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Lead Well in the Whirlwind | Episode #452 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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Speaker 1: Your Life Count. I want to give a great big
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Speaker 1: thank you and shout out to all of you listening
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Speaker 1: today all around the world. I'm delighted and so grateful
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Speaker 1: that you joined me. Now, I want to let you
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Speaker 1: know that I have made a few changes to my podcast.
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Speaker 1: The first change is that I want you to know
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Speaker 1: a little bit more about me and why you can
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Speaker 1: now find my podcasts under the heading of management on
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Speaker 1: some of our listening platforms. That's right. Now. I know
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Speaker 1: this won't be news to my regular listeners, but if
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Speaker 1: you're just finding me and tuning in for the very
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Speaker 1: first time, I want to let you know that I
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Speaker 1: am a leader and an entrepreneur and an artist. Now
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Speaker 1: I have founded or co founded not one, not two,
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Speaker 1: but three successful businesses Woo. In fact, I've been an
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Speaker 1: entrepreneur for over twenty five years. Before that, I worked
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Speaker 1: in corporate America. I also worked in higher education as
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Speaker 1: an administrator and as a professor. In fact, I still
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Speaker 1: do a little professing every now and then. I'm also
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Speaker 1: a founding partner with the John Maxwell team, and I'm
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Speaker 1: one of their faculty as well. So if you need
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Speaker 1: a dynamic speaker to open or close a conference or
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Speaker 1: and experienced coach, or perhaps you need a trusted advisor,
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Speaker 1: a thought partner to walk alongside you, to help you
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Speaker 1: with your strategic work, or to develop the leaders in
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Speaker 1: your organization, then drop me a note and let's talk
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Speaker 1: about how I can serve you and add value to
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Speaker 1: you and your team. You can connect with me via
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Speaker 1: email and that email address is infoinfo at Gloriaburgess dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's right, info at Gloria Burgess dot com. Or you
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Speaker 1: can connect with me via LinkedIn or on Facebook. Now,
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Speaker 1: on LinkedIn, you just look me up. I'm doctor Gloria
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Speaker 1: Jay Burgess. And later on in this podcast, I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you how to easily find me on Facebook. All right, again,
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Speaker 1: I'm delighted and so grateful that you joined me today.
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Speaker 1: I sure hope you're enjoying a fabulous day and that
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Speaker 1: you're having a fantastic week, because you know what, in
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Speaker 1: the Grand Song of the universe. Life is very short.
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Speaker 1: It's short and sweet and very very precious. So I
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Speaker 1: hope you're making a difference in your own life, because
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Speaker 1: you know what, when you do, you also make a
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Speaker 1: difference in someone else's life. Now, a lot of folks
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Speaker 1: really want to make their life count for something, but
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Speaker 1: they don't know how, or it just seems so big
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Speaker 1: and overwhelming. They just don't know how or where to begin.
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Speaker 1: So they ask me, doctor Gloria, how do you do that?
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Speaker 1: How do you make your life count? Well, let me
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Speaker 1: tell you it is very simple, very very simple. You
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Speaker 1: make your life count day by day, step by step,
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Speaker 1: smile by smile, every single day three sixty five, twenty
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Speaker 1: four seven. You make your life count by being there
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Speaker 1: for someone who needs you, by being an encourager, an inspirer,
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Speaker 1: and uplifter. By reaching out to someone on your team
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Speaker 1: or someone in your organization, in your community, or when
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Speaker 1: you're at home, you can reach out to a neighbor,
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Speaker 1: or even closer to home, you can call your mom
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Speaker 1: or your dad right or your sister or brother and
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Speaker 1: simply tell them you know what, I am calling you today,
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Speaker 1: not because I want to have a lengthy conversation necessarily,
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Speaker 1: but I am calling simply to say I love you.
