Recently a friend, after listening to my challenge to stand up to his leader, told me he doesn’t like it when I call him a victim. He prefers to think of himself as a mule in a pen. He’s dependent, he told me, upon his leader to feed him. He believes this. He wants me to tell him how to get out of this pen. He wants out of the pen but isn’t willing to opt out. He can’t see starting over at this late juncture in life. He wants to learn how to stand. Are you getting this?
Here’s what I told him. Do not miss this. This could be huge. I told my mule the way to stand in the pen is through the power of his pen.
The same will be true for you. The way out of whatever victimhood residence you’ve settled in, begins with the power in your pen. Study history and you will see great lives gained clarity, conviction, and confidence through their pen.
The way out of your pen is through your pen.
The more you write, write, and write some more, the more likely you are to become the CEO of Y.O.U. No pen will hold you down when you realize the power in your pen. Start with your worldview, your basic set of beliefs through which you make sense of the world. Write your deepest held beliefs and keep writing and rinsing until it’s you. Throw out your self limiting beliefs. You are not a mule. I believe you’re a mustang. You?
Live hard. Love harder…
BUILT TO LEAD 