“Optimism is an attitude that shows up around springtime.” –Joel Garcia
The Spring season is my favorite time of year. Have you ever noticed how people’s attitudes change around springtime? It’s a time to enjoy better weather and sunshine, to get into that garden to plant your favorite plants or vegetables, to hike or work out in the open air. Most certainly, springtime has a way of changing people’s attitudes.
I’m currently writing a book on Leadership… and these are some thoughts that have surfaced during the first part of 2013:
“Leaders develop foresight by fostering skills in perception and knowledge.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 1st 2013)
“A leader is the first one to show up and the last one to leave; the one who inspires as well as perspires.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 2nd 2013)
“Passion is possessing an extreme focus and dedication towards achieving a goal.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 3rd 2013)
“A masterful leader exerts influence for the purpose of transformation through collaborative effort.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 5th 2013)
“Eternity is just not a place reserved for us; it lives in our hearts and expresses itself through deeds done to others.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 5th 2013)
“You were created as a mystery; an unfolding story revealed through time.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 10th 2013)
“Vision is an invitation to live a stimulating life.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 10th 2013)
“Passion is evident when optimum energy is released, and dynamic synergy is increased.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 11th 2013)
“Leaders enlarge the Kingdom within to influence the world throughout.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 12th 2013)
“The wise shut up long enough for all the stupid people to stop talking.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 12th 2013)
“Leaders create unrestrained atmospheres where followers feel engaged to rise above their limitations.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 26th 2013)
“Influence is a gift and a study; it is acquired through learning and nurtured by growing.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 27th 2013)
“Leaders dwell in the realm called “above and beyond”, making the extraordinary look common.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 27th 2013)
“Leadership is reflecting the values others want in themselves, then communicating a vision commensurate with those values.” –Joel Garcia (Jan. 29th 2013)
“The leader who offers help gives hope.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 1st 2013)
“Significance means, ‘I matter, and have value.’ Purpose is when my journey matters and adds value to others.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 6th 2013)
“A promise is an intangible, until you connect it to a source who can fulfill that promise.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 8th 2013)
“The critical factor in personal development is not what a leader learns but what he or she unlearns in the process of learning.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 10th 2013)
“Chaos is the absence of wisdom.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 12th 2013)
“Influence is the transfer of trust, and with that trust comes power.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 14th 2013)
“If it’s not yours in the first place, you’ve got nothing to lose.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 17th 2013)
“Transition is the ability to perceive change coming, to pause and understand its significance and adapt to it.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 22 2013)
“Leaders who walk in integrity live in controversy.” –Joel Garcia (Feb. 25th 2013)
“A leader’s quest is to turn challenges into solutions.” –Joel Garcia (March 16, 2013)
“Competent leaders create stable and secure working environments.” –Joel Garcia (March 16, 2013)
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Please feel free to copy and paste wherever you like… note, I’ve added the date only to remember the date I came up with these original quotes. I google all my quotes to ensure I am not infringing on anyone’s thoughts, ideas or quotes.
These are Latino Townhall’s Top 25 Quotes of 2012, which are provided for your motivation and inspiration. I have provided my name at the end of each quote in case you want to copy and paste on social media sites. Thank you for your support in 2012:
‘Revelation plus action determines your destiny.” –Joel Garcia (February 16, 2012)
‘Immature love sees people through a lens of imperfection; while perfect love covers people’s imperfections.” –Joel Garcia (March 18, 2012)
The darkest secrets are the hardest to keep.” –Joel Garcia (July 22nd 2012)
‘Be unafraid of the opposition regardless of their size, power and techniques.” -Joel Garcia (August 8, 2012)
Strategies open up new opportunities; opportunities require new strategies. –Joel Garcia (August 13, 2012)
Purpose is an Oasis for those struggling with life’s complexities. –Joel Garcia (Sept. 3rd 2012)
‘Encouragement resounds within, flattery rebounds without.” –Joel Garcia (Sept 29th 2012)
‘You cannot have ascendency without mastery.” –Joel Garcia (October 18th 2012)
There’s nothing more refreshing than fresh vision.” –Joel Garcia (Oct. 21, 2012)
After you get an idea, you have to give it some thought.” -Joel Garcia (October 23, 2012)
‘I attended church for a girl but I found Jesus instead. Now, I’m married to both.” -Joel Garcia (Nov. 10th 2012)
‘God is an artist; His handiwork is all around you, from morning’s dawn til’ twilights last gleam. ” -Joel Garcia (Nov. 11th 2012)
Leaders are on a fierce course of struggle and change, they don’t blame those who want to stay behind.” –Joel Garcia (Nov. 14th 2012)
‘The “ouchy” in your spirit is the anointing, because that’s the place God wants to transform.”
–Joel Garcia (Nov. 14th 2012)
‘The function of a great teacher is to expose the thoughts of a student not impose their own upon them.” -Joel Garcia (Nov. 18th 2012)
‘It’s interesting how the Christian holidays bring out the critics; Christmas draws out the atheists, and Easter the skeptics.” –Joel Garcia (Nov. 18th 2012)
‘Character doesn’t compromise integrity for convenience.” -Joel Garcia
(Nov. 22nd 2012)
‘An illusion is a lie, which hasn’t been stripped of its falsehood.”
–Joel Garcia (Nov. 24th 2012)
‘Leadership isn’t about being in charge, it’s about bringing change.” –Joel Garcia (Nov. 29th 2012)
‘You cannot measure potential – only performance; results carry the day over good intentions.” –Joel Garcia
(December 1st 2012)
‘Forgive people fully, it takes more energy not to.” –Joel Garcia (December 2, 2012)
‘It is inevitable, Christians will experience trials because to extend God’s kingdom requires an immersion in the art of spiritual warfare.” –Joel Garcia (December 5, 2012)
‘Only the faithful stumble into their destiny.” -Joel Garcia (Dec. 16th 2012)
These are Latino Townhall’s Top 25 Quotes of 2011, which are provided to inspire you to stimulate your thinking, and help you through times of difficulty. I have provided my name at the end of each quote in case you want to copy and paste on social media sites. Thank you for your support in 2011:To overcome incompetence do not stand-alone rather deepen your pool of knowledge by standing alongside others. –Joel Garcia (April 2011)
Hope is the assurance of a release date from your wilderness journey. –Joel Garcia (July 2011)
Leaders who reinvent themselves see things in a whole new way, therefore, driving needed change in their environment. –Joel Garcia (Aug. 2011)
Complaints measure your ineffectiveness, while solutions measure your effectiveness. -Joel Garcia (Aug. 2011)
When a man loses his moral compass, he lands in desolate places. –Joel Garcia (Sept. 2011)
The gift of change is loss; if we don’t learn to let go we’ll never change. –Joel Garcia (Sept. 2011)
You can’t “cherry pick” your character, it’s cultivated through time, choice and action. -Joel Garcia (Oct. 2011)
Submission doesn’t come when you ask for it; it happens when you’ve work for it. –Joel Garcia (November 28, 2011)