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Speaker 1: Or you can turn off your digital media, your social
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Speaker 1: media for a while and use that time to write
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Speaker 1: someone a thoughtful card or note. I know, I just
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Speaker 1: love getting handwritten notes. There's such a wonderful sight in
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Speaker 1: your mailbox. Right in the middle of that stack of
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Speaker 1: bills or right in the middle of those folds a
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Speaker 1: junk mail. Wow, you have this handwritten note card. You
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Speaker 1: can send somebody a beautiful image or a photo, or
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Speaker 1: a link to a beautiful song. And if you're like me,
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Speaker 1: you can go out into your deck or yard and
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Speaker 1: pick a handful of herbs or flowers. Right and you
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Speaker 1: know what, you write that note or card. You pick
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Speaker 1: that bunch of herbs or flowers, not because it's a
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Speaker 1: special occasion like a birthday or anniversary. You simply hold
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Speaker 1: someone's hand, or share your smile, or or write that
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Speaker 1: thank you. No, okay, you can give someone a bunch
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Speaker 1: of flowers just because that's right, Just because Now, those
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Speaker 1: just because moments are the ones that I love the most.
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Speaker 1: Can I just tell you something, Those simple loving acts
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Speaker 1: of kindness and caring and compassion and generosity make a
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Speaker 1: huge difference. In my life. You can make a difference too.
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Speaker 1: You can make a difference simply by being grateful, grateful
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Speaker 1: for who you are, grateful for whose you are, and
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Speaker 1: by being grateful that when you know whose you are,
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Speaker 1: you can lead. That's right. You can lead with steadiness,
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Speaker 1: with courage, with confidence. You can lead with mastery through
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Speaker 1: any situation. Now, let me just stop right there for
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Speaker 1: a moment. Okay, some of you I know may not
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Speaker 1: even think of yourself as a leader. But can I
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Speaker 1: just tell you something. Maybe you are a teacher, or
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Speaker 1: a nurse or a doctor. Maybe you're like me, you're
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Speaker 1: an entrepreneur and an artist, or you're a student in
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Speaker 1: college or high school and you have no idea of
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Speaker 1: what you want to be, or who you want to be,
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Speaker 1: or what you want to do after you graduate. Well,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you do in your professional life,
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Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter what life stage you're in. You
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Speaker 1: are a leader. How can I say that with such
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Speaker 1: boldness and assurance and confidence. Here's how. If you are
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Speaker 1: alive and participating in this great adventure we call life.
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Speaker 1: If you have a pulse, if you have breath in
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Speaker 1: your body, then you are a leader. Now, maybe you're
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Speaker 1: the only person you're leading at the moment, but somebody
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Speaker 1: to be in charge of you, right, and that's you.
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Speaker 1: You are in charge of yourself, right, So you can
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Speaker 1: make a difference in your own life, and you can
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Speaker 1: also make a difference in someone else's life. When you
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Speaker 1: know how to lead yourself, you could actually transfer that knowledge.
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Speaker 1: You can transfer those skills so that you can lead
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Speaker 1: in any circumstance. Now, today we're going to talk about
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Speaker 1: how to do just that. Specifically, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about leading with perseverance, because if you can do that,
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Speaker 1: if you can lead with perseverance, then you will be
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Speaker 1: equipped to lead yourself and others in any other situation
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Speaker 1: that comes up in your life. Now, remember you've heard
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Speaker 1: me say this many many times. How you live is
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Speaker 1: how you lead, right, So what you're going to hear
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Speaker 1: about today you can also apply it in your daily
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Speaker 1: life as well. What I'm going to share with you
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Speaker 1: today is a wonderful example of what legacy living make
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Speaker 1: your Life Count is all about. Now, before I delve
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Speaker 1: into today's podcast, let me remind you you can learn
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Speaker 1: more about legacy living Make your Life Count by visiting
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Speaker 1: the Gloria Burgess website. That's g l O r Ia
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Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess b as in boy, you are Gess dot
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Speaker 1: com the Gloria Burgess website. And as I've mentioned before,
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Speaker 1: if you love to be inspired, you can actually subscribe
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Speaker 1: Or by visiting Facebook and that's Facebook dot com forward slash,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Gloria Burgess, PhD. Forward slash okay, and doctor is
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Speaker 1: abbreviated there, so it's Dr. My name, Dr Gloria Burgess, PhD.
