Episode 186: "Leadership - Your open door of opportunity."

Greetings, Summit Leaders.

This week I had the opportunity to join over 700 leaders across the Americas with a common goal of becoming great leaders.

It is one of the most impactful events, focusing on the tremendous opportunity to serve others for breakthrough growth personally, professionally, and in business.

During challenging times, the factor that makes the most significant impact is leadership. Your leadership matters to your family, friends, colleagues, clients, community, and the world.

We must believe and act now that we are here with the open door of incredible opportunity.  

Wherever you are and whatever the opportunity ahead, you will face opposition.  

There is opposition we encounter with every opportunity on our life and career journey. An expanded new territory is demanding and requires wisdom to know when to wait, rest, renew and continue moving forward. They shall mount up with wings like eagles!

Someone once said, "In return and rest, you will be saved. In quietness and trust will be your strength." Great leaders take time to refresh themselves, check their moral compass, and gain insight, wisdom, and sound judgment for the best decisions. This discipline is essential to ongoing success and sustained growth. 

Going through your open door requires commitment, unity, and belief. It is belief and faith in action.

Here are three great leaders who went through the door of opportunity.

 Commitment:

 A football team named the Green Bay Packers with a leader named Vince Lombardi in the 1960s became the standard for greatness. 

 His coaching greatness is unquestioned. At the end of every NFL Super Bowl, "The Lombardi Trophy" is raised in victory by the winning team. 

"Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. – Vince Lombardi

Unity:

"My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other's kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other, and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That's how I see business: Great things in business are never done by one person; they're done by a team of people." Steve Jobs

Belief:

 "I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next." Steve Jobs

Vince Lombardi believed in his team, and their commitment to excellence resulted in five championships.

 The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling but in rising again after you fall. – Vince Lombardi

What is your open door of opportunity?

Do not allow fear, doubt, and unbelief to cause you to hesitate when you know how to walk by faith and not by sight. 

"I felt as if I were walking with destiny and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all. I was sure I should not fail."

 ― Winston Churchill, The Second World War.

Victory!