As much as leaders many times do what they need to do, they never lose touch with what they want to do.  They know that the indispensable component of passion springs from what they want to do.  They know that energy to excel for what at times seems like a very long life springs from what they want to do.  They also have observed that both genders can succumb to that so called mid-life crisis that oftentimes finds it roots from carrying a large bag of shoulds on one’s shoulders for too long a length of time.

But what if you’ve lived under the shoulds of life for so long that the question “What do you want to do?” no longer produces any discernable inner response?

Try this.  When faced with two choices and you’re trying to determine which one you want to do, flip a coin.  Of course ahead of time decide which of the two coin sides will represent which of your choices.  When the coin lands, pay close attention to how you feel as you look at the side of the coin that landed facing upwards.  Those feelings you then have will oftentimes tell you what you want to do.  Did you say to yourself “Good.  I was hoping that’s how the coin would land.”  Or did you say, “Oh no.  Maybe I should go for two out of three.”

Of course you won’t live your life always doing what you want to do.  However, a leader never loses touch with what that is.  For many times that is exactly what s/he will do.

Categories: Assertiveness, Initiative, Intensity

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