We talk a lot in class about things we need to do to be leaders. We are receiving 'training' for the tough situations in life, in which we will hopefully repeat from our training and 'lead'. But being a leader is supposed to be easy, right?
It is easy until you have to humble yourself because you just found out how hard being a true leader actually is. Life isn't easy, it is hard. Hard circumstances aren't fun or desirable, but if we use them right, they will humble us. That is what leadership is.
Life is full of difficult people, circumstances, and temptations. How do you respond? I can answer for you. Everyone of us responds the same way, it is a reaction not a response; we get angry, become frustrated, jealous, envious, prideful, sad, depressed, and the list goes on! Sure, some of these might describe you more or less than others do, but nevertheless, we can all be described this way at sometime or another. Well, if we react like this all the time, how do we become a leader?
This all ties together. Those difficult things in life aren't designed to show others how I act right, but to show myself just how wrong I am. When we focus inward at how we react, then we can respond by leading.
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There is some wisdom here. Life is always unexpected. That is why people are always surprised and disappointed with their lives. Just when you think life is the way you dreamed it would be, something pops right beside you. They're disappointed because reality did not meet their vision of what would happen. Then they React, just as Charlie said. BUT - being a leader means having a response to these realities. And one of the biggest traits is having Response-ability. This is the core meaning of the word responsibility . By being able to respond, NOT react to reality, the person is truly a leader who can be trusted in ANY situation.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you, Charlie. When we let our emotions rule over our lives, we usually end up regretting the decisions we made while doing so. Also, I love what Kubs wrote about RESPONSE-ability! How slick! Anyway, yeah...so true.
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