BTL Leaders do not focus on feelings, first. Leaders focus first on self discipline; namely, their own. They understand their biggest threats are always from other selves that lack the ability or the will to self regulate. Fact. Dealing with this real problem is painful. Few, face it head on. Real leaders understand you can’t focus on getting the right people in the right seat on the bus until you’ve shot the wrong people out the emergency exit, first. Harsh. Hard. Reality. Leaders develop when they model the way, embrace pain and suffering, and slowly begin to embody truth in LOVE. BTL Leaders development is defined by acute pain. And, by the leaders ability to increase their threshold for such pain. Fact.
You will know you are a leader when the storm that used to send you into a tizzy, now is met with a rye smile as you settle in for another kairos moment you kinda feel like you were made for. Calmly, you STAND. The storm passes and you and your team move on. Leaders are built to lead, mostly, through their toughest tests. Sadly, many of the toughest tests are around dealing with those that won’t regulate themselves.
Our aim, at BTL is to provide practice for these tests prior to their arrival. Our practices are painful on purpose. Only the few STAND because only the few taste the other side of acute pain enough times to increase their threshold. Most settle for the chronic pain of tolerating the mediocre middle. Good to Great, not so much. How ’bout you. What are you building? Is your pain threshold increasing or decreasing? It, just like you, never stays the same.
You, if you’re a leader, have some people around you who won’t regulate themselves. Your team is defined by how you deal with those who lack the will to self regulate. They won’t change.
Will you?
BUILT TO LEAD 