Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive.
Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.
The difference between the top performers and the average or mediocre performers is not a great, massive difference. It is just a tiny difference because the top performers do things just a tiny bit.
All skills are learnable.
Take a deep breath, relax and imagine yourself exactly as you wish to be.
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.