As we pursue our purposes, we have a tendency to mind only the future and not the present. Our minds are always set on the next thing to do and we miss out on the little things that count around us. Every bit of our journey to achieving our goals is as important as the goal itself. We are constantly busy and always moving. This is good but we must stop to smell the flowers …
I was at a leadership conference recently and one of the speakers said something that resonated with me. He said that “…a leader must be loyal to his subordinates. It is difficult to be loyal to a disloyal leader” We commonly expect loyalty to flow upward and not downward, but the reality is that loyalty must be reciprocal. When we are in authority, our expectation is that we must be respected and our followers must …
Our hearts are the drivers of all that we do in life. If a person has a lion’s or a weak heart, it is easy to tell; on the other hand, if one has a loving or wicked heart, it is easy to tell too. Whatever we do or do not do in this life, is a direct reflection of what is on-going in our hearts. “I love you” is very easy to say, but …
I was sharing a meal with my husband one day and he said to me, “Honey, you have changed.” Not knowing from what angle he was coming from, I cautiously asked, “In what way, honey?” And he said to me, “You are calmer now, gentler and you wave off issues as nothing even when they are aggravating. You are not as impatient with people as you used to be when we first met.” Hmmm, I …
