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All of Us Know, That We Are Better than Who We Are
In our existence, time is of the essence, but it holds little power when compared to the essence of our actions performed in time. While the 24 hour measure of time exists in each of our lives, our existence within its minutes or seconds is not promised. The utilization of what time we do have available, holds great bearing in what we produce and contribute throughout our lives. All of us know, that we are better than who we are, because our greatest works, exists in our greatest efforts.
When those efforts are not applied, we are often settled in those results.
But it is important to remember, that even in the minimal measures of our efforts, we will find a better us. Though it may not always be the better us that we are seeking. It may be the best better us achievable through the amount of measurable effort, we have supplied within our lives. On many occasions, that in which we seek requires more than a minimal effort. Yet, even in its smallest measure, it is still a measurement of success. I say this because success is measured by the initiator and the recipient. Often, they are the same person.
The better us cannot avoid showing up in the results of our best efforts. It has consistently been demonstrated by many of the worlds most accomplished people. While many people are challenged with physical, emotional and spiritual challenges. I believe that we are taught through history that even the greatest of challenges can be overcome through doing our best.
People like:
- Ludwig Van Beethoven who overcame the challenge of deafness to compose some of the greatest music ever heard.
- Theodore Roosevelt’s achievement in becoming President of the United States though he was challenged with the ailment of polio.
- Abraham Lincoln’s achievement in becoming one of history’s greatest leaders though he was challenged with an emotional mood disorder.
- John F. Kennedy rewarded the world with some of the greatest speeches ever heard, though his physical ailment of asthma challenged his breathing.
- Albert Einstein, shared the ideas and discoveries of one of the greatest minds of all history. His challenge of asperger syndrome did not restrict his efforts of sharing those ideas that have effected our lives forever.
You see, when we look deep within ourselves to overcome whatever hurdle that has been placed before us as a challenge in our lives, we will find that the better us, is waiting to step forward. We only have to take action in opening the door to allow its entrance.
How do you feel about the achievements of the better you?
I’d like to know….
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Will Power Does Not Last, Anchors Do
While the encouragement of will power within your life does offer opportunity and success to those actions and commitments that you have deemed to be important. Will power does not last. It is without a doubt that in it’s own rank, will power serves a great purpose in your life. Yet, it cannot encourage consistency in your performance when it is the strongest application contributing to your goal.
Will power alone may encourage belief, enthusiasm, possibility and a stronger want for achievement. What is does not do is provide the support needed to perform at your best consistently toward a given goal. It is the power offered in anchoring your goal emotionally that establishes a purpose that is most useful to your ambitions of achievement. This emotional link is what I will refer to as your anchor within this article.
Anchors have never been, nor ever will be simple to identify or establish. Yet, they are simple to maintain. Often, anchors are created or founded in the heart of those that understand its purpose. In this understanding, you will find a commitment that is strongly tied to the anchor via emotion or past experiences. The success in reaching your goal is not restricted to you establishing one anchor for one goal. The amount of anchors to be established is up to you.
In many instances, an anchor has history with the establisher. This history does not have to be long termed, it just has to be emotionally attached to the anchors establisher. Since emotion is such a familiar contribution of our personalities, its simplicity is encouraged by its never ending supply.
It does not take a miracle to establish an anchor.
It does not take ambition to establish an anchor.
What it takes is for you to open your mind, and your heart to seeking why this goal is so important to you. When this importance has been established, grab hold of your anchors. Your goals will appreciate your actions.
How do you feel about establishing anchors in your life?
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When The Student is Ready, The Teacher Will Come
In life there are many cliché that you will encounter throughout your daily existence. It is important to keep in mind that each of these cliché were created with an intention to describe an emotion or life experience of someone that may or may not have truly believed in its meaning. Very similar to many of the creations within a person’s life, a cliché not only takes on a life of its own, but also adapts its meaning in accordance with its recipient.
When a cliché is embraced by someone other than its originator, its new ownership is easy to recognize through the owner’s acceptance and expression of this cliché.
A few of the most recognized cliché are:
- Early to bed, early to rise makes a person healthy, wealthy and wise
- An apple a day, keeps the doctor away
- Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.
- The best things in life are free
- You get what you pay for
- You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time
- The truth will set you free
But my personal favorite of all cliché is “When the student is ready, the teacher will come”.
This cliché has had a dramatic effect on my life and the lives of those that have crossed my path. I have personally embraced this cliché by continuously seeking and sharing knowledge. In my belief in the power and respect of knowledge, I encourage knowledge to not only be available for me to find in books, audio and life experience. But also present itself through others introducing knowledge through their offerings, expressions and experiences.
