This is John Maxwell who said leadership is influence nothing more nothing less. Your ability

to influence people within the sphere of your periphery. It's not about making a nice

impression. It's about making an impact. It's about doing your best. I learned how to

make an impact from the wisest person I ever met in my life. A third grade dropouts.

That third grade dropout the wisest person I ever met in my life who taught me to combine knowledge

and wisdom to make an impact was my father. My father taught himself how to read, taught

himself how to write, decided in the midst of Jim Crowism as America was breathing the last

gas with the Civil War. My father decided he was going to stand and be a man, not a black

man, not a brown man, not a white man, but a man. Saying this boys I won't have a problem

if you aim high and miss, but I'm going to have a real issue if you aim low and hit.

Quoting Henry Ford saying if you think you can or if you think you can't, you're right.

Lessons like these. Son, don't judge people. The tendency of a person is to walk away from

somebody that's different from them. You stay there and you get to know them. Vision is the

ability to see the invisible. Don't judge. Son, you'd rather be an hour early than a

minute late. We never knew what time it was at my house because the clocks were always

ahead. 30 years my father left the house at 3.45 in the morning. Why daddy? He said maybe

one of my boys will catch me in the act of excellence. Aristotle said you are what you

repeatedly do. Therefore excellence ought to be a habit, not an act. You're going to do

it job. Do it right. Do it the right way. Be kind to people. He always told us kind

deeds are never lost. Ego is the anesthesia that dens the pain of stupidity pride as the burden

of a foolish person. You'll never be a great executive. You'll never be a great team mate.

It's all about you. You'll never be a great staff member. It's all about you. Make sure

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