A speaker on a YouTube coaching tip video recommends Robin Sharma's Leader Without a Title, reads two key lists from the book ("10 you may regret" and "10 human victories"), and offers personal reflections—becoming emotional, relating the lists to his men's group and stages of life. The piece is motivational and reflective, urging readers/listeners to live boldly and serve others.
Read the book Leader without a Title. It's a really, really good book. I think I do well with books that, you know, they teach you something like. They trick you into teaching something like leadership fables. It's worth reading. It is Sharma. Robin Sharma. I'm not going to go into what the book's about because I think you all should read it. But it's basically, it's a guy, sort of another guy's mentoring this guy. And they kind of go around and they learn lessons from people in different positions. Like, I think there's a janitor. I think there's a. I forget what it is. I have no memory. But it's a good book. So let me read the 10 you may regret. So you reach your last day with a brilliant song that your life was meant to sing. Still silent within you. You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things. You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example you set. See, I get emotional just reading these. You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks or you never received any bold rewards. You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunity to catch a glimpse of of mastery because you bought into the lie that you had to be resigned to mediocrity. You reach your last day and feel heartbroken that you never learned the skill of transforming adversity into victory and lead into gold. You reach your last day regretting that you forgot that work is about being radically helpful to others rather than being helpful only to yourself. You reach your last day with the awareness that you end up living life, living the life that society trained you to want versus leading the life that you truly wanted to have. You reach your last day and awaken to the fact that you never realized your absolute best nor touch the special genius that you were built to become. You reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it. But you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared. And so you failed and wasted a life. Right? Pretty powerful. So the 10 human victories. So you reach your end full of happiness and fulfillment on realizing that you are all used up, having spent the fullness of your talents, the biggest of your resources, and the best of your potential, doing great work and leading a rare air life. You reach your end knowing that you played at a standard of concentrated excellence and held yourself to the most impeccable standards in each thing that you did. You reach your end in noisy celebration for having the boldness of sport spirit to have regularly confronted your largest fears and realized your highest visions. You reach your end and recognize you became the person who built people up versus one who tore people down. You reach your end with the understanding that while your journey may not have always been a smooth one, whenever you got knocked down, you instantly got back up and at all times never suffered from any loss of optimism. You reach your end and bask in the staggering glory of the phenomenal achievements along the rich value that you contributed to the lives of people that you were lucky to serve. You reach your end and adore the strong, ethical, inspirational, empathetic person you grew into. You reach your end and realize that you are a genuine innovator who blazed new trails instead of following old roads. You reach your end surrounded with teammates. I think of my dad when I read this one, so. You reach your end surrounded with teammates who call you a rock star, friends who say you're a hero, and loved ones who call you a legend. You reach your end as. Sorry, someone told me when you cry to look up, and my team sees me doing that more often lately. You reach your end as a true leader without a title, knowing that the great deeds you did will endure long after your death. Life stands as a model of possibility worth printing out and reading once a day, in my opinion. Like, each one of those just strikes a chord in me. Like the one, like, all used up, like, at the end. I mean, I think I'm in a men's group that we're going through 33 of the series based on Jesus life. So we're going through the seasons of life. And so in our group, there's married guys without kids, there's married guys with young children, there's a married guy with older children, and then there's empty nesters. There's about eight of us, and there's like two in each category. And it's like that last phase, right, you know, where we kind of view. Even with my parents, I kind of view them as, you know, I got this, like, I know what I'm doing. And just to be. To think of how your life could be even in those later years, you know, and at the end, you're like, you're just all used up. You gave everything you had to everyone all the time. Pretty cool.