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Speaker 1: Forward slash. Now, more about leading with perseverance Now, I
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Speaker 1: just want to say that we are in the process
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Speaker 1: of creating a new narrative, a new story, okay, and
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Speaker 1: that narrative is about leading with perseverance. More than that,
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Speaker 1: it's about leading with creativity, leading with creative perseverance. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm so excited and delighted to share this with you
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Speaker 1: today because it's kind of a mashup of several topics
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Speaker 1: that are near and dear to my heart, leading, creativity,
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Speaker 1: and perseverance. Now, these topics are near and dear, and
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Speaker 1: they are also key chapters for me in my own
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Speaker 1: journey as a leader, as an artist, as a parent,
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Speaker 1: as a daughter, as a wife, as an entrepreneur, as
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Speaker 1: a community servant. This new story, this new narrative that
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Speaker 1: we're creating, is pressing because finally, finally, more of us
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Speaker 1: know that to lead well in the twenty first century,
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Speaker 1: you need to be equipped, consciously equipped as co creators
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Speaker 1: of whatever is coming next. So this new story, this
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Speaker 1: new narrative, puts leadership, creativity, art and artistry back where
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Speaker 1: they belong, not on the margins right, but at the center,
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Speaker 1: at the very core of our spiritual, social, cultural, political,
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Speaker 1: and economic lives. In fact, this story joins creativity, art
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Speaker 1: and artistry with leadership, because that's precisely what it will
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Speaker 1: take to lead well, to lead with empathy, to lead
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Speaker 1: with humility, with hospitality, with courage, and sustainability and imagination
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Speaker 1: in the twenty first century and beyond. Now, many years ago,
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Speaker 1: one of my mentors shared with me, She said, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the Appalachian Hill Country in the United States, there's
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Speaker 1: a lovely way that some people, especially some of the
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Speaker 1: older people, there's a lovely way they still convey and
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Speaker 1: welcome you when they greet you at their door. Rather
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Speaker 1: than say hello, how are you, Maya or Sammy, rather
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Speaker 1: than saying welcome Michael or Lauren, They'll greet you by saying,
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Speaker 1: what's working you? That's right, what's working you? So today
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Speaker 1: I want to share with you that in my journey
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Speaker 1: as a leader, entrepreneur, and artist, I have been working
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Speaker 1: at the intersection of leadership, creativity, artistry, and spirituality for
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Speaker 1: thirty plus years. So this really feels like home to me, right,
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Speaker 1: and I want to share with you as a way
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Speaker 1: to consider leadership and artistry as a way of being,
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Speaker 1: thinking and moving through the world, a way that has
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Speaker 1: helped me as a creative, as an artist, and as
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Speaker 1: a leader. It's something I've written about in all of
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Speaker 1: my books and something I continue to write about now.
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Speaker 1: One of those books is called Dare to Wear Your
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Speaker 1: Soul on the Outside, Live Your Legacy. Now. In this book,
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Speaker 1: I write about what's working me right. I write about
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Speaker 1: the art of persevering, and I specifically write about the
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Speaker 1: art of persevering with whatever it is that's working you. Now,
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Speaker 1: what's been working me for the past twenty five years
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Speaker 1: or so is not only perseverance, but it's been working
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Speaker 1: me in my life as a leader, consultant, coach, professor, entrepreneur,
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Speaker 1: as well as in my more artistic life, my writing life,
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Speaker 1: my singing life, my making music life, my parenting life.
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Speaker 1: What's been working me it's this invisible matrix, this invisible
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Speaker 1: armature that rules our lives as human beings now I
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Speaker 1: mean rules our lives. I'm going to share a bit
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Speaker 1: about this resource with you, this armature, because when you
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Speaker 1: understand how powerful it is, you can actually harness that
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Speaker 1: power and use it to make your life and work
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Speaker 1: better and help others do exactly the same. So before
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Speaker 1: I delve into that armature, I want to make one
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Speaker 1: thing perfectly clear. We are all We are all creative.
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Speaker 1: If you have breath in your body, if you still
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Speaker 1: have a pulse, right, if you're participating in life, you're
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Speaker 1: a leader and you're also creative. Now, let's talk about
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Speaker 1: making that invisible framework, that invis armature visible. That's what
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Speaker 1: I want to focus on with you today. I want
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Speaker 1: to shine the light right there so you can easily
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Speaker 1: recognize and more readily amplify the power of this incredible
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Speaker 1: framework in your own life and in your own leadership.
