Last month I wrote that leadership only started making sense to me when it became personal. I wrote about Oliver Tambo and the significant role that he played in South Africa. Leadership starts with taking responsibility of your own life.
I work with many people in my coaching practice who blame their unfulfilled lives on those around them, when they themselves hold the key, and that key is taking ownership of their own lives through personal leadership. If you do not lead yourself others will. The problem with others leading you is that you will end up where they want you to be and not where you want to be!
John Ortberg once wrote about a medical condition called: FTT
“Those initials would go on the chart of an infant who, often for unknown reasons, was unable to gain weight or grow.
Failure to thrive.
Sometimes, they guess, it happens when a parent or care-giver is depressed, and the depression seems to get passed down. Sometimes something seems to be off in an infant’s metabolism for reasons no one can understand, so FTT is one of those mysterious phrases that sounds like an explanation but explains nothing.”
How sad that these babies die within 7-10 days! There is no will to live. But do you know what is even sadder? What’s even sadder are healthy people suffering from FTT.
In my coaching practice I find people who physically overcame FTT but emotionally, spiritually, intellectually they suffer from FTT. These people just survive, waiting for the end, no purpose and no personal leadership! They expect life to work out, but they do not take the ownership. Why is your life not working out? Are you leading yourself?
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