Carrie the day…

Our modern world faces a crisis of leadership. We have an abundance of leaders looking good. Their high flying sails and big boats out cruising in the harbor for all to see. Too many have spent too much time focused on what others can see. Few, however, are good. The majority have little ballast in their keel. Watch what happens when the next 2008 kinda correction blows up against their boat, you’ll see. It is easy to look good when the seas are calm and you spend most of your time doing parade laps in the safety and security of the harbor. What, my friend, are you focused on? Looking good and rising in your system? Making sure you’ve got the brightest and biggest boat in the harbor. Or, are you putting weight in your keel where no one sees, but you know?

Be good. Do good. Focus here.

Poise and even keeled are a couple nautical terms you oughta know if you’re attempting to lead anything. Poise under pressure comes from a strong CORE. The higher your sail, the proportionally deeper your need for more ballast below. Build here, leader. You see, being even keeled during life’s inevitable storms isn’t reserved for certain personality types, folks with specific strengthsfinder attributes, or peeps with proper educations. Even keeled leaders are built with ballast. Ballast below the waterline. Ballast that nobody sees until the crucible reveals. Build here while there is time. 

Our new business cycle is gonna be like a perpetual Spring season. NIL and the transfer portal are not going away either. Tons of opportunity for “growing through it.” And, plenty of pop up showers, storms, and more storms. Your ship’s gonna sail some choppy water. Leader, do the work down below. Build your CORE. Poise isn’t something you turn on, it’s who you are. 

Want a recent example? Watch Carrie Underwood’s performance at yesterday’s Inaguration. Technology let her down. She remained calm. As the seconds of silence kept coming, she looked at the dude in charge and mouthed two words – “A cappella.” Without missing a beat she asked the audience to sing along as she, in fact, brought the house down with her steady nerve and beautiful voice. The crucible reveals. Will you Carrie the day? Poise. Damn.

Live hard. Love ❤️ harder…