Recently I was in a hot meeting. High stakes, strong emotions, people seeing differently. The good news is that they were people of integrity. Finally at one moment, I turned to a leader who was outspoken, strong and intense – all good qualities! My challenge was for him to lead. Lead the moment! Lead the way home so that those in the meeting could follow. Use the fire in your belly to cut a path for the future.
The leadership he would need to do would be to lead with confession; lead by describing how he had hurt others. Leaders lead! When a leader has fire in the belly, they can leverage that passion and fuel to open the path for others. It takes courage to lead like that! It takes a leader who is whole in his or her own spirit. It takes a person of passion, whose passion leverages future for everyone.
Use your emotion to lead by leading in owning what you can own. Use that fire in your belly to forge a path for others. Lead with courage and watch how others can then follow!
That fire in your belly is a gift, a gift we can all follow when you move out of courage and passion for others.
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