Star's Corner of the Sky: Good to Great

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Good to Great

I'm reading the book Good to Great by Jim Collins for one of my classes and the opening page reads:

"Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the reasons why we have so little that becomes great."

Wow - this got me thinking. I feel that there are quite a few things I have become good at over the years, but have I become truly great at anything? Probably not yet. Will I become great at anything? I hope so...
How does someone become great? Who is the judge of great? How long does it take to become great?

Don't be shy - I want to hear what you are good at right now, and how you plan to become great!

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JessiJanuary 19, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Star!! I have a post all about this, I'll send you the link. We could talk about this all day long.

Love how thoughtful you are.

http://cherishinghopesanddreams.blogspot.com/2011/11/giving-thanks-part-8-nephi.html?m=0

Jess
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Brittney EngelJanuary 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM
There are many things I think I am good at including being a mom. But I have yet to reach "great status." I believe that I won't be a great mom for a very long time. I think that working your way towards great is part of the adventure just like most things in life. While there is nothing wrong with being good, it's always good to have your sights set on something a little higher (aka great)!
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So many men seem destined
To settle for something small
But I won't rest until I know I'll have it all
So don't ask where I'm going
Just listen when I'm gone
And far away you'll hear me singing
Softly to the dawn:
Rivers belong where they can ramble
Eagles belong where they can fly
I've got to be where my spirit can run free
Got to find my corner of the sky
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Success is when opportunity meets preparation.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
~E.E. Cummings

If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Whether you think you can or you can't, you are right.
~Henry Ford

Our society is afflicted by a spirit of thoughtless arrogance unbecoming those who have been so magnificently blessed. How grateful we should be for the bounties we enjoy. Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency.
~Gordon B. Hinckley

In Order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
~Coco Chanel

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~Sir Winston Churchill

The people who get on in this world are people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
~George Bernard Shaw

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
~Shakespear

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
~Margaret Thatcher

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it's all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
~Mother Teresa

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