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Being positive won't guarantee you'll succeed. But being negative will guarantee you won't. — Jon Gordon

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Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. — Jon Gordon

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Only through service and sacrifice can you become great. — Jon Gordon

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Every person and every team will be tested on their journey. It is part of the curriculum of life. It's just like riding a bicycle. In the beginning you're going to fall off and get knocked down but the important thing is to get back on, stay strong, and after a while once you master it you'll ride with the confidence of a champion. — Jon Gordon

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To build a winning team you must create a positive culture where negativity can't breed and grow, and the sooner you start weeding it from your team the stronger and more positively contagious your culture and team will be. — Jon Gordon

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Every morning you have a choice. Are you going to be a positive thinker or a negative thinker? Positive thinking will energize you. — Jon Gordon

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After all, every team in the league has the same goals so it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, one game at a time, that will define your season. — Jon Gordon

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When you believe, the impossible becomes possible. What you believe will become what is true. Your optimism today will determine your level of success tomorrow. Don't look at your challenges; look up and look out into the future. Don't focus on your circumstances. Focus on the right beliefs that will help you build your success. — Jon Gordon

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Lou Holtz said, 'Don't complain. Eighty percent of the people you complain to don't care and 20 percent are glad you have problems. — Jon Gordon

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Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love. — Jon Gordon

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It's not easy to deal with the negativity in the world but it's something that's got to be done. Your success and life are so important that you must surround yourself with a positive support team. — Jon Gordon

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To run a successful organization," I say, "you must learn to manage people's energy, including your own. — Jon Gordon

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Remember, you have only one ride through life so give it all you got and enjoy the ride. — Jon Gordon

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Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera. — Jon Gordon

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Great leaders don't succeed because they are great. They succeed because they bring out the greatness in others. — Jon Gordon

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You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself. — Jon Gordon

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It's about mental toughness. Mental toughness is everything. — Jon Gordon

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Sometimes we have to see what we don't want, to know what we do want. — Jon Gordon

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Jon had often told me that if you focus on the fruit and ignore the root, the tree will die, but if you continue to care for the root and focus on your culture, process, people, and purpose, then you'll always have a great supply of fruit. — Jon Gordon

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Dust on gold doesn't change the nature of gold. — Jon Gordon

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The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future. — Jon Gordon

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My life is a gift not an obligation and I Get To make the most of it. — Jon Gordon

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I'm an over-believer. — Jon Gordon

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You fuel your life with trust and love instead of fear and doubt. — Jon Gordon

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Love is the answer for the team's success. — Jon Gordon

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one negative teammate can sabotage a team. One person can't make a team but one person can break a team. — Jon Gordon

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The goal in life is to live young, have fun, and arrive at your final destination - as late as possible - with a smile on your face, because this would mean that you truly enjoyed the ride. — Jon Gordon

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Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure. — Jon Gordon

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Love takes time. It's a process not a goal. Love is something that needs to be nurtured. But if there is one thing I urge you to start immediately it's focus on bringing out the best in each person on your team. When you love someone you want the best for him. You want him to shine. And the best way to do this is to help him discover the value inside him. — Jon Gordon

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The only person who can limit your possibilities is you. — Jon Gordon

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Never a bad day, only bad moments. — Jon Gordon

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Life and success are about what you choose to believe. — Jon Gordon

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Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract. — Jon Gordon

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No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous. — Jon Gordon

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Don't waste your energy on those who don't get on your bus. — Jon Gordon

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I once heard this saying that God keeps breaking your heart until it opens. And ain't that the truth. Think about it. Every struggle, every challenge, every adversity brings you closer to your heart, to your true self, to who you really are. Sometimes you got to be broken down to the point where you feel powerless to discover your ultimate and true power. — Jon Gordon

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Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine! — Jon Gordon

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Throughout the day, anytime you find yourself feeling stressed or wanting to complain, stop for 10 seconds and breathe. Count your breaths and your blessings. — Jon Gordon

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One negative person can create a miserable office environment for everyone else. — Jon Gordon

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When leaders become focused on the fruit instead of the root and worry about the outcome instead of the process of developing team members, they may survive in the short run, but they will not thrive in the long run. — Jon Gordon

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Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state. — Jon Gordon

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Failure is not meant to be final and fatal ... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be. — Jon Gordon

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I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. - Abraham Lincoln sixteenth — Jon Gordon

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Transformational coaches invest in the root and, over time, it produces a lot of fruit. — Jon Gordon

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You want to be a passionate leader who makes decisions that are based on belief and principle over those that are based on feeling. — Jon Gordon

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Hi, I'm not answering my phone right now because I'm building kitchen cabinets at 111 Main Street. I'm putting my heart and soul into these cabinets so I won't be returning calls until I'm finished with the job. Please know I will give the same attention and care to your work, as well. If you need to talk to me feel free to come by 111 Main Street during my lunch break at noon. — Jon Gordon

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The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it. — Jon Gordon

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If you are complaining you can't be thinking about or creating what you do want. — Jon Gordon

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Jeff built a culture that was defined by a blue-collar work ethic (symbolized by a hard hat), as well as selflessness, teamwork, relentless effort, and continuous improvement. — Jon Gordon

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A true leader doesn't lead to gain power. They lead to empower and give power away. — Jon Gordon

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Optimism is a competitive advantage. — Jon Gordon

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Everybody wants the quick fix, but it doesn't happen overnight. You have to be willing to put it out there. I call it 'the secret to being an overnight success,' which means there really isn't a such thing as an overnight success. ! The secret is you work really hard for 10 years, and then you become an overnight success. — Jon Gordon

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When you fuel up with purpose you find the excitement in the mundane, the passion in the everyday, the extraordinary in the ordinary. — Jon Gordon

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it's not your goals that will lead to your success but your commitment to the process, — Jon Gordon

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Don't chase success. Decide to make a difference and success will find you. — Jon Gordon

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knowing how they want to be remembered helps them decide how to live today, and leaving a legacy will give them a purpose that will unleash their passion. — Jon Gordon

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Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out. — Jon Gordon

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So often the difference between success and failure is belief. Belief leads to action and execution. — Jon Gordon

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We often have to lose what we thought we wanted to find what God wants for us — Jon Gordon

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If you are looking to build a new culture or transform the one you have, the first questions you should ask yourself are, "What do we stand for?" and "What do we want to be known for? — Jon Gordon

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When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn — Jon Gordon

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In life you have a choice between two roads. The positive road and the negative road. The positive road will lead to enhanced health, happiness, and success and the negative road will lead to misery, anger, and failure. — Jon Gordon

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Failure provides you with a great opportunity to decide how much you really want something. Will you give up? Or will you dig deeper, commit more, work harder, learn, and get better? If you know that this is what you truly want, you will be willing to pay the price that success requires. You will be willing to fail again and again in order to succeed. — Jon Gordon

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As a leader, it is so important that your words equal your actions. It is imperative that you make sure that you go through a self-evaluation process on an almost daily basis to make sure that your actions are in line with your words. You must do what you say and say what you do. — Jon Gordon

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Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people. — Jon Gordon

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The measure of our success will not be determined by how we act during the great times in our life but rather by how we think and respond to the challenges of our most difficult moments. — Jon Gordon

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You win by cultivating the right culture, leadership, expectations, beliefs, mindset, relationships, and habits before you even play the game. You win in the locker room first. Then, you win on the field. — Jon Gordon

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The key to success is to be a lifelong learner who continuously works hard to improve. — Jon Gordon

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Culture consists of the shared purpose, attitudes, values, goals, practices, behaviors, and habits that define a team or organization. — Jon Gordon

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Anyone who attempts to build great things will face challenges. — Jon Gordon

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The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday. — Jon Gordon

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Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great — Jon Gordon

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They asked a bunch of ninety-five-year-olds, I don't know where they found them all, Florida I guess, but anyway they asked them if they could do it all over again and live their life again what would they do differently. The three things that almost all of them said were: (1) They would reflect more. Enjoy more moments. More sunrises and sunsets. More moments of joy. (2) They would take more risks and chances. Life is too short not to go for it. (3) They would have left a legacy. Something that would live on after they die. — Jon Gordon

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You haven't failed until you stop trying. — Jon Gordon

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The more energy you spend worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus, the less you will have for the people who are on your bus. And if you are worrying about the people who didn't get on your bus you won't have the energy to keep on asking new people to get on. — Jon Gordon

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You are not a true success unless you are helping others be successful. — Jon Gordon

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Research from the HeartMath Institute shows that when you have a feeling in your heart, it goes to every cell in the body, then outward - and other people up to 10 feet away can sense feelings transmitted by your heart. This means that each day you are broadcasting to your team how you feel. You are either broadcasting positive energy or negative energy, apathy or passion, indifference or purpose. — Jon Gordon

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I don't want my children to be what I want them to be. I want them to become everything God created them to be. — Jon Gordon

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The best legacy you could leave is not some building that is names after you or a piece of jewelry but rather a world that has been impacted and touched by your presence, your joy, and your positive actions. — Jon Gordon

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Make sure you have the right team members to strengthen your culture instead of people who suck the energy out of it. You can do everything right as a leader and coach, but if you don't have positive mentors and team members in the locker room your culture and team will fall apart. — Jon Gordon

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I knew the kind of culture we needed to create and I defined it for the team. The seven responsibilities everyone had were to: Have fun, work hard, and enjoy the journey. Show respect for every person you have contact with in the organization. Put the team first. Successful teams have teammates that are unselfish and willing to put their individual goals behind the team's goals. Do your job. It is defined, but you must always be prepared for it to change (especially if you're a player). Appropriately handle victory and defeat, adulation and humiliation. Do not get too high in victory or too low in defeat. Be the same person every day. Understand that all organizational decisions aim to make the team better, stronger, and more efficient. Have a positive attitude. Use positive language (both verbal and body language). — Jon Gordon

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If you think your best days are behind you, they are. If you think your best days are ahead of you, they are. — Jon Gordon

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Leadership is not just about what you do but what you can inspire, encourage and empower others to do. — Jon Gordon

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Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes. You can take it to the movies, the beach or the North Pole. Just say where you want to go and believe that it will be so. Because every journey and ride begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and if you have a desire then you also have the power to make it happen. — Jon Gordon

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You need to work as hard to be a great teammate as you do to be a great player — Jon Gordon

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Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine." — Jon Gordon

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I see you resting and learning. I see you getting stronger. I see you preparing for greater things so you can take your life and business to a higher level. Always remember that our biggest battle comes before our greatest victory. — Jon Gordon

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You see, team," Dan said passionately, "our problem is negativity, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. I believe where there is a void, negativity will fill it. And, unfortunately, within every organization you get voids in communication between leaders and their employees and between different teams and team members. It happens everywhere: with sports teams, work teams, family teams. Within these voids, negativity starts to breed and grow and, eventually, like a cancer it will spread if you don't address it. As an executive team it's up to us to do everything we can to prevent these voids from occurring and when they do occur, we must quickly fill them with positive communication and positive energy. People don't just want to be seen and heard. They want to hear and see, and if they don't feel like they are part of the company then they will assume the worst and act accordingly. — Jon Gordon

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There's a story about when President Lyndon Johnson visited NASA and as he was walking the halls he came across a janitor who was cleaning up a storm, like the Energizer bunny with a mop in his hand. The president walked over to the janitor and told him he was the best janitor he has ever seen and the janitor replied, "Sir, I'm not just a janitor, I helped put a man on the moon." See, even though he was cleaning floors he had a bigger purpose and vision for his life. This is what kept him going and helped him excel in his job. — Jon Gordon

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To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better. — Jon Gordon

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I knew the biggest priority was to create a winning culture in which every member could thrive and excel. This meant we would not only have to create the right culture for the team but also for the rest of the organization. — Jon Gordon

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Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectations and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits and habits create the future. — Jon Gordon

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I've always believed that culture is defined and created from the top down, but it comes to life from the bottom up. This meant that I had to build our culture by working with the leadership group (i.e., the owner, general manager, and executives), the coaching staff, and the football team. To strengthen the culture among the leadership group, it was important to reiterate to the owner, team president, and general manager the shared beliefs, values, and expectations that we had discussed in depth when I was interviewing for the head coaching position. It was important to have collaborative conversations on a regular basis to discuss the changes we were making and why we were making them. — Jon Gordon

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You must spend more time on building your culture than on everything else. Culture is what produces wins over time. — Jon Gordon

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Monday at 9 A.M. is when people start their workweek," Joy said passionately. "Think about that, George. People would rather die than go to work, — Jon Gordon

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Instead of being disappointed about where you are, be optimistic about where you are going. — Jon Gordon

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It is the culture you create that is going to determine whether your players perform and execute. — Jon Gordon

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Don't let negative people drain your energy. Focus
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A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, "I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win." The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, "I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog. — Jon Gordon

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Challenges ONLY make you STRONGER!!! — Jon Gordon