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You've gotta have heart All you really need is heart When the odds are sayin' you'll never win That's when the grin should start These lyrics are from the song, “Heart,” by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross from the Broadway musical “Damn Yankees” (1955). When we hear this song, we instinctively know what it means. But can you explain it? At the end of a hard-fought college basketball game, the winning coach said to the camera: “I’m proud of the way our guys played tonight. They showed a lot of heart.” Between two teams of roughly equivalent skills and motivation, it was the players’ inner strength that made the difference. A fifth-grader with a learning disability struggled each night to complete her math homework, but she kept at it and eventually earned a B. “She has such heart,” declared her mother. The outdoor stadium is filled with thousands of people. But it’s July, and this isn’t a sport event. It’s the local Relay for Life, an annual all-night celebration to raise money for the American Cancer Society. At ten o’clock, a high-spirited female voice can be heard on the loudspeaker, urging people to light their luminaries. “Who is that woman?” someone asks. Her friend replies, “Oh, that’s Julie Madison. She’ll be on the stage all night long. She’s got such a big heart.” About a particularly hard-working employee, the manager says, “We’re lucky to have him. He puts his heart and soul into his work.” When people use the word “heart,” they mean that someone demonstrates inner strength. She gives everything she’s got. Even though circumstances are difficult, she doesn’t give up. “Heart” isn’t a single human trait. It stands for dozens of personal strengths that help a person do the hard things when they have to be done, such as effort, persistence, courage, patience, compassion, integrity, responsibility, and many others. You have heart, and you can exhibit it any time you choose to do so.
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Dennis E. Coates is CEO of Performance Support Systems, author of MindFrames, a brain-based personality assessment system (www.initforlife.com) and co-founder of the Train-to-Ingrain alliance (www.train-to-ingrain.com, info@train-to-ingrain.com, 800-488-6463), which delivers a reinforcement-centered approach to learning and development that achieves permanent, measurable improvements in workplace behavior and positive impacts on business results.
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