Mike O'Connell

I help leaders get better and think differently.

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Distractions show up masquerading as opportunities. The cost of a bad decision is rarely felt today—but it’s paid in the future.

Use your vision as your filter for every opportunity that comes your way.

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Don’t allow your trauma to become your entanglement.

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Fear and worry create the boundaries of your freedom. Blow up the boundaries and step into a new level of freedom!

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Lock yourself in a room without a device for 30 minutes and try sitting in your own thoughts.

You will quickly discover that your device has become a drug of distraction.

It's time to stop escaping and start facing.

[Mike O'Connell @moconnelljr]

Leadership Trap
Being more concerned with the respect of the crowed and in the process losing the respect of the core. At the end of your life you will care most about what those who love you the most have to say.

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Only insecure leaders think someone else succeeding means they’re failing.

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Leader: The leading of the Holy Spirit is not a luxury; it's an absolute necessity.

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You are an atmosphere architect. You set atmospheres instead of reacting to them. Bring the authentic JUICE this week!

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If the podcast or book you are listening to never leads you to take action, then there is no point in consuming it in the first place. Your addiction to information is prohibiting you from taking action on what you already know.

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Your ego will trick you into appreciating the results more than you appreciate the people who helped you get the results.

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Practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes progress. It’s how you turn suck into success.

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There are two opinions to every decision you make. Gods and everybody else’s. Only one matters.

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People aren't capable of giving you what only God can.

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This is what is killing the leadership culture inside your organization. You come up with all the ideas. You make all the decisions. You’ve made the vow, if it’s gonna be, it’s up to me. This is ego driven leadership and it takes place when what you do has become who you are.

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Your affections establishes your attachments. If you don’t like what you are attached to then change your affections.

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The true test of a mentors heart is how they respond when their mentee surpasses them.

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The empathy deficit in our culture is revealed by the fact that people would rather film your tragedy on their phones than step in and help you.

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Ego is an intoxicating killer. It feels good for a second but it ruins relationships in the end.

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We teach what we know but we re-produce who we are. People catch what we are carrying.

[Mike O'Connell @moconnelljr]

Tough times might come but tough times don't break you they make you if you allow them to.