Leadership is hard and involves a ton of change

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Leadership. We all want to work for great leaders, yet they’re rare. This makes for long days.

We all wish our politicians were great, but alas, it often seems like a comedy of errors. This makes for a long four years.

How often do we act on our own desire to live with great personal leadership? This makes for a long, probably more-mediocre-then-we’d-like life.

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The one thing that is shamefully rare in today’s competitive business world

Sara Bareilles’ new song Brave crossed Mid Life Celebration’s path on exactly the right day. Talk about timing.

Had an intense, and extraordinarily useful conversation from an unlikely source.

The topic yesterday was being brave.

My argument was that I was not being brave. But I argued I was, with humility as the first filter.

It dawned on me that humility is rare.

Shamefully rare.

And practicing the art of humility can stun people because they can’t even tell what it is.

 

 

This was an exciting discovery to realize how far I’ve come. Hope you are finding surprising and useful ways to gauge your progress.

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He told the guy something astonishing

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Not that guy and not those seats

 

He told the guy something astonishing. He said, “I see you speaking in packed stadiums”.

It was a freaky, fairly random, and completely unsolicited comment.

The recipient felt unusually comfortable with the surprise.

Isn’t our first goal personal transformation. (yet no one clarifies and reinforces this)

A big part of this is the art of humility and compassion.

Two extraordinarily rare business attributes.

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