"The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them."
"Discipline gives you the freedom to be creative."
4 likes
Source: On Being Your Own CEO by Nell Merlino, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 08, 2012.
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Denise Morrison
"Don't just let your career happen to you. You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you."
"I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential."
"If you want a CEO role, you have to prepare for it with a vengeance."
"The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment."
"It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth"