New riddle:
How does one's conscious development of self trust strengthen leadership skills?
Well for starters, I find it interesting (and sad) to note that everyone's always racking their brains as to how to awaken someone else to defensive ways in which they hurt themselves, when wisdom, passed down through the ages, suggests that the person we each need to shake awake is none other than oneself.
In today's cyber world, fear spreads around the globe so fast that it's hard to know who to trust, anymore.
When issues of trust grow too confusing for words, it seems wise to figure out how best to trust yourself to lead yourself toward reclaiming clarity by creating symmetry between emotion and logic, as noted in post 853.
Old riddle:
In answer to why self trust—surpassing all other strengths—serves up a trick question, I'd reply: Self trust cannot stand alone. Why not? Because leadership that does not stop to question its sense of clarity is eventually prone to implode. Why? To err is human. I mean how do you know when you trust yourself too little or too much? As you shall see, leadership that does not work to develop the inner strength of humility is bound to react too smart for its own good.
So in answer to this trick question, concerning one strength rising above all others, let's note that self trust does not simply rise, one day, to stand above the rest, alone. Instead, we must work consciously and patiently to develop a towering pyramid of personal strengths if self trust is to climb atop the shoulders of this solid foundation, based in high self esteem. Though it's likely that this last insight is not new to you, I wonder if you've questioned which of your personal strengths may still be half baked ...
In addition to mindfulness, resourcefulness, patience, tenacity, humility, flexibility, resilience and generosity of spirit, self trust depends upon strengths such as positive focus, farsightedness and good humor to set realistic long range goals into action in hopes of achieving future success. And as that string of inner strengths seems more than enough to light our way for today, let's not bite off more insight than we can chew, because otherwise, this post may grow as long in the tooth as those written over the past few days :)
More concerning effective leadership consciously building a pyramid of strengths necessary to bolster self trust, sometime later :)
PS
Wow! I sure do feel thankful for your continued support :)
In addition to the fact that November proved my blog's best month ever, in terms of page views, more people, around the world, showed up on December 1st than any day that came before!
PSS
In case you've been wondering why my posts have been concentrating on my fear when the endangered life had actually been Will's … I'd reply: Excellent question, which will be addressed in an orderly fashion when instinct suggests that the time to reveal Will's emotional reactions is ripe. In truth, there is method to my madness :)
PSSS
Geez—for some reason, my mind is drawn back to Post 853 as though that train of thought remains incomplete, sooo—once again, you may find the insertion of additional insights, which lit up my mind during the still of the night, to be as intriguing as I did. Honestly, I never know when the writing bug will bite. And BTW, I wish my mind would return to storytelling as much as you probably wish for that change, too :)
* (Once again, if you read post 853 on or after Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, please feel free to move straight ahead to post 856 :)
How does one's conscious development of self trust strengthen leadership skills?
Well for starters, I find it interesting (and sad) to note that everyone's always racking their brains as to how to awaken someone else to defensive ways in which they hurt themselves, when wisdom, passed down through the ages, suggests that the person we each need to shake awake is none other than oneself.
In today's cyber world, fear spreads around the globe so fast that it's hard to know who to trust, anymore.
When issues of trust grow too confusing for words, it seems wise to figure out how best to trust yourself to lead yourself toward reclaiming clarity by creating symmetry between emotion and logic, as noted in post 853.
Old riddle:
In answer to why self trust—surpassing all other strengths—serves up a trick question, I'd reply: Self trust cannot stand alone. Why not? Because leadership that does not stop to question its sense of clarity is eventually prone to implode. Why? To err is human. I mean how do you know when you trust yourself too little or too much? As you shall see, leadership that does not work to develop the inner strength of humility is bound to react too smart for its own good.
So in answer to this trick question, concerning one strength rising above all others, let's note that self trust does not simply rise, one day, to stand above the rest, alone. Instead, we must work consciously and patiently to develop a towering pyramid of personal strengths if self trust is to climb atop the shoulders of this solid foundation, based in high self esteem. Though it's likely that this last insight is not new to you, I wonder if you've questioned which of your personal strengths may still be half baked ...
In addition to mindfulness, resourcefulness, patience, tenacity, humility, flexibility, resilience and generosity of spirit, self trust depends upon strengths such as positive focus, farsightedness and good humor to set realistic long range goals into action in hopes of achieving future success. And as that string of inner strengths seems more than enough to light our way for today, let's not bite off more insight than we can chew, because otherwise, this post may grow as long in the tooth as those written over the past few days :)
More concerning effective leadership consciously building a pyramid of strengths necessary to bolster self trust, sometime later :)
PS
Wow! I sure do feel thankful for your continued support :)
In addition to the fact that November proved my blog's best month ever, in terms of page views, more people, around the world, showed up on December 1st than any day that came before!
PSS
In case you've been wondering why my posts have been concentrating on my fear when the endangered life had actually been Will's … I'd reply: Excellent question, which will be addressed in an orderly fashion when instinct suggests that the time to reveal Will's emotional reactions is ripe. In truth, there is method to my madness :)
PSSS
Geez—for some reason, my mind is drawn back to Post 853 as though that train of thought remains incomplete, sooo—once again, you may find the insertion of additional insights, which lit up my mind during the still of the night, to be as intriguing as I did. Honestly, I never know when the writing bug will bite. And BTW, I wish my mind would return to storytelling as much as you probably wish for that change, too :)
* (Once again, if you read post 853 on or after Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013, please feel free to move straight ahead to post 856 :)
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