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Speaker 1: Now there are seven pieces. There's seven dimensions, seven aspects
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Speaker 1: to this armature. I'm going to have time to really
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Speaker 1: talk with you about one of them today, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to name them all. So this would be a
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Speaker 1: good time if you want to take notes, to grab
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Speaker 1: a piece of paper, grab your iPad, grab your phone, okay,
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Speaker 1: and take some notes. So some of these dimensions will
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Speaker 1: sound familiar to you, especially if you're a writer, a painter,
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Speaker 1: a professor, a doctor, a gardener, a dancer, a student,
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Speaker 1: a college administrator, a plumber, a firefighter, police officer, a
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Speaker 1: community servant. Now that covers a lot of ground, doesn't it, right,
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Speaker 1: So again I just want to underscore whoever you are
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Speaker 1: and whatever you do, you're going to recognize the pieces
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Speaker 1: of this armature. You will recognize them as creative principles
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Speaker 1: or creative tenants, and some of you will recognize them
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Speaker 1: within the framework of creativity. But maybe you know some
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Speaker 1: of you learned about what I'm going to talk about elsewhere,
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Speaker 1: so you may put what I'm talking about in an
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Speaker 1: entirely different context. And that's okay. Here's what I've learned
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Speaker 1: and chronicled in my own life. In fact, this is
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Speaker 1: what my research is about in my professing life. Right,
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Speaker 1: I call the seven dimensions or the seven aspect. I
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Speaker 1: call them seven promises. Why because they're actually I'm going
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Speaker 1: to say, covenants that we make to ourselves, to one another,
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Speaker 1: and to God. So when I talk about the armature,
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Speaker 1: I'm referring to these seven principles, these seven promises, and
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Speaker 1: I want you to be more aware of them so
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Speaker 1: that you can harness their power. So here they are.
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Speaker 1: The seven promises are gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity, creative action,
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Speaker 1: and legacy. I'm going to say those again, Gratitude, faith, love, vision, integrity,
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Speaker 1: creative action, and legacy. Now today we'll have time to
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Speaker 1: focus on one of these promises. So I want to
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Speaker 1: shine the light on vision. And before I talk about vision,
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Speaker 1: I want you to know that all of the promises
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Speaker 1: work together. Just as we have a band or an
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Speaker 1: orchestra with lots of different musicians, lots of different instruments, right,
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Speaker 1: they all work together to form an ensemble. They all
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Speaker 1: work together, and the promises are exactly the same way.
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Speaker 1: They are resources that work together to support us in
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Speaker 1: our leadership, to support our creativity, and to support us
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Speaker 1: as we keep on keeping on, as we persevere. Right,
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Speaker 1: they are ever present resources we can tap into, we
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Speaker 1: can draw on them in our day to day living
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Speaker 1: and in our day to day, moment to moment lives
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Speaker 1: as leaders. This is the invisible matrix okay, that I
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Speaker 1: talked about earlier. So how do we make them visible?
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Speaker 1: Let's make vision visible. So what do we mean by vision? Well,
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Speaker 1: vision is the big idea of what you want to
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Speaker 1: do with your team, your organization, your community, or maybe
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Speaker 1: even yourself. Right, So it's the big idea, not the
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Speaker 1: little baby ideas, but the grand idea. And vision is
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Speaker 1: not only about what you want to accomplish, it's also
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Speaker 1: about how do you want to go about it? So
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Speaker 1: it's a process as well, all right, So we talk
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Speaker 1: about vision is what and how, but it's more than
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Speaker 1: that as well. Okay, Vision also includes who. So when
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Speaker 1: you're casting or sharing a vision, good questions to ask
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Speaker 1: are who will go with me? Who will go with
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Speaker 1: me on this journey? Right? And who will I encounter
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Speaker 1: along the way? Who will I partner with? Who? Will
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Speaker 1: I collaborate with out there. There's a lovely African wisdom
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Speaker 1: saying that goes, if you want to go fast, go alone.
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Speaker 1: If you want to go far, go together. I love that. Right.
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Speaker 1: If you want to go fast, go all by yourself,
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Speaker 1: go alone. But if you want to go far, go together.
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Speaker 1: And I'm saying that anything worth doing is worth doing together. Now,
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Speaker 1: here's the really cool thing about vision. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to see the whole shebang. You don't have to see
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Speaker 1: the whole vision all at once. Right, here's what I know.
