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As a leader, reward honesty. When someone comes clean with you, praise them for owning up to it. That doesn't mean to go overboard. You still need to work towards a resolution and remind people that new mistakes are okay but recurring ones are not.

Physiology can be felt. If you're down, others will see it and feel it. Your bad days and bad moods are contagious. What are you doing to prevent bad energy from spreading?

Change your posture. Move your body. Choose your words smartly and say them with passion. Call it "fake it 'till you make it" but the impact on both you and your team is real.

When I work on Saturdays, I tell my family that I have to work because my team is working. I say, "They gave us this life, and I need to support them." What truly motivates you to work on weekends and go above and beyond?

Don't expect others to give more than you are giving. If you have to drag yourself to the office, re-examine your "why" and do the work required to answer the question: "Who do you want to be?"

This quote from Jim Carrey: "If you're not willing to downgrade your lifestyle for a year to have a lifestyle you want forever, you care too much what other people think."

Two moves. Decide on the exact life what you want and envision what it looks like. Then put in the hard work needed to attain it. If you're not willing to raise your work ethic, you have no choice but to lessen the vision of your ideal life.

Losing. Losing is an in-your-face reminder of what you need to improve. When you're winning, you develop more and more blind spots. When you lose, it forces you to search for your flaws, address them, and develop killer instinct.

Understand that most winners (Michael Jordan comes to mind) first had to learn how to lose. When you lose in anything, don't miss the opportunity to develop the resolve it teaches you.