If you believe as I do that you were born to win, you're going to have to find your fears and start facing them.

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

Procrastination is paralysis by fear, not astute planning. If you regularly have difficulty making decisions, look below the surface to identify your fears, and address them. Until you do, you'll be spending a lot of nights with the frogs.

She wasn't a cowardIf she were she would have retreated back into her shell years before and pulled back entirely from life. She was a fighter. Life knocked her down, and she coped by getting up and moving on.

I don't want to be alone," she whispered. "You won't be, through any of this." "It feels very alone. Death is like a cloud coming near that shadows and blocks the color from life." "I'll be here, Rae. Whatever you need. And God promised He would never leave you. He meant it. For the rest of eternity you will never be alone.

Whatever you most fear- abandonment, rejection, failure, loss, humiliation, has already occurred to you. The threats you perceive around you now, or coming at you in the future are the long shadow being cast by your past.

She was strong. She was brave. She could feel the fear and do it anyway. God would provide all she needed.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.