The more I understand about myself, the more I understand about you - your problems, your concerns, your issues.
The more I change my world for the positive, the more I change *the* world for the positive.
And the more I seek to change myself first, rather than fix 'faults' I see in others, the more I help others change themselves.
For the truth is this: if your behaviour makes me angry, it is because your behaviour is a reflection of my own behaviour - a behaviour that I have not made peace with (or even acknowledged)...
Hmm, yes another month and another series of personal insights that light the path for me, and just wait for me to follow it.
Right now, I am acutely aware of minor disturbances in my emotional life; I know I want these disturbances to disappear ("DISAPPEAR, I tell you!") then ALL will be well. When the truth is the opposite: be okay with what life brings. Or, as I read in a Guy Finley book a few years ago: "Want what life wants."
So this is me, now, doing my best to be okay. And in doing so, I hope I am showing the way for others to do likewise in their own lives. For, as I say in the video that follows, the best way to help people change is to BE that change for them, is to lead the way...
This issue's contribution is from Heather - a relationship Q&A that focusses on her doubts and fears in her relationship (with a GREAT man). I wonder what you would do in Heather's situation - she cannot let go of his past, particularly his marriage of 24 years to another woman...
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
More Leadership Quotes...
"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." -- Ray Kroc
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." -- John C. Maxwell
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -- John Quincy Adams
"The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him." -- Albert Schweitzer
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." -- Mother Teresa
What I Say about Albert Schweizer's Inspirational Leading Quote...
Listen to my thoughts about this leadership quote in the video below...