Monday, May 21, 2012

Here Are David Sarns’ Top 10 Life Lessons Learned From Dick & Norma Sarns, His Father & Mother


Question of the week? What key life lessons did you learn from your parents? 
1. The Value of Partnership and Team: Mom and Dad collaborated on all of their projects and businesses, always 50/50 partners.
2. Every Problem is an Opportunity: As I faced insurmountable problems as an MBA, my father would break the issues down into manageable and solvable pieces...much to my frustration.
3. Relentless Positive Action:  Rick Snyder must have borrowed this term from my parents.  They always focus on the positive, do not dwell on the negative, find the best in people and create a positive vision.
4. Life Long Learning: My father is a voracious reader of books, periodicals and newspapers.  He seeks out programs such as the AMA to continue his learning as well as other seminars.  I have never seen him without his notebook to write down key points he hears.
5. Be a Great Listener: They taught me that you learn more by listening than by speaking.  Listen intently and draw people out.
6. Calculated Risk Taking: On our travels up North my Father would challenge himself by attempting to travel to the next gas station which might be 25 miles away even as we showed close to empty on the gas gage.  We always made the next station, except for once, but even then we coasted into the station on fumes.
7. Loyalty: To husband and wife, family, friends, and employees.
8. Be Humble: It always take a team and no one individual can do it all.
9. Giving Back: Giving back to the community with our time, skills and resources.
10. To Be Continued: Many more life lessons to come.

Coach Rob
rob@leadersconnect.com
www.robertpasick.com


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