Powerful
Like jumping into an arctic lake.
How refreshing!
His team woke up today to a message from their leader. He’d been up several hours, finished his work out, got in some early morning reading, wrote and sent out a message of truth and wisdom that was the first thing most of them saw when they checked their text.
The message had so much truth in it you couldn’t take it all in the first read through. It took two or three times to get it all. Not because it was long, but because it was distilled and concentrated. Knowledge, love, strength, vision, inspiration, motivation and acknowledgement all wrapped up neatly in a few paragraphs. Outstanding.
Here’s the surprise
The message was written by a leader who had experienced his first real set back. He’d had a tough week. Spent the weekend reflecting and reading. My Monday morning he was still aware of his internal conflict.
His team had dwindled. He had to let go of the dead. Admit that some he thought were up to the task really were not. One of the toughest lessons to learn is you can’t want it more for other people than they want it for themselves. Just because you believe in them doesn’t mean they’ll live up to your picture of how you see them.
It never fails
One of the other leaders in my team has a humorous, though slightly twisted, way of illustrating the point. He gets the audience to picture a beloved dog that has died. Then he does a little pantomime of taking the deceased pet for a walk. (Told you it was a bit over the edge) He acts out dragging the poor creature at the end of a leash, then throughs his hands in the air, looks straight at the audience and asks them how long are they going to keep dragging the dead dog around!
Everyone get it. Sometimes you just have to let go. If you don’t, your pushing a rope and worse, ignoring those who deserves your time and need your help.
By Tuesday morning everything changed.
Leaders either step up into excellence, or fall back into mediocrity. Everyone faces challenges, temporary defeat and hardship. The difference between the one who wins and the one who withers is how they overcome the obstacle. It takes little more than desire and persistence, yet it’s a primary cause of failure.
There’s another truth
Napoleon Hill said, “The Ladder of success is never crowded at the top”.
Many are called, few are chosen.
We have a commitment in the Wealth Creation Mastermind to build a team of a million leaders by January of 2020 for the purpose of generating a ripple of abundance that will flow around the world to inspire countless others to awaken to the Creative Method. To do that we each take responsibility to find, engage, mentor and coach four other members. Do the math and you will find that with this method, we have found our million by duplication to the tenth level.
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Upward!
It’s a tough lesson – sometimes people don’t do what you know they’re capable of, nor what you want them to do. As much as we may wish the best for them, sometimes you have to leave them behind. Don’t drag the dead dogs! Great message!
One of our challenges is to help our newest “leaders” have success early on. I’m not talking about a $10k/mth in their first month. Just helping them start and find their first leader. By doing this and duplicating that process with their new leader we create vested interest and the possibility of dragging the dead dog goes down. Then again even if they do become that “dead dog” if we’ve done our job we have another leader or two under them to work with. Great message indeed!