Leadership: What do you know?

Leadership: What do you know?

It is not what you get that leads to a life fulfilled. What leads to fulfilled life is who you become. What you become is what life is. What does all that you have or do not have made of you? You tell me. The greatest disservice anyone can do to self is limiting the capacity of self because of the ability and option of choice. How do you know the extent of your capacity? Rohn asked, “How tall will a tree grow?” All trees grow as much as it can and you should do as much.                                  

Stand Firm

Dig in, take a stand and stand your ground. Whatever you want is within reach. This might sound crazy but whatever you want is within reach. All you have to do is WANT it enough and form a congruency of desire, knowledge, and skill – habit. Everything is in the books and if you make the effort to develop the right mental scale, you will get what you want. Note: not what you need but what you deserve. How do you get what you want? By making yourself do the needful things even when your other members say not.

I have taken up walking, walking to a further out train station. It is a discipline of choice, not an easy chore I must tell you. My joints ache, my veins are stretching to their limits and my muscles tighten up but I must continue. Five days a week, I must walk from the Metro station, NW to GWU on 20th street NW. At the close of business, I must also walk to the Rhode Island train station. This is a 3.52-mile walk that used to take me 1hr and 20 min. I do that in about an hour because it is necessary and practices target perfection. I do not feel like embarking on this task all the time but I must. I just have to do it.

Getting yourself to do necessary things even when you do not feel like or want is a choice. That folk is what discipline is all about, and that is what turns your life around. Beginning today, from here and from now, what little thing can you get started with right now that, if you do consistently will get you going? Little steps, baby steps that could become an unconscious doing. It will yield you equity in 3 months from now, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years and so on. It is your choice.

You have most of it

I can tell you that you may not need much to get you to where you want to be. It is not that what little you have is too small and that you need a lot more to get going. No, the reverse is the case since you are reading this material now. You have a lot, you this much and what you need is this little to become purpose-driven, sophisticated, influential and unique.

What extra skills can you develop? What extra learning journey will you embark? What capacity can you increase to build you equity of mind, equity self-confidence, Self-Esteem, and self-respect so that you become highly efficacious and effective? What questions can you ask? What information do you seek and what doors are you knocking on?

What you are is what you get

You don’t get paid for the time you spent at work, Jim said. You are paid for the value you bring to the table and to the marketplace. We live in a VALUE centric world folks. You don’t say! Your value is actually, what you know, what you found out, what you read, what people thought you, what you teach yourself, what you learned and the influence you have on your business and people. You can actually increase your worth by increasing your value but, I bet you can't say that about your time. You can't increase or affect your time. You can get better and become an above average person by simply making small and easy changes that you may decide to get into today, after reading this literature. The only way and means for doing this are to find out so that you ask the right questions. The turf questions that is.

Be aware of where they are taking you

Bertolt Brecht was credited with the quotes that “The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

Ignorance is dangerous.

Don’t we believe that we are where we are because we choose not to know what we need to know? Choose not educate ourselves and understand what we have and what is available? Why do we choose not to examine what we met here, affect them or even attempt to find a way to maintain them? Why do we choose not to question what we were told? Don’t we want to know the intent of the rules, guides, and laws that were made to govern us? Don’t we believe that poverty of the mind is a sure bet to economic poverty? Don’t we know that poverty of the mind is like a non-return valve passage to low self-esteem, self-respect and subsequently, less self-efficacy? If you don't know, you become tentative, timid and you take hesitant steps. You point fingers and lay blames.

Fear

Branden said that some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy and some speak as if their intention is that you not be able to hear them, either because they mumble or speak faintly horrible. So many of shout and signal internal weakness that is masked as outer strength. They signal at the most crudely obvious level that they do not feel they have a right to exist. These are the embodiment of lack of knowledge. How can passivity be your identity?

What you should know

Take interest in what goes on around you. Find information that you never know was made for you. Maybe you need a second look at the information you had looked at before. I am sure most of us have looked at something or someplace and had seen what has been there all along but was not noticed at the first or even a couple looks. What is going on around you? How does money work in you immediacy? The government, taxes, how does the government in your local government work? How do they function, and where is the money that is used to compensate everyone coming from? Who pays whom and who is responsible for what?

What goes on there?

What is your state budget? What is your local government budget? Who is your local council member and what is his/her job? What and how many staff does he/she have and what are their duties? Do you have town hall meetings and are they open or closed sessions to the public?

What is your vision? What do you know about your vision? What information do you have about your vision? How do you feel about your vision? What are you doing, your activities about your vision?

Conclusion

An informed consumer is an educated consumer and everything has a price, and if you pay the price, you will get the profit. “Price & Profit”

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Oji