it as it is because faith is a miracle worker faith does not ignore the negative faith uses the negative because if there was no negative there’d be no need for faith if everything is okay what would you need faith for it you need faith because it isn’t okay now what isn’t okay who knows the situation that isn’t okay isn’t okay so here’s what faith does number one faith does not ignore the negative because faith now stands as the miracle worker if you let it work so faith sees it as it is if it’s ugly it’s ugly if it isn’t working it isn’t working if it’s a mass it’s a mess it doesn’t hurt to call a mass a mess you don’t need to fancy it up here if it’s broke it’s broke if it’s miserable it’s miserable faith doesn’t mind admitting that faith doesn’t mind seeing that here’s why number one you can see it as it is that’s the beginning of faith seeing it as it is now here’s the second step of faith see it better than it is couldn’t you see beyond the mess the mess is for today couldn’t you look into tomorrow the answer is yes i guess i could look into tomorrow humans have this incredible ability to look into tomorrow to look into next week dream the dreams make the plans visualize use your imagination see it better than it is now here’s the third step that turns faith into reality make it better than it is faith now must be invested in the muscle but if you invest faith now in the action you can take any situation and make it better than it is next in the beginning of faith seeing it as it is don’t see it worse than it is don’t blow it out of proportion some people have this tendency to blow it all out of proportions it can’t be that bad if it’s this bad that’s how bad it is you don’t need to multiply how bad it is by 10 just as it is that’s the deal as it is don’t see it worse than it is now here’s the next don’t see it for more than it can become there’s a thin line between faith and folly yes it’s possible to see yourself as a millionaire but not overnight somebody says well yes i can see that don’t see it for more than it can become in a reasonable period of time yes if it dropped out of the sky overnight but that’s not likely but it’s still possible to be a millionaire it’s still possible to be rich and wealthy given a certain amount of time working with the law of averages and all the rest of the stuff we’ve talked about today so don’t see it for more than it can become so that you move into folly instead of faith plenty is possible without being foolish now here’s the next one give yourself a chance to understand that it could be far more in the future than what you can first see take the first step of what you can see but give yourself a chance to be able to see it for more than what you first see on a foggy night if all you can see is a hundred feet here’s what you do walk that first hundred feet now you can see another hundred feet you can’t see the two hundred feet but if you can see a hundred feet you walk the first hundred feet now you can see another hundred feet so i’m asking you to take the early steps of faith whatever you can see it possible to become start believing that have faith for that and i’m telling you as that starts to exercise you’ll be able to see it for more and for more and for more the possibilities will start to increase in your own imagination now make these notes in leadership working with people make these notes learn to work with the people who deserve it not the people who need it because life operates by deserve teaching people how to deserve it it starts to accelerate self-esteem you can’t believe what a high the beginning of new self-esteem is if a person hasn’t had it for years and years and they’ve been beat down by their own philosophy and they’ve been beat down by everybody else if you start them on the early steps that starts this process of self-esteem self the early self-esteem is even more valuable than the fortune because it comes at a necessary time leading people step by step into self-esteem and self-esteem leads to action action leads to progress progress leads to fortune what else do you want here’s what i found you cannot change people but they can change themselves the best you can do is inspire and hope inspire and hope teach and hope that’s the best you can do you can’t get in there and change but you can do your best to deliver the message that can create change if someone will accept it if someone will do something about it take the early baby steps to get started next all leaders must teach the fact that there is both good and evil here’s the challenge for all of us to become the most of the good in us and the least of the bad the most of the good and the least of the bad because that resides in all of us but we must remember there is both good and evil remember the story about the frog and the scorpion the frog and the scorpion appear on the bank of the river at the same time the frog’s about to jump in swim to the other side scorpion sees what’s about to happen engages the frog in conversation and says mr frog i’m a scorpion and i can’t swim would you be so kind to let me hop on your back you swim across the river just deposit me on the other side i’d be grateful frog looks at the scorpion and says no way scorpions sting frogs and kill them i’d get out there halfway you’d sting me and i’d drown scorpion said mr frog with your frog brain you’re not thinking if i stung you out there halfway you’d drown and i’d drown i’m not interested in committing suicide i just want to get to the other side please do me the favor frog says okay that makes sense hop on scorpion hops on the frog’s back frog starts across the river sure enough halfway across the river the scorpion stings the frog the frog cannot believe what’s happened and he said why did you do that i’m about to drown and die but so are you why would you do that and the scorpion said because i am a scorpion make the note you can’t take a chance so you must learn the story of the frog in the scorpion i learned in building an enterprise there are some people you don’t need their productivity better off without their productivity because they’re scorpions in the fold the old prophet said what beware of the foxes that spoil the vines and to be a good shepherd to be a good father to be a good mother you got to learn the story of the frog and scorpion and the foxes that spoil the vines you
