Great book

I just finished Monday Morning Mentoring by David Cottrell. It was a great book to read while writing performance reviews - really got me thinking about how we lead people and are led by people. We all want the best to come out at work but we loose focus. My two thoughts from this book for the day are:

1) What is your Main Thing?
Make sure you know it and work for it. If something doesn't fall within the main thing, you should find a way to say no. If everyone on your team knows what the Main Thing is, your work will be more targeted and productive. Like the old saying - if you don't know where you're going, how will you ever get there.

2) Are you a bucket filler or a bucket drainer?
We all have buckets of motivation that we have to try to keep full and leak free. However, when others are bringing you down, they've got their dipper in your bucket and don't make it worse by siphoning from someone else's because by filling their bucket, you fill yours too.