Help Someone Become A Better Version

When you serve as a leader with other people the goal is not to have them become like you.

Your goal as a leader is to get to know each person individually, recognize their gifts, identify their potential and help them become the best version of themselves. Help them be better.

There is a lot that goes into that. A lot of relationship building. Building trust, respect and mutual collaboration. Those are leadership lessons in themselves.

The goal of our leadership and the greatest gift you can give to those you work with is to help them see their potential and then they allow you to help them grow and become the best version of themselves.

Helping someone be better is not only a gift to them but also a gift to you as a leader. You have been allowed into their life and invited to walk alongside the road and journey they are on. Don’t take that responsibility lightly.

Be Blessed!

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Thankful For The Success

Success is a blessing and something to be thankful for. When you have gone through the trials and the failures success becomes even sweeter.

The balance is to not bask in it for too long. Life is a continuous journey and a road that we must continue to travel.

“Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.” – Henry Kissinger

Your planning, hard work and perseverance will lead to success. Take time to be thankful for it and even celebrate it.

It is OK to do that.

Then move to what’s next.

Thankful For The Failures

There are trials that we get through and then there are times that we flat out fail.

Some of the failures are of our own doing and some are out of our control and just happen.

No matter what circumstances cause you to fail it is always an opportunity to grow, to change and to become better because of it.

If we are able to do that then is it really failure? No. We can, check that, WE WILL be better because of it and as we look back we can be thankful for it.

“Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.”
–John Wooden

Don’t fear failure. It never has to define you. How you use it and grow from it is what will define you.

As we grow and become better we will be thankful as well.

#beblessed

Thankful For The Trials

I know we are all aware that this week is Thanksgiving week. A week to take some time to reflect and rejoice in all that you have and all that you have experienced. Let’s also take some time together to look briefly at some things in our leadership and personal journey that can all be used to help us grow and become better. It’s a matter of perspective.

Today be Thankful for the Trials. They are never fun to go through and deal with but trials are a part of life and can be used to make us wiser and better.

I also believe that the trials we go through, as a leader and as a person, are preparing us to help someone else through the same thing down the road. The trials that we go through can all be used for good if we will let them.

Learn from your trials and then be alert to the opportunities where your experiences can be used to help someone else through the trials they are going through.

Good times and bad times… All meant for your good and to be used to help someone else.

Be thankful for your trials.

It’s a matter of perspective.

Look Your Dreams Right In The Eyes!

What dream are you chasing? Does it look menacing and intimidating as you look at it? It should and I hope it does otherwise it is not big enough.

We tend to make our dreams big but then at the first sign of conflict or struggle begin to scale them back and settle back into a comfortable reality.

Don’t do it! Chase your dream. Pursue your dream. Most importantly, you are going to have to work for your dream. Look your dream square in the eyes and go get it.

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at the end of your journey. If you just look for the safe path you will be turning your back on a dream that is bigger than you are and you will settle for the status quo.

So hear you are with a decision to make.

Pursue and chase that dream or turn and run away?

If you run away you will be running away the rest of your life.

Stare into your dream. Breath life into your dream.

Is it time?

Let’s go to work.