“You’ve got to see yourself achieving your goal,” said the Guru of Success, as he squinted towards the crowd, his right index finger pointing to his eye for emphasis. “You can’t allow any thought of failure to enter your mind. The first time you consider not succeeding, you’ve ensured that you will not.”
“You’ve got to face the brutal facts, as Jim Collins said,” the business consultant explained to his struggling client. “If you don’t see the hurdles in front of you, you won’t have any chance of overcoming them.”
“Take every obstacle as a challenge, an opportunity”, the COO said to his staff, as they pored over the disappointing shipment numbers. “You can surmount any obstacle if you really believe you can.”
“You can’t teach a pig to sing,” said the long-serving engineer, when asked why his junior staff wasn’t completing the project on time. “Some people just can’t do what you want them to do, no matter how bad they want to do it.”
