Practice This

Is “leadership” applicable only in sports or corporate world? How do you become a leader for your kids? How do you lead them to become a better person, a better citizen, a better worker, a better leader?
Same rules apply.

by Swaity
I’ve been looking at John Wooden’s 12 lessons in leadership. It made a lot of sense for me to apply it in my personal life with my kids:

Good Values Attract Good People. What values do you teach your kid? 
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This is test drive #3 announced in Practicing Colin Powell’s Rules.
What was in my practicing pipeline are:

Collin’s “The day employees stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”
Leo’s “Give a full-body massage“.

Recently my good friend just used the same phrase with regards to employees and their problems, he said ”they just won’t bring you their problems anymore, so you sink slowly”.
I am …

I came across Motivation or Action First? and it motivated me to share my simple practice.
My day starts at 6:00 and ends by 1:00 late at night. Walking the dog, taking kids to school, work, house keeping, self development, blogging, love. I am not workaholic – I just try to collect as much experiences as I can during the day, preferably productive ones – here is my simple recipe for this – Plan, Execute, And Celebrate. Obviously with such workload, I need mental support. Shrink is not an option – …