For several years now, I can say I’ve had a meaningful impact on an organization that has a meaningful impact on the whole world. I’ve worked behind the scenes as coach and instructor of the world’s best-and-brightest business minds, and chief among my clients has been the leading global management consulting firm.
I’ve learned a lot from that experience, but two things principally:

1. There are two types of people out there. I call them “The Entrepreneur” and “The Victim.” Victims have a negative vision of the future and – kinda like “negative goal setting” – their actions lead them inexorably to that bad future. They are waiting for things to happen “to” them. Entrepreneurs, in stark contrast, are out there making things happen “for” themselves and others, every day, because they are driven by a more positive vision of the future… and, as is the case with all of us, their daily actions push them unavoidably toward the future of their choice.

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