“When the student is ready, the teacher will come” is not encouraged through waiting for a teacher because a person feels deserving. It is encouraged through application, preparation, acceptance, willingness, growth, confidence and commitment to your own development. In other words, you have the power to welcome the teacher through your own actions and belief.
Growth is obvious to those that are seeking in the same direction of life that you are. It is not the curriculum that attracts the teacher, it is your demonstration of commitment to your growth that welcomes the teacher into your life.
In the nature of how life functions, teachers will always seek students. It is the students choice to prepare for the next teacher, who will be arriving with the next lesson.
How do you feel about the cliché “When the student is ready, the teacher will come”? I’d like to know….
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Today I watched rerun episodes of the Sunday Best show for 2009. This is an amazing show that showcases gospel talent and spiritual messages that are beyond measure. The winner was Y’Anna Crawley, an amazing songstress that walked one step at a time toward God’s promise to her within her life. Y’anna Crawley’s faithful walk and God’s promise ,encouraged great emotions within me. As a result, this praise is my post.
There is nothing like stepping into the promise of your life. At times it may appear to be overwhelming. But in the light of even those cloudy days, you just know that you are in the presence of something greater than yourself and your circumstances. You know, because when you exercise the gifts encouraged in the promise that God has made to you within your life. Your purpose becomes obvious and clear. You know that only God could have embedded this much joy into your heart. It is an amazing experience that brings peace and the energy needed to take one step after the other.
Trusting in receiving your promise starts with belief in that which God has rewarded into your life. He made you a promise that he would never leave your side. You only have take one step towards his promise to understand that your purpose is close an near. Everything that has ever been demonstrated in your life through his promise, has fed into the content and development your purpose.
What he promises can not be evicted from your life. It has not has no expiration date. It is written in the base of your heart. You only have to let him know that you believe. You believe in his mercy. You believe in his grace. You believe in his possibilities. You believe in God’s power to weather the storms of your life. You know that God will never let you done. You know that a promise, is a promise, is a promise when God says “It is Done, Thank You My Good and Faithful Servant”.
Lord I believe…
Lord I believe in Your Miracle!
Lord I believe….I Receive It!…Lord, I Receive All of Your Promises!
Lord, Thank You For The Message Shared Through Y’Anna Crawley’s Wonderful Gift… She truly worked in the faith of your promise.
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The Opportunity of Humility in Your Life_is a Great Gift
It is an amazing gift to have been created by the highest source in the universe. Especially with such physical and mechanical brilliance that is filled with spirituality and a collection of thoughts that assist you in your daily activities and decisions. There should be no mistake or misfortune considered when you look deep within yourself for a new reality and discover that this new reality is not needed, because this reality that you are seeking, has always existed within yourself.
While you benefit from this gift without even the slightest amount of effort needed to be applied, you are held accountable for your own actions. For what you do, with what you have been given, not only has the power to grow your life, but also the lives of all those that cross your path.
In its brilliance, it is common for you to become filled with pride and a want for even more brilliance. In this pride you may often forget about your true purpose and usage of this gift. In the simplicity of the phrase, “Pride cometh before the fall” you will find the truth. Amongst this truth exists another one of the greatest gifts you will ever give yourself. It is the gift of humility. Often, humility does not show its face, until you are ready for its lessons.
Though humility may at first seem unfamiliar to the commitments of your life. It’s warm presence and comforting grip on your found reality is an eye opening experience, that is easy to embrace. You should also remember, that it is in humility that you will forever favor the lessons that life will so graciously teach you, about how to be humble during the celebrating days of your life.
While others may stumble through an acceptance or an embracing of humility within their lives. You will embrace the opportunity of exercising humility, while taking actions of discovery within your life. In this discovery you will find, that within the humble heart, there will always exist the messages of your life.
How do you feel about the gifts of humility? I’d like to know….
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Exercise the Opportunities of Leadership, It Can Be a Great Experience
There are many opportunities for a leader to acknowledge the needs of their team and the need of their employer. While many leaders are well intentioned in their efforts, they are following the managing exercises of those leaders that introduced leadership to them under circumstances that either no longer exists or are out of date with the changes of society and the employer’s needs.
Many leaders fall into the regretful trap that I call, “Arriving”. Arriving is a leaders acknowledgement of his or her new title and authority, but not their actual responsibilities. In many cases this may not be the leaders intention . It may actually be the only example that a leader has ever been shown by the leaders of their past, therefore the belief exists that the actions are an appropriate choice. It is important to remember that a leader can only lead to the extent of their own experiences and education.