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Speaker 1: Your vision will evolve as you move into it, as
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Speaker 1: you move towards it, so naturally it will morph and
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Speaker 1: shape shift along the way. So be open to what
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Speaker 1: is revealed to you along that journey. Don't get stuck
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Speaker 1: on the vision that you happen to begin with, right
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Speaker 1: why Because that vision, the one you begin with, the
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Speaker 1: one you start with, may no longer be relevant tomorrow
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Speaker 1: or next week, or next month or next year. And
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Speaker 1: this is true whether we're leading in a time of
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Speaker 1: difficulty or not. So remember you can have your vision,
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Speaker 1: but always keep your knees bent as you breathe and
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Speaker 1: live into it. And another thing to remember is this
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Speaker 1: don't get attached to the particular way your vision will manifest, okay,
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Speaker 1: be open to outcome. In other words, keep your knees bent. Now,
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Speaker 1: one of the many lessons I've learned from being an
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Speaker 1: educator is that you have to be a guide on
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Speaker 1: the side, not a stage on the stage. Right, a
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Speaker 1: guide on the side, not a stage on the stage.
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Speaker 1: You have to see your students, okay, whether they're grade school,
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Speaker 1: middle school, high school, okay, doesn't matter. I work with adults, right,
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Speaker 1: And you have to see these students as highly capable
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Speaker 1: human beings, highly capable learners, capable individuals who can share
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Speaker 1: their knowledge and experience and other resources with you and others.
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Speaker 1: You also have to see your students as highly capable
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Speaker 1: ambassadors who can take their learning and take their expertise
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Speaker 1: and apply it in the real world, in real time,
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Speaker 1: in their teams, in their organizations, and in their communities.
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Speaker 1: I often apply these lessons when I work with my
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Speaker 1: clients as well. Right. So, even though many of them
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Speaker 1: say they want me to work with them because I'm
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Speaker 1: an expert in this or that, what they really want
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Speaker 1: and what they really value is what I help them
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Speaker 1: discover their own solutions. When I help them unpack their
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Speaker 1: own knowledge, and when I help them tap into their
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Speaker 1: own resourcefulness, it all boils down to helping them find
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Speaker 1: their own path to their own vision of it's possible.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit more about vision. Vision
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Speaker 1: has all kinds of dimensions to it that we need
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Speaker 1: to pay attention to now. From a cultural perspective, we
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Speaker 1: tend to talk about vision as if we can literally
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Speaker 1: see something right, see something with our anatomical eyes. But
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Speaker 1: in reality, what you usually see is a fog, right,
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Speaker 1: And if you don't, you should be seeing fog, because
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Speaker 1: if what you see is really clear to you, it's
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Speaker 1: not a vision, it's not a dream. Hey, it's a goal. Right.
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Speaker 1: Vision has many different aspects, many dimensions, and some of
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Speaker 1: the aspects I just want to say a little bit
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Speaker 1: about right now. So vision consists of perception, okay, how
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Speaker 1: we take things. Then, vision consists of insight and foresight
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Speaker 1: and hindsight and reflection and revelation and so much more.
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Speaker 1: Including now, listen to this respect. Respect. Respect that means
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Speaker 1: actually to look again, to re see right, to see
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Speaker 1: with new eyes, and to see with a fresh perspective.
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Speaker 1: So I invite you to think about the various aspects
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Speaker 1: of vision, and to think about not only what's working
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Speaker 1: you with regard to vision, but also pay attention to
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Speaker 1: what's working the people around you, nearby or far away,
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Speaker 1: because the world really is at our fingertips these days, right,
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Speaker 1: the world is just a click away. So pay attention
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Speaker 1: to what's showing up for other people, because those people
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Speaker 1: are your potential collaborators, they're your potential amplifiers. They're people
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Speaker 1: who potentially can be of service to you or maybe
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Speaker 1: just maybe these are the people you can be of
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Speaker 1: service to as well. Right, who knows, But pay attention
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Speaker 1: and know that if you have this creative fire that's working.
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Speaker 1: You know that when we are made, okay, we're made
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Speaker 1: not to walk alone, but we're made to walk together.
