If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, to do more, to be more, you are a leader.
This from John Quincy Adams, our sixth president.
Since first and foremost we lead ourselves, we act to inspire ourselves.
Do we give ourselves permission to hear the dreams that are bubbling up in us? Or have we learned to assume we can't?
Do we listen and learn happily, with energy, like we did as children? Or have we parked ourselves in brain dead spaces?
Do we do more--giving, serving, energizing ourselves with God's principles of life, or sit in discontent, laziness, and inaction?
Then we can become more--not more of someone else, but more of ourselves, for becoming ourselves is the greatest leadership accomplishment of all.Because I worked in a pharmacy in high school, I entered pharmacy school at UNC-CH. What a disconnect! Why didn't I realize it is all science and I am all words?
I am forever thankful for the day, in my junior year, I looked beneath the desk of a classmate and saw a book titled, "Physical Education in the Elementary School." Just like that, I knew teaching was my calling.
I let it bubble up.
I learned to inquire like a six-year-old.
I energize myself by talking and listening relentlessly to anything God.
And someday, I'll become the best version of myself.
Will I lead others? That's up to God.
But I hope I will always, in the words of John Quincy Adams, inspire myself.
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