Quotes About Direction

I tend to make my most important decisions by following my instincts rather than any straightforward logic.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

I'd like to have a perfect sense of direction. I could get lost with a GPS strapped to my arm.

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

I think one key part of doing more with less is to be more strategic, to realize what the objectives you're truly trying to accomplish are and then to drive with greater focus towards those objectives.

Every successful enterprise has a very clear strategic purpose.

To me, governing is communicating. That facilitates the whole job because I can listen, I can hear what people have to say, and at the same time I can let them know what are we working on, what is our strategic line, and where are we going.

I've been very strategic in how I've approached the jobs I want to do.

You need to be strategic about how you define your leadership journey and where that takes you.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

Collins' comment was: 'a captain who sent his crew to sea, and tried to direct operations from dry land'.

Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you're willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries.

The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose.

They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries."72

No one is going to put rumble strips in your life for you. That is up to you. Your rumble strips may not be the same as mine, and mine may not be the same as yours. But everyone needs rumble strips. It all begins with self-leadership; before we talk about leading a church or a business, we must talk about being a leader worth following.

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going.

Hold east of Appleton VOR on the 090 degree radial, 5 nautical mile legs, left turns, expect further clearance at 1630 Zulu, time now 1600 Zulu.").

You are X miles from the marker; turn left heading 120 degrees, maintain 3,000 feet until established on the localizer, cleared for the ILS 9R approach at KXYZ.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

What do you want?" is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

The Purpose of Life Is a Life of Purpose." This is Stan's answer to "If you could put a billboard anywhere and write anything on it, what would it say?" It is a quote from Robert Byrne.

But I will say this: the more clear I am about what my goals are, the more easily I can say no.