Leadership Value of the Day

Leadership Value Of the Day: Patience, Perseverance, and Attitude

Many people like to believe that they possess these attributes. However once you learn what they really are you will realize we all need some work from time to time in these areas. Let's start with Patience. Many people believe that just because they are waiting and complaining about not being where they want to be or where they are striving to be they have patience. However patience is working towards your goals, even though you are denied with a positive attitude; I bet you are starting to see how this post will go. It is embracing the trials and tribulations as learning experiences, and not curses. It is something so simple to print but harder for us to practice, because we all want our success now. We all feel we deserve it now. However we don't know what the future holds for us, and that is why we are made to wait. The things we want for ourselves maybe actually selling ourselves short of what we will accomplish, so patience is needed to learn through and from each trial. Perseverance is simply application of what one has learned and the refusal to quit. Many times we think that we are not making any adjustments to our approach, but we are we are learning with each failed attempt. We learn to get up and try again. We learn how to keep going in the face of adversity. This is a skill that can not be learned from watching others. It is a skill that has to be learned through hands on methods, to truly be effective. Perseverance is a muscle that has to be exercised with every new task and even some old ones. Finally Attitude. A positive attitude is what makes the other values of the day easy. Without a positive attitude the other values become daunting tasks. I am not suggesting that everyday is or will be rainbows and sunshine. However I am saying that even at our lowest points we should maintain the ability to smile to laugh and to understand that we generate our own air. If you are positive you will attract positive people, if you dwell on the negative you will invite more negativity into your space. Then you will have to exercise the other values of the day in a negative cloud generating even more trials for yourself on the road to greatness.