A speaker reflects on leadership through parenting and daily habits, using a simple question: what would a great parent or partner do? He describes practicing with his 5 and 8-year-old kids and spouse Julie, learning from mistakes, and choosing better habits one small action at a time.
What does it take to lead and inspire? It takes attention and intention, attention to who you're being in every moment and the intentional development of effective habits. I find this with my family. I'm trying to focus on my family a lot. I have a five year old, an eight year old, trying to step up as just a leader of my household and just my faith and all that. And this rings really true for me in that regard as well. Just an attention, like I'm not going to get everything right, but just an awareness around every moment that, you know, what's the expression we talked about in our men's group before? It's to ask your question, like, what would a great blank do? What would a great team leader do? What would a great husband do? I ask myself that question all the time. What would a great husband do? Like as I'm trying to sit down and decompress for 30 minutes while Julie's getting the kids ready, I'm like, a great husband would go downstairs and do the effing dishes. So I get up. But I just think about this with parenting and you're going to make mistakes, right? But it's just getting back up and just being intentional about doing things better the next time. Effective leaders are remarkable for a specific set of qualities, qualities that everyone, including you, possess to one degree or another. Some leaders seem to be born the natural born leader, but most have to work on it. We talked about this morning.
