Success is not the promotion, degree, or award you get. That's a recognition of success. Success is the times you showed up for class, the times you clocked in hours when you didn’t feel like it but had to get it done – the daily things you did that led up to that recognition.

Leadership is communicating and caring for people. Even if you’re not good at communicating and don’t express care well, communicate that you’re not good at communicating and let them know you don’t express care well. Then communicate how you care and the ways you care.

Being a leader: asking “What can I do to help you become _______ ?” It’s never about you, but the people you’re leading. It’s about serving others and using the platform to lift people up, to become better versions of themselves. It also keeps you always listening to the people you’re leading and what their needs and concerns are.

“People don’t care how much you know until they now how much you care”

“Leaders must be close enough to relate, but far enough ahead to motivate them”

There is a very fine line between motivating people and manipulating them.

Great leadership is always vulnerable, open, and willing to improve. An open door, open heart policy.

Make friends, not fans. Friends require a closeness of walking together. That is how we can impact people. That’s the base to build, and from there need to at own space, grow into competency as a leader to influence people.

If i’m not open for correction in my own life, then it’ll be very difficult to turn it around and do it for others. Leading is a reflection of the things we do and build upon in our own lives in private.