At the beginning of the year we organized ten key principles we believe in as a team. These principles are not just pie-in-the-sky goals -- they're expectations. Sometimes it's hard to make words come alive off the page and put them into practice. But I've found memorizing them and reciting them to myself often helps. So I thought I'd use my blog to "recite" them as well. So each day, I'll post a principle and give a little background about where it came from or why we believe in it.
The first one is "Believe." We're a team. We're in this together. If we don't believe success is possible, it won't happen.
The inspiration for this was my high-school basketball coach, Gene Wilkins. He was the inspiration for much of my leadership today. But "believing," in particular, was a Coach Wilkins hallmark. He made a bunch of small-town, height-challenged kids believe they could play the best defense in the league and win ballgames because of it. And we did.
The mind is a powerful, powerful thing. All our reality starts in our mind. If we don't first believe in our hearts and our minds we can do something, it will never happen in reality.
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