 Asking, “How can I make things happen?” might be the most important question. Things happen fast when there is an emergency or urgency. Emergency is a reactive response. Urgency is proactive action. Great leaders know how to create a sense of urgency that will capture the attention of others. They have an influential ability to communicate why things need to change rapidly. They know how to create an energy in others that pushes their mind and emotions into a higher level of performance. They create momentum in others to bring out their best. Let us use our best abilities to make things happen today.
 Why would we let others do our thinking for us? The fact is, it’s easier to ask someone else. That way, if it doesn’t work out, it’s their fault. Leaders think for themselves. They gather facts. They synthesize information. They ask questions. They use their best judgment with experience. They decide, believe it then act. Followers follow the leader. When we stop thinking for ourselves, we give up control and are easily manipulated. We sacrifice our ability to make decisions for our life. Let us place no higher authority than our ability to think for ourselves today.
Let us commit to progress, be consistent and take one step after another in the right direction today.
 We are in a position of power. We are empowered. There’s no reason to think about who is at fault for anything. There’s no reason to wonder why we aren’t happy. What gives us reason to think if we aren’t happy with the life we have right now on this very day, we can learn to be happy with the life we want or will have tomorrow?
We respond to any and every situation as we choose. Let us serve from a position of power and be happy with where we are going in the future and where we are today.  Don’t you love it when you get a burst of inspiration and tap into a GREAT idea? Good ideas come from good people all the time. Great ideas come from people that are smart, big thinkers, stress-free, inspired….. Changing the direction in a conversation or creating an ah-ha moment is worth its weight in gold.
We must free ourselves from the mundane thoughts that dominate our minds most of the time. We must share our ideas and invite others to collaborate with us. Let us use our ingenuity to be fresh, creative, original, inspired idea-generators today.  What separates us from living or just being alive? Living is going through the motions of life, without a burning desire to do something or be someone. It’s living without clarity and vision. Being alive is when we are so passionate about what we are doing and becoming, we enjoy every minute of it and everything about it. We lose all track of time. We appreciate every breath we take and every sunrise. It’s about being intellectually stimulated and spending time doing things we truly love. Let us enjoy the experience of being alive today.
 True leaders are experts at doing this: they have the expertise and capacity to stand up, speak up, share their experience, propose a new idea, lay out a plan to act and get everyone else to buy in to it. Everyone else doesn’t because their confidence holds them back, they don’t recognize their value, or they are concerned someone else in the room will undermine their influence. At the root of all purpose is that we are here to make the world a better place. Let us take a risk, take a stand and make things better today.
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