During the lockdown, I have taken a few extra days off from my annual leave along with Easter holidays, so I have a longer time off from work. Among many other exciting things that I have been doing, I started to delve into my LinkedIn posts. I realised I have been in LinkedIn for over eight years now and have published over 80 posts. Many of which are motivational quotes. So, I decided to compile them based on their transactions, e.g. engagements (Reactions, comments, shares, etc.). Below is the result (I positioned them based on the stats). Please note that not all quotes are mine.
1. If you try and fail congratulations, most people won’t even try.
2. Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
3. If you want to change the world, go home and love your family – Mother Teresa
4. If you’re looking for that one person who can change your life, look in the mirror – you don’t have to go too far.
5. “No matter how slow your progress, and how many mistakes you made, you are far ahead of anyone who stopped trying.” Tony Robbin
6. There is no such thing as spare time, free time or downtime. All you get in life is time. You either use it effectively or lose it miserably. There’s nothing in between
7. When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We’ even the illness becomes wellness.
8. Most people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.
9. As you grow and evolve, it might feel like you’re losing your mind. No, you’re not losing your mind. Instead, you’re just losing the old mindset that was holding you back.
10. For matured organisations with digitally empowered employees, working from home during lockdown due to COVID-19 is nothing but BAU, they are achieving, employees are engaged, and trust is built.
11. Confidence is not walking into a room, thinking you’re better than everyone else. It is instead walking in without comparing yourself to anyone else.
12. Don’t fear change. You may lose something good, but you may also gain something great.
13. If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things..
14. “Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.” –Anonymous
15. An excellent management culture provides a competitive edge when hiring talent.
16. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberger
17. Inspiring managers not only motivate employees to work harder but to occasionally take the risk to fail, says economist Aaron Hurst.
18. “When you ask people about the manager who most consistently inspired them, they almost always point to the one who believed in them enough to push them out of their comfort zone.”
19. “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams, and you will always look lovely.” ~ Roald Dahl
20. If your team isn’t meeting your expectations, the problem might be you, says Harvard Business Review writer Andy Molinsky. “Are you micromanaging your team in such a way that they have little chance of ever meeting your standards? Are you limiting the growth of your team – and of yourself – by over-controlling the process?”
21. If you want to impress people, you can talk about your success stories but if you’re going to impact people, then talk about your failures, and actually, that is the time when you really contribute ..
22. A clever way of balancing workload is to sharing knowledge proactively
23. Indecision is the greatest enemy of opportunity, and nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
24. It’s not about how much sleep you get, and it’s how efficiently you use your time when you are awake.
25. When done with authenticity and humility, discussing your failures with others can make you appear more relatable and more human, according to research from Harvard’s Alison Wood Brooks.
26. It may be counterintuitive, but the more you listen, the more people will pay attention to you, writes Radiate CEO Betty Liu. “If you talk too much, people tune you out” — and that can hurt your reputation. “Live by one rule of thumb: Listen more than you talk.”
27. Things worth having will require worth waiting ..
28. ‘Politicians and diapers must be changed often. And for the same reason.’ ~ Mark Twain.
29. In schools, students cheat because the system values higher grades more than students value learning.
30. To help new employees start off on the right foot, it’s important for bosses to explain the “why” behind their new role, says author Jeff Haden.
31. Remember that failure is not the opposite of success, it is part of success.
32. If you don’t have a plan, you become part of someone else’s plan
33. “Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.”
34. Success is never achieved by the size of our brain, but it is always achieved by the quality of our thoughts…
35. Success is never easy, and it certainly will not attract the uninterested, and above all, it indeed is not reserved for the lazy.
36. In leadership, the character is more important than strategy
37. If you want to keep growing, it’s important to embrace discomfort, says Procter & Gamble CEO David Taylor. “We all have to be willing to deal with a certain amount of discomfort in order to see what we’re truly capable of.”
38. “To start attracting and hiring stronger talent throw away your traditional job descriptions and describe the work that needs to be done,” says hiring expert Lou Adler.
39. Failures are mere tuition one has to pay in order to learn.
40. Jobs that provide individuals with more autonomy and control serve to increase their motivation, job satisfaction, and performance – and make individuals healthier and live longer