It's a new week. When you think about growing your business, your job, or your career, today where will your thinking begin? Is it with the good or the less-than-good? 

Starting with "I/We cannot...." is the prelude to saying things like "Yes, but...." which reinforces our inability to do what we desire. Getting anywhere after that entails first scaling the wall of our imagined impossibility. That's the feeling of  "it's all uphill."

The hallmark of someone bringing more of his or spirituality into leading is that he or she starts from the good, not its absence. It opens the pathway to greater possibility without self-imposed barriers. Plus it helps us be fully present for people around us. Yes, there may be difficult situations to overcome, aren't there always? But our angle of attack is always affirmative:

"We are strong."

"Therefore we can."

"Therefore we will."

Say these three phrases (okay to can substitute I for we) as you start you week, your days, and your meetings. Much more downhill than uphill will follow.

Stephen
ANE = Calm, Confident, Connected Leadership

The Fully-Present Leader is our 2012 event theme. In North America at Princeton Theological Seminary on May 6 and 7, and in Europe at Worth Abbey, UK from September 21 to 23.