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Speaker 1: We're social beings, we're made to be in relationships. So
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Speaker 1: pay attention to people who you can just link elbows
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Speaker 1: with and maybe even partner with along the way. In
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Speaker 1: other words, don't try to take a vision and do
26:42
Speaker 1: it all by yourself, right, I mean, that's a recipe
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Speaker 1: for failure, a recipe for disaster. Been there, done that,
26:49
Speaker 1: got the hood, And so you need to ask yourself,
26:53
Speaker 1: you know, if that's you you want to go out
26:55
Speaker 1: by yourself, you need to ask yourself, how's that working
26:58
Speaker 1: for me? Right? You know what? Vision also includes night
27:05
Speaker 1: dreams in the workplace. We don't often talk about that,
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Speaker 1: but this is really huge, so listen up. It's very
27:13
Speaker 1: important because in visioning there is a big element of receptivity.
27:19
Speaker 1: That's right, of being on the receiving side of vision. Now,
27:24
Speaker 1: in the Northern hemisphere Western cultures, we typically think about
27:29
Speaker 1: vision as something that's outward flowing. Right. Vision is something
27:34
Speaker 1: that pushes out and is really kind of external to
27:37
Speaker 1: who you are. We talk about vision as being very penetrating,
27:43
Speaker 1: being very active, which is a very masculine kind of energetic. Right.
27:49
Speaker 1: But another core quality that we sometimes miss is that
27:53
Speaker 1: vision can also flow towards us, it can flow inwardly.
27:59
Speaker 1: So vision is also about receiving, and if you're receiving,
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Speaker 1: you are a receptor, a gatherer, a collector, right, Okay,
28:09
Speaker 1: So this is not about outputting the vision, but about
28:12
Speaker 1: being still and being that receptor, okay, which is a
28:16
Speaker 1: more feminine energetic. It's an energetic that's probably more in
28:21
Speaker 1: tune with people who are very sensitive, very sensate, Okay,
28:27
Speaker 1: In terms of how they move through the world in
28:29
Speaker 1: terms of how they understand the world and how they
28:32
Speaker 1: make sense of things in the world. This receiving energetic
28:36
Speaker 1: helps us tap into yet another aspect of vision, which
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Speaker 1: is revelation. Now I mentioned that earlier, right, But this
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Speaker 1: is information. These are images, These are sensations that are
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Speaker 1: being revealed to us. Okay, so flowing inwardly towards us.
28:57
Speaker 1: Now here's some really good news. The archetype of the
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Speaker 1: twenty first century leader is guess what it is, the
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Speaker 1: archetype of the visionary. Other names for this archetype is
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Speaker 1: artists and creative. Now, this archetype has been around since
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Speaker 1: human beings have been on the planet, and in times
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Speaker 1: of great change or upheaval or transition or disruption or transformation,
29:27
Speaker 1: humanity can actually tap into this pattern, this archetype to
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Speaker 1: shift the way in which we do things, to actually
29:36
Speaker 1: shift how we show up as human beings. In fact,
29:41
Speaker 1: we can choose to show up as human beings rather
29:45
Speaker 1: than doing humans. Right, that is so good. I'm going
29:49
Speaker 1: to say that when again, we can choose to show
29:52
Speaker 1: up as human beings rather than as doing humans. In fact,
29:57
Speaker 1: I just got off a call where we talked about that,
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Speaker 1: you know, where you have to just kind of slow
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Speaker 1: down enough to realize that being okay is just as important,
30:08
Speaker 1: if not more important, than doing right. So during times
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Speaker 1: of great change, great transition, we have this pattern in
30:19
Speaker 1: human behavior that we can tap into. And that pattern
30:23
Speaker 1: is the pattern or the archetype of the visionary or
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Speaker 1: the artist or the creative. And the really good news
30:29
Speaker 1: is that that archetype is now available to more people,
30:34
Speaker 1: and available to more leaders who are now more open
30:37
