46 Quotes by Chris J. Gregas

It is no secret that we can only give to others what we have to give. We can only export to our clients what we have in fact imported into our own lives. Leadership and influence are among other things, sharing with others from the overflow of our own growth and multiplied challenges.

Chasing daylight, is in its simplest form “a call for all of us to risk everything for a life of genuine purpose. It is seizing and squeezing the power of every moment in our life.” It is refusing to let life pass us by either by the hour or the day. It is life lived with a restful urgency that has as its mantra, “Hurry up and wait.” It is celebrating and respecting life enough to make a dent on it.

Do not look at the size of your mountain but look at what faith can do with such a challenge in front of you. Believing in yourself is where it starts. Don’t wait on others to affirm you. It starts with you and ends with you. You need help along the way for sure, but you may be climbing to the top solo on most days. That’s okay. Mr. Faith and Mrs. Confidence is along for the ride and they make dud’s into studs.

If you wait until you have a comfort level in your business, you may wait a very long time. Share what you know. Talk less to more people. Keep it simple. Admit you don’t know something. But don’t quench your enthusiasm about your work. People may not believe what you say but that does not mean that they can’t believe you because of how and why you say it. Set yourself on fire today and see how many come to watch you burn!

Choose to begin the long but joyful process of centering in on people for where they are not where you want them to be. On what is reality with them not on what your reality is with you. Caring and listening goes a long way in successfully capturing a client and have a life- long client to boot. Let the mantra “Others” be your song that plays repeatedly in the minds and hearts of your audience.

Refuse to let the stuff of life tie you down and paralyze you. Do not let your personal problems control your productivity. Focus on what you can do not what you cannot control. Have the confidence to be the exception, the outlier that overcomes all obstacles – someone who is willing to bet on themselves. That’s a winning formula.

What worked last week might not cut it this week. Don’t ask for more time. Ask and plan for an effective use of your time doing things that are income generating and not just foo-foo events. If you don’t care where you are going than I guess it doesn’t matter what road you take to get there. And that kind of thinking would be a mistake!

The mind is a terrible thing to waste. It is also a fertile ground for cosmic forces to reap havoc. The story we tell ourselves about ourselves is the most lethal story played out large in our lives and businesses. The battle to daily dwell in Focus land is both heated and treacherous. The mind is where the battle rages and what we fill it with will surely be evident soon enough.

Lack of direction or purpose is a major problem that we must scale if we would even sniff business success. Somebody says, “I don’t have enough hours in a day to do all that I need to do.” But that is strange. All of us have the same amount of time to do what we THINK is our duty. The real deal is – a 28-hour day will not remedy the struggle of the man or woman who does not have a clear purpose on why they do what they do and how they do what they do.