Though remembering and understanding the past is needed in leadership. The past does not dictate present needs. Leadership has never been, nor ever will be a responsibility that depends upon what a leader once knew or used to do. It is a real time responsibility that requires a leaders skills to remain as fresh and sharp as the workplace tasks that present themselves on a daily basis. While your employer may offer education. Leadership skills should never be limited to the education provided by an employer. This education alone serves the initial goals and intentions of the employer, but does not sharpen the skills of the leader to the extent needed for a leader to achieve his or her highest potential.
In leadership your ultimate responsibility is to support and encourage your employers goals through utilizing both those tools that have been provided by your employer and the education and experiences influenced by your own efforts and actions. Education and application are close relatives in the exercise of leadership. Neither of these contributing relatives can achieve their highest level of success without the application of the other. When a leader accumulates education with the intention of sharing, the leader opens the door for everyone to experience mutual based opportunities.
John Quincy Adams was once quoted as saying,”If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”. In this quote you will find leadership responsibilities at a level that embraces lessons filled with new ideas and a need to seek creative approaches to learning. While sharing these acquired lessons with your teammates and peers you will encounter one of leaderships greatest reward, the reward of helping others achieve their goals. After all leadership starts with giving, not receiving. While this quote inspires big actions to achieve big results, it can be a favorable goal for a committed leader and a great experience for the leader’s teammates and peers.
How do you intend to exercise the opportunities in leadership? I’d like to know…..
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Misguided Values are Not Supportive of an Organizations Growth
An organizations values can be easily contaminated with restrictive thought and growth if its caretakers are not willing to exercise the practices required to avoid encouraging what I call, misguided values. Misguided values are not only contagious, but also poisonous to a healthy, supportive and thriving organization.
In most cases misguided values within an organization are encouraged through its leaders lack of will to change as the organization changes. This action that influences this lack does not to have to be embraced by the organization’s entire leadership team for it to be effective. It only requires the embrace of a few of the organizations most influential leaders for it to develop into a very effective poison.
Misguided values are often supported by fear, control, envy, procrastination and lack of understanding of the true purpose in the organizations reasons and opportunities in growth and change. The most challenging opportunity that any leader can encounter is change.
Change is not always predictable. Therefore many leaders are threatened by their belief in its possibilities of lessening their control and contributions to the organization that they have invested what they believe to be the most important career days of their lives.
In this lack of understanding, along with all of the other weakening supports, these leaders are forgetting five of the most important rules of leadership.
- Rule #1 – No one builds an organization by themselves.
- Rule #2 – The life of the organization exists in its ability to adapt to change and grow in its process.
- Rule #3 – Leaders are not the primary life-blood of the organization, this honor exists in the collaboration of all of its employees.
- Rule #4 – Good leadership does not start at the encounter of change, it is developed throughout the journey of change.
- and Rule #5 – Misguided values, only encourage more misguided values.
In leading through these type of challenges within an organization the best of this organizations leaders realize that change is actually one of a leaders greatest allies. It encourages opportunities that may not have existed within the organization and develops new talents in those employees that embrace its possibilities.
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Falling On the Sword, Is This Term Appropriately Used?
As a leader you should consistently maintain responsibility for the actions of your team. Even its most noble of efforts, it is not the most pleasant action to stand upon. But it is amongst the most rewarding.
I’ve often heard this action termed as, “Falling on the sword”. In this term you will not only find a harsh description of this leadership action, but an effort to appear to be noble and sacrificial in rankings. It sounds cool and responsible, but is it the most appropriate terminology for this action. It gives off the notion that the action of your team member is so discrediting, useless and thoughtless that only severe action would rectify the failure in results.
While no one, not even the strongest of leaders encourage failure to be the result of their team’s actions. It is important to ask yourself a very important question, “Are you encouraging this extreme terminology due to the measure and repercussions of the failure or is this terminology encouraged through your own emotions of fear and restraint in really wanting to take responsibility for your team’s actions”.
In being honest with yourself, you may find that a mixture of both encouragements exists in this hesitance. It does not mean that you are less of leader because of your hesitation in leaping toward taking full responsibility for your team’s actions. It just means that you are cautious in your selective approach to accepting responsibility for actions that you did not execute yourself. It’s human and it’s normal. Even leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa were at some point hesitant in stepping forward when assuming responsibility for someone else’s actions. In their greatness they utilized this challenge to their advantages and so should you.
Hesitance should never become an impotent restrainer of your life. When this challenge presents itself, it is important to look deep into your most confident beliefs in leadership and the support of your team to find those principles that you cherish most. In these principles you will find the clarity needed to lead yourself and your team through the most challenging of failures. Besides, failure is just another word used to describe opportunity. In opportunity, everybody learns new lessons when you make decisions that strengthen the team instead of weakening its belief in each other and its integrity.
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Last week I watched a new television show called, The Undercover Boss, on CBS. As a leader that has spent his career encouraging and teaching others to manifest the best in their lives, I am extremely moved by the importance of this show. The show offers an amazing approach and opportunity in awareness for the leaders of today. Larry, the President of Waste Management went undercover within his organization to seek awareness in the daily challenges of his employees. It was an amazing experience for Larry. Though he has always known that his employees are very hard workers, he was impressed to experience the commitment that existed within his company.
He found that his project evolved into a journey that would encourage him to not only make changes in the lives of his employees, but also make changes in his actions as a leader. While on this journey he encountered procedures that were implemented outside of the corporate policies, employees that were doing the job of 3 people, employees that possessed the key attitude traits that inspire great performances to arise even in the most challenging of responsibilities and employees that are so committed to their jobs that even the challenges of their personal lives don’t discourage them from performing at their best.
The effort taken in seeking this type of knowledge, experience and wisdom from the inside of any company is an impressive approach to aspiring a productive workplace that encourages quality relationships amongst its leadership and employees. I believe that this is television at its best. It encourages strong relations and productivity in the workplace. I highly recommend this show for viewing. Even the strongest of leaders will benefit from the lessons of The Undercover Boss.
How do you feel about the efforts of leadership shown on The Undercover Boss? I’d like to know…
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The conglomerate of personalities that exist on any team can be a challenge to manage for even the most seasoned and quality driven leaders. But the ability to manage as a quality driven leader has nothing to do with the seasoning of a leader, it has more to do with your commitment to application in being a quality driven leader. 
One of the greatest appreciations you will benefit from in becoming a quality driven leader is the benefit of developing your team into what is called a mastermind team. The mastermind team acknowledges and respects the team leader, but also benefits from an understanding, that shared intelligence is in the best interest of the team.
The sharing in intelligence is especially beneficial when you are managing multiple business and life cultures within a given team. In this environment, each team member brings new perspectives and ideas to the team. This team is not without challenge. One of its greatest challenges exists in the leader’s willingness to keep an open mind during the collaboration of ideas when the mastermind team is in action.
As a leader, your greatest tool in managing through this challenge is your ability to listen closely for the needs and ideas of your team members. Not utilizing this tool will definitely be a downfall of your own development and the development of your team.
People are typically very descriptive in illustrating their needs and sharing their thoughts, if they feel as though their ideas are welcomed and respected. You as the leader must remain cognitive of your intent to listen and utilize what you hear to strengthen your team. It is important for you to remember that your team depends upon you as their leader to give them direction. In your attention to listening you will not only increase your knowledge of the tempo and needs of your team, but also learn more about their expectations of you as their leader.
While you as the leader will always have your own ideas of what actions should be taken or how tasks should be performed, it is important for you to encourage your team to share their ideas throughout the performance of any task. This encouragement, you will not regret…
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Life has a tendency to introduce expectations that encourage you to forget or not appreciate what you have already accomplished in your life. In its need to process activity through measurement and both new and repetitive action it
introduces those challenges that can often become consuming of not only our talents, but also our courage.
It is important for us to remember that life does not give us courage. Life gives us opportunities to practice the actions needed to accumulate courage. Courage holds no prejudice for those that try to do their best, even in the midst of of their weakest moments. I believe that courage is an open door to the lessons needed to meet life’s expectations. It is through our choice to execute the will to open and enter the doors of courage that we get what we deserve; more courage, a better life and the greatest of opportunities.
Many people find courage in some of the most unfamiliar places. I have personally known people to have found courage within a bottle of alcohol, at the end of tobacco, in the ball of their fists and even in the controlling of others.
These are short sided and short lived engagements of limited levels of courage. This courage is absent when the vices, tools or other people are unavailable for support . The courage that lasts, is what I call Real Courage. It is courage that is earned through quality effort, will, integrity and action. No vice, tool or other person can give you this kind of courage. You are the only person that can engage long lasting and self sustaining Real Courage into your life.
Life may introduce its own expectations, but if you have personally introduced Real Courage into your life, none of its expectations will hold any bearing on your opportunities.
How do you feel about life’s expectations and your execution of Real Courage? I’d like to know…..
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