I’m very emotional this morning. Riots, people being killed, people feeling unsafe, people feeling hopeless because of an incompetent leader, neighborhoods being destroyed, pandemic, racism…the list goes on.

It’s so much to take in. If great leaders are going to emerge, nows the time. Someone needs to help navigate us. Who we have now isn’t cutting it. Great leaders unite, inspire, and help guide their people not use their ignorance to tear them apart. We need the great uniters not the great divider. We need to start being leaders and stop following blindly.

Challenge: Do something in your community to help unite your people and change the focus on this unrest.

Don’t let hate and fear blind us. If everyone did one small thing to help, then great changes will happen. Even if that one thing is voting and encouraging people to register to vote. Use your voice. Exercise your right to vote.

Listening check, observe yourself today. Are you really listening to understand? Or are you waiting to pass on your own wisdom instead?

I know we want to see immediate results in everything we, but that’s just not realistic. Everyone one is different. Everyone goes into anything with different skill sets, contacts, why’s, and goals.

Do NOT get into the comparison game. The person who sees results or success quickly might be 14 years into their “overnight success” when you’re only 1 year in. The difference is time, consistency, grit, and perseverance. You never lose or fail unless you quit.

Be gracious with your own personal growth and successes. We do not need to be our own worst critic. The world has enough of those. Keep on moving forward.

You’re time will come!

Want to be an exceptional leader? Hold yourself accountable for outcomes of your organization. Never defer blame. Never make excuses. That is the obligation of the exceptional leader.

Love this! Isn’t that interesting…”The future is programmed in the present. If we enter the present carrying thoughts of the past, we program the future to be just like the past. But when we enter the present without the past, we free the future to be unlike it.” In other words, your focus forms your future.