P.J. Fleck is the Head Football Coach at the University of Minnesota and author of the new book, Row the Boat: A Never-Give-Up Approach to Lead with Enthusiasm and Optimism and Improve Your Team and Culture with Jon Gordon. He is also currently one of the finest leadership speakers in the world.
Today, Coach Fleck was featured on Jon Gordon’s The Power Of Positive Summit. This is one of my go-to events each year for encouraging and positive leadership training. One of the things which makes Jon such a great leader is his kindness and generosity. This year’s online event is absolutely FREE!!! You should click HERE to gain access to all of this week’s content.
The following are 30 Pieces Of Leadership Fire From P.J. Fleck via Jon Gordon’s The Power of Positive Summit:
- “February 9th, 2011 I lost my second son to a heat condition. His name was Cole.”
- “I’ve been divorced. I’ve lost a child. I’ve overcome a lot in my life because I never stopped growing.”
The Oar
- “The oar is the energy you bring to your life.”
- “There are two types of people in this world, those who bring you UP or those who bring you DOWN.”
- “If you don’t think you can, nobody will get you there. If you think you can, you can get around others who think you can and then you can.”
- “The oar is the symbol of strength. It’s the only that can take you from where you are to where you want to go. The great thing about the oar is you determine whether you put in the water or whether you take it out.”
- “There’s good things and hard things to get through. There’s no bad things. Only opportunistic situations.”
- “You keep your oar in the water and you keep rowing. It’s hard. No one said rowing a boat would be easy.”
- “We’re here to bring you hope. We’re here to bring you a better life.”
- “Keep your oar in the water. Never ever, ever quit rowing.”
The Boat
- “The boat takes a lot more work in the giving and serving side.”
- “If you want something bigger and better than you have now, you have to change and get uncomfortable really quickly. That’s the price of change and you have to pay it.”
- “You also have to serve and give more than you ever have.”
- “Have you ever had a hard day? I say a hard day because I don’t believe in bad days anymore.”
- “When you have a hard day you’re thinking about you.”
- “If you want to get what you say you want, you’re going to have to sacrifice.”
- “If you’re not willing to sacrifice for what you want, whoever is going to sacrifice more is going to get there. Someone who wants it more is going to pass you on the way to getting there.”
- “The bigger your boat is the farther you can go. The more you give, and the more you serve, and the more you sacrifice the bigger your boat is going to get. The bigger your boat gets the more storms you can take on.”
- “Little boats sink in storms. Big boats float. Not only do they float, big boats take people farther.”
- “If you want to go far in life, make your life not about you. Make it about other people. Make it about serving and giving.”
The Compass
- “If you want to be extraordinary, you have to get around the extraordinary people. Who better to teach you about being extraordinary than the extraordinary.”
- “The elite don’t want to be around average.”
- “If you surround yourself with elite people you’re going to accomplish elite things.”
- “You can’t see the future but you row in the present. You can’t control the future but you can control aspects of the present.”
Closing Thoughts
- “When we row we look at our past. Every time we row it’s an opportunity to row better and row more efficiently.”
- “The Row The Boat lifestyle is about never giving up, not allowing the circumstance to dictate your behavior, letting the other person get tired.”
- “A man or a woman distracted, is a man or woman defeated.”
- “It’s finding a way to think optimistically about everything.”
- “A failing moment is growth… There’s either winning or learning.”
- “Trained behavior becomes boring habits. Boring habits become elite instinct. The elite get to the elite instinct. The average stop in the boring habits because they lose interest.”
Simply unbelievable!!! What is one thing you learned from Coach Fleck which will make you a better leader?
And trust me, after listening to his message and reading these words, his upcoming book will be a must-have purchase. Get your copy by clicking HERE.
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