Speaker 1: and more receptive right because they're more conscious of this
30:41
Speaker 1: amazing archetype. What's work in me today is creative perseverance,
30:51
Speaker 1: specifically leading with creative perseverance in our extraordinary times, these
30:57
Speaker 1: are surely vuka times. That's right, I said, Vuka vuca. Now,
31:04
Speaker 1: for those of you who might be new to that term,
31:07
Speaker 1: vuka simply means volatility, uncertainty, chaos, and ambiguity. Times where
31:15
Speaker 1: again we experiences wave after wave after wave of disruptive change, okay,
31:21
Speaker 1: and wave after wave after wave of what we know of,
31:26
Speaker 1: what we're familiar with right just get stripped away, just
31:32
Speaker 1: falls away, falls apart. So in this kind of a world,
31:38
Speaker 1: what we know for sure is that volatility, uncertainty, chaos,
31:42
Speaker 1: and ambiguity. VUKA will continue to be the norm. What
31:47
Speaker 1: we don't know is what form, of what shape it
31:50
Speaker 1: will take. And let me tell you something else. This
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Speaker 1: is not new. I mean, VUKA is not new, right,
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Speaker 1: It's happened numerous times in the history of humankind, and
32:02
Speaker 1: it has happened throughout the history of the world. What
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Speaker 1: our world needs now to respond to this VUKA environment
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Speaker 1: is visionaries. What the world needs now is artists. Now
32:20
Speaker 1: more than ever, the world needs our artistry, our imagination,
32:26
Speaker 1: our creativity at the center of our individual, corporate, and
32:33
Speaker 1: public lives. Artists are informants. They know stuff, right, and
32:42
Speaker 1: usually they know stuff way ahead of the masses. Art
32:48
Speaker 1: is an informant, art is an armature, and if we're
32:52
Speaker 1: really conscious and intentional, art and artists can become agents
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Speaker 1: of change, agents of transformation, agents of innovation, of redemption,
33:04
Speaker 1: of renewal. Now, these artists that I'm talking about are
33:09
Speaker 1: not running around with paint brushes, okay, or dan shoes, right,
33:13
Speaker 1: They're not the ones with the instruments. I mean, we
33:16
Speaker 1: are talking about them, but we're also talking about artists
33:19
Speaker 1: in the sense of, you know, how we show up
33:21
Speaker 1: for our professional lives, right. The doctors and the nurses
33:26
Speaker 1: we see, okay. The folks who are there serving us
33:31
Speaker 1: at the grocery store. The folks who serve us at
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Speaker 1: the food bank to ensure that we all have bread
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Speaker 1: on our table, that we all have enough feed to eat.
33:42
Speaker 1: The folks who work at the greenhouses all right, who
33:46
Speaker 1: work on the front lines. The folks who work behind
33:49
Speaker 1: the scenes to make sure that our supply chain works
33:52
Speaker 1: as it's supposed to work. These are the folks who
33:56
Speaker 1: deliver blood come rain or snow or sleet or hail, right.
34:02
Speaker 1: The folks who find a way when times are normal
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Speaker 1: and when times are difficult or unpredictable. These are the
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Speaker 1: folks who find a way to keep on keeping on.
34:14
Speaker 1: The folks who hang in there, the ones who persevere,
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Speaker 1: the ones who follow the energy of hope, the ones
34:22
Speaker 1: who follow the energy of yes. These are the artists
34:27
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. These are the ones who change the
34:32
Speaker 1: word impossible impossible too, I'm possible. These are the folks
34:41
Speaker 1: whose first name is Can and whose last name is do. Right.
34:47
Speaker 1: You know these folks, So as you go about your
34:51
Speaker 1: day to day, as you prepare for the rest of
34:54
Speaker 1: your week. I want you to ask yourself one question.
35:00
Speaker 1: And here's the question, what's working you? Because what's working
35:06
Speaker 1: you is exactly what needs to come into fruition now,
35:12
Speaker 1: not tomorrow, not next week, not next month, but right now.
35:17
Speaker 1: What's working yet is your vision, a vision that it
35:22
Speaker 1: if it came to you, it can only come through
35:27
Speaker 1: you right now. Remember, how you live is how you lead.
35:34
Speaker 1: If you can lead with perseverance, with creative perseverance, you
35:39
Speaker 1: will be equipped to lead in any circumstance. All right, Okay,
35:49
Speaker 1: if you learn something today, be sure to tell somebody. Okay,
35:56
Speaker 1: I want you to share the wealth, share it with
35:59
Speaker 1: your friends, your f family, co workers, so they can
36:02