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Road Trip
Road Trip

Being a (great) leader makes you a target.  A target for small minds to nit-pick your faults and missteps.

Better get used to, eh?

Humans are perfectly imperfect. You know what I’m talking about, right?  Good.

Case in point:

The previous two days, on a New Mexico business trip, I had a misstep each morning. I’m committed to starting every single day on my knees. No exceptions.

The first day, it was only 7:30AM when I realized I had forgotten, and found a quiet place.

Yesterday, it was 7:30PM, as I pulled into our driveway.

So I went over to our canine (Pet) son’s grave and finished the day on my knees.

There are some things we should be flexible on and some we shouldn’t.

As a leader, are you clear about which is which, and why?

What If You Read A Book?

Why Read Books?
Why Read Books?

I mean, what if you read one book per month for a year?  Twelve books. Pretty impressive.

What if you did this for two years in a row?  Twenty-four books. Wow!

Now imagine doing this for a decade. Transformational: 120 books.

And there are people who’ve done this.

I have.

Then it dawned on me, “So what?”

Most Leaders Never Become Great

Man Will Never Fly
Man Will Never Fly

Misery loves company.

Them and they are four letter words.

Can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Leaders, many of them anyway, fail because they have such a hard time being criticized, even if it’s constructive.

I posted an April Fools bit for jeffnoel.com, but took it down minutes later, after a close friend said it wasn’t funny.

I thought it was, and still do.  But took it down anyway.

Okay, so I’m worried about what others may think with a single April Fool’s blog post?  Now imagine what President Obama must have to deal with.

Just the other morning, this was in our local Orlando Sentinel.  It’s about the insane press one Central Florida Urologist is getting, because he said Obama is bad.

Great leaders must be so passionate about their purpose, that they are willing to take the negative criticism. Otherwise, they will never make it.

Great leaders know that the sky is the limit and small minds will always say otherwise.