Servant’s Servant

World-Class Clean: All Day, Every Day
World-Class Clean: All Day, Every Day

Who serves mankind as much as our trash collectors and cleaners?

To have a servant’s willingness to help others is among the noblest of qualities.

Don’t believe it. Leave your job and become a garbage collector, or a full-time toilet cleaner.

My guess is, you don’t have the guts. But if you did, consider what Martin Luther King said:

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

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The Most Misunderstood Leader?

Very Often, You Have To Figure Out What I'm Getting At
Very Often, You Have To Figure Out What I'm Getting At

Can you recognize the most misunderstood leader? She’s the one that isn’t focused on her career, isn’t focused on her next promotion.

What?

Exactly, it doesn’t make sense does it?

But once it does, you’ll completely understand why.

And maybe you’ll try to follow in her footsteps.

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Dang, I’m A Busy Man!

Ever feel like your life couldn’t get any busier? The United States suffers from an obesity epidemic. Agreed?

There’s another epidemic. It’s our time-starved society. The tough economy has made it even worse. We see it everywhere we look.

And then, to watch the CMA’s last night and hearing George Strait’s song, I immediately thought of this one, from Billy Ray Cyrus, entitled “Busy Man“. Maybe it will give you the courage or creativity you are looking for today.

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Don’t Shrink, Don’t Boast

What If Flowers Were Worried About Showing Off?
What If Flowers Were Worried About Showing Off?

This is a lesson I still struggle with – From Tony Dungy’s second favorite film, Coach Carter (thanks to Skip for sending it our way):

Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you…as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

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Slow & Steady

Not All Trails In Life Are Clearly Marked
Not All Trails In Life Are Clearly Marked

Ever have big plans and a long list of things to get done? How do those days normally work out? If you’re like me you win some and you loose some.

Friday, three days ago, was like that. Some stuff needing to get done, didn’t. Some stuff not on the list got done, wow!

One step closer to some big dreams.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Patience is a virtue. So is humility. And forgiveness. Even in the business world.

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