If you can avoid the text and make the call do so.
If you can avoid the call and discuss in person do so.
If you can avoid the email and handwrite the note do so.
Your effectiveness and efficiency increases at the same rate your handshakes, eye to eye contacts, and note writing does.
You can’t be spammed – only your technology can be.
Across all lines of communication Human > Digital.
There’s a great leadership scene in the movie Dead Poets Society where Robin Williams, (the teacher/leader), gets up on his classroom desk and says, “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.”
Leadership takes its followers on a journey.
Leadership does not allow its followers thoughts and actions to remain idle.
Leadership doesn’t just like change – leadership creates and paves the way for change.
Leadership longs for its followers to experience discovery.
Leadership gets its fix on getting its followers from point a to point z.
Leadership provides the paint and canvas.
Leadership gives away the musical instruments, provides the music lessons, and then goes and find a stage for the follower to perform.
True leadership has its full focus on the followers and the movement they can co-create together.
What about art?
What about leaving this place better than you found it?
What about you changing the world?
What about “why”?
What about creating a movement?
What’s love got to do with it?
What about changing your industry standard?
What would the costumer feel about this?
What about redefining your roles(s)?
What about the potential music in all this noise?
We’ve got to adopt a pet peeve for all things normal.
Today is July 27, 2012.
Your successes and your failures today are all a byproduct of action in your previous days.
Success is your responsibility.
Happenstance is a lie.
Luck is only a reality to those that are fluent in laziness.
You didn’t get here by chance.
You did this.
Own it.
Tomorrow’s success is contingent on today’s action.
Hands:
Great for introducing yourself to others and making things out of other things. Service is their functionality.
Eyes:
Great for seeing – but seeing what no one else does in the moment, in the art, or in the chaos. Blessed is he whose eyes give him vision.
Mind:
Unfathomable processing speeds and comes preloaded with the latest creative software. All studies show this is one’s greatest gift.
Heart:
Created to be put into and/or given to some thing, cause, passion or idea. Guard it above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Prov 4:23
Question…
Are you being or becoming fully you?
#LTMP
“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas A Edison
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