![]() ![]() It is the courage to continue that counts.” As I like to say in my speeches, “I will do today what others don’t so I’ll have tomorrow to do what others won’t.” You can be the smartest man or woman in the world, but if you don’t put in the work you won’t achieve success. It requires paying a price and working like crazy. If success were easy, everybody would be successful. He had a box on his desk that said “Action This Day.” It was a box for all the items he had to complete that day and he would stay at his desk until they were all completed, even if it meant staying until 2 a.m. “Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.”Ĭhurchill was a hard worker. If you’ve made a bad decision and failed, you’ve got to own it and move forward. You can’t do anything about what has already happened. If you spend too much time worrying about what went wrong or what should’ve happened, you won’t ever get past the failures in order to get to the good stuff. He didn’t let failures and setbacks keep him down. During World War II, he would lead Western civilization to victory against Nazi rule. During that time he was considered powerless, an old relic from another time. In his autobiography, he refers to the 1930s, when things were going really wrong, as the Wilderness Years. “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”Ĭhurchill’s life was full of defeats, failures and bad decisions. Courage is hard but it’s the most important quality you can build. If you want to succeed, you’ve got to be courageous enough to make the tough calls and keep moving forward even when you aren’t sure you have the strength to face what is in front of you. Do you really think Sir Winston Churchill wasn’t scared while making the tough decisions required during World War II, knowing that the future of the free world was on his shoulders? ![]() It means being courageous even in the presence of fear. Being courageous doesn’t mean doing all of this in the absence of fear. Then you have to move forward and hope it all works out. Succeeding and winning requires taking risks. “Courage is rightly esteemed, the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality that guarantees all others.” Learn everything you can about where we came from so you can fully see where you want to go and how you’re going to get there. ![]() So, as Churchill said, you do need to look backward. We just never learned how to correctly deal with them. Although they might seem new because we can watch them happen in real time and on a much larger scale (thanks to technology), but they aren’t new. People sometimes act like the issues we have now are new. ![]() If you forget your history, you’re destined to repeat it. Understanding history is imperative to shaping our future. “The further backward you can look the further forward you are likely to see.” These quotes are very special to me and, as I look around the world right now, I feel like this is a perfect time to share them with you. I have several Churchill quotes I keep with me all the time and pull out on days when I need a little extra motivation. We need to keep that source close to us, especially when things seem so chaotic and, frankly, people aren’t always all that nice to one another. In life it’s so important we have a place or person to draw inspiration from. If you have the chance to really study him, I highly suggest it because he was a fascinating man. His tenacity, fighting spirit and unparalleled work ethic essentially saved Western civilization when the odds were against him. If you’ve heard me speak or have been reading my blog for any amount of time, you probably know by now that I’m a great admirer of Sir Winston Churchill. ![]()
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