Wednesday, July 28, 2010

'natural born leader' ?

"I think all leadership starts with self leadership", so in that respect we are all natural born leaders. In most areas hard categories can be confusing and rarely as useful as those who like to put people in boxes like to suggest.

Truly great/inspirational leaders rarely fit any particular model of "the leader" and often start out as the most unlikely candidate... check out recent history, where more people feared for Barracks life than how hard it would be to maintain his positive opinion rating. also check out -attributes-of-inspirational-leaders

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Rehab - The Jolly Boys

Friday, July 02, 2010

True to your Art

The foundations of the strongest buildings are sure because they can move, within limits!
The strongest tree bends in the storm to become the oldest tree it can be, it's roots do not move!
The effective person changes his path on the journey to remain true to the destination, one destination!
Perfect balance is perfect and never ending movement, around one point!
Your [He]art is your source of peace in the midst of the chaos that is life, be true to your [He]art!

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Primary Purpose





Many years ago, there was a lighthouse keeper who was given sufficient fuel to keep the light going for a month until further supplies would be delivered.

On the first night of his watch, a mother with young children asked if could he spare her some fuel as her family were frozen and they had no money until her husband came back from sea. He helped her out with a small ration of fuel.

One week later he had a similar request from another family.
The same thing happened with a different family the following week and each time the lighthouse keeper helped with a small donation of fuel.

At the end of the third week he ran out of fuel for the light.

The following night there was a storm and in the darkness a ship ran aground killing all of the twenty crew on board - including the husbands and fathers of the families he had helped.

At his trial the well intentioned lighthouse keeper was found guilty of manslaughter.

He'd made the mistake of taking his eye of his primary objective, with tragic consequences that caused devastating harm to the very people he'd tried to help.