Here’s a quick exercise for your Monday. Take a look at your meeting schedule for today and ask yourself if you would rather attend your team meeting, or bag it and go see the latest movie release as a matinee. Which would you choose?
The sad truth is that most would choose the matinee. Most team meetings are boring and resolve NOTHING. At least watching the matinee, the viewer sees what it looks like to really live. We see Hollywood tell the oldest story know to humankind, the story of the Hero’s Journey. This is “why” we go to the Rave Theatre. Oh yeah, the popcorn and sugar’s good. But seeing some inner conflict resolved is better than butter. Seeing some team come together and cross their “Delaware,” even better. Freakin’ magic.
Why don’t your team meetings resolve more conflict?
What can you do on Monday to be a catalyst for change?
Why are you afraid?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Remember, courage is NOT the absence of FEAR. Courage is simply choosing to act while facing your fear. Courage is simply seeing clearly what, whom, where, and why you LOVE and knowing that it’s worth more than sitting still. We are all afraid. That includes your boss, your peer, your best friend, your enemy, your teammate, and your competitors. That also includes you and it certainly includes me. Monday…
ACT anyway.
Action is the antidote. And, yes, you know this. Choices have consequences. Not acting is a choice and the consequences are worse than sitting through a bad movie. Try sitting through a series of bad team meetings. Try sitting through a…
Tell me more, my friend.
Tell me more…
BUILT TO LEAD 