I was recently helping my 9-year-old neighbor with her homework. She’d had a long day at school, and we’d been studying for an hour and her brain was tired! As I pulled out the last book we needed to study she said, “I can’t do this!”
Immediately I interrupted, “Oh honey, don’t say that! Because…
[Tweet “Whatever your mouth speaks, your ears hear and your brain believes!””]
She immediately plugged both of her ears and said, “I can’t do this!”
A little over a week ago my husband and I rode motorcycle to a city that is about an hour away from where we are living.
It’s a city we visited for the first time nearly one year ago. A city that provided such a powerful visual of how leadership or the lack of it, impacts our world that I wrote about it right after our first visit, and have continued to talk about it throughout the year…
In September of 2012 I launched a book with 20 other co-authors that are deeply passionate about the overwhelming need for Character-Based Leaders to Instigate A Leadership Revolution in our world.
However, it was a first book for most of us and there was so much we didn’t know.
One of the biggest learning’s was that after more than a year of collaborating, writing, and editing our book… Getting it published and celebrating wasn’t the end of the story – it was only the beginning.
Have you ever had someone that works for you ask you for a meeting? …Try to share a concern with you? …Or passionately try to share an idea?
How do you react when that happens?
Have you ever considered that they are bringing you a gift?
~ Thank them for their courage.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Sooner or later we will all find ourselves in a situation where we could be leading up…
Each time I find myself in that situation the words below grow more powerful…
God grant me…
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change those I can.
And the wisdom to know the difference..
Last week I read a very powerful article by Alli Polin that emphasized how leadership thrives when two people work closely together and titles don’t matter.
