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Revisiting Obstacles

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A year ago I wrote about the proper way to think about obstacles.  They aren’t reasons to change course.  They may be lessons we need to learn or tests for our convictions.  If you are committed to reaching your goals then  you need to be  overcoming  obstacles instead of avoiding them.

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Originally posted 2011-01-14 10:22:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Stirring Things Up

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crowd Stirring Things UpNiccolo Machiavelli: Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

I attended a leadership conference last weekend.  The key element I get from these weekends is vision.  In normal life, most of the people with whom I interact have modest goals and dreams.  Put in 30 or so years at their job and then retire.  Most are oblivious to the forces that are making those goals more and more difficult to achieve.  With a long-term vision of what is possible and some soul-stirring you can move forward in spite of the obstacles and criticism.  Last weekend, I was surrounded by people who don’t make small plans.  It is a big difference.  The audience was energized with big plans for financial independence, personal freedom and a mission to restore our country to the principles of the founders.  Souls were definitely stirred.

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Originally posted 2009-10-16 09:44:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Leaders are not enablers

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)
But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it’s been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
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Barack Obama (1961 – ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08

Times Change

Dwight Eisenhower ,34th President of the United States was one of the great generals that saved the world from tyranny in World War II.  He was raised as a simple Kansas farm boy, went to West Point and then when the war was over served two terms as President.  He was no intellectual but he understood America.  He lived and valued the principles that were the foundation of our government and the strength of the American people .

It is quite a contrast to see what Barack Obama , the 44th President values.  His mission is to remake the country.  It seems that privileges need to be shared by all.  Nothing said about principles, either his or the American people.  It’s a new world and I wonder how long we will have the privileges that have been so much a part of our counties success in the new country he is building.  What will the new vision he promises us mean to American tracitional values.  Stay tuned to see whether any of our traditional principles will survive.

Originally posted 2010-01-16 10:13:09. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Leaders are Team Players

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Life is a team sport

One of the problems with taking charge of your life is that by focusing on yourself you may inadvertently shut yourself off from a big and important segment of life-your team. Living a remarkable life is a team sport. It just isn’t possible to play alone. Quarterbacks are important to football teams but so is the lineman who keeps the quarterback from being sacked. When you set out to create an outrageous lifestyle, the focus is on you. It’s all about what you want; who you want to be and what you need to do to make that lifestyle happen. It has to be that way because you are the only thing you can control. It is necessary to push yourself and focus your efforts because you know better than anyone else just how much you need to improve. And only you can change you. Continue reading →

Will you lead?

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Launching the Leadership Revolution

Where are the leaders?

“We find ourselves in a time when leadership is sorely needed.  From the chaos, confusion and rampant mediocrity that we find in our schools, churches, workplaces, families, personal lives, national politics and international relations, the same questions seem to echo: “Will somebody please lead?” “Isn’t there anybody who can fix this?” “Is there anyone who can make sense of all this?” “Is there anyone who cares enough to take responsibility for improvement here?” “Where are the leaders?” “Do heroes even exist anymore?”"

Our government education system doesn’t want leaders

Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward asked those questions and studied leaders and those who study leaders and developed a leadership training manual called Launching the Leadership Revolution.  They lay out a system for developing the leader within and assure that leaders are not born as leaders.  They learn leadership and live as leaders.  You won’t get this training in schools because schools are designed to create followers, pale shadows of the real leaders we are meant to be.  Every man and woman today should be a leader;  first of themselves, second of their family and when needed for their community and country.

Leaders are demeaned today

If you need evidence of the devaluation of leadership in our education, you need only look at how the leaders that created the genius of the United States have been devalued and demeaned.  Our country was designed to be a country of leaders with a government to serve us.  It has become  a nation of sheep looking for the next meal and living at the mercy of benign oppression.

Are you a sheep or a citizen?

Sheep don’t need to learn leadership.  Citizens do.  Awaken your inner leader.  Don’t think that you don’t have what it takes because if you can think, you can learn.  And if you  want to learn leadership, I don’t know a better place to start than with Launching the Leadership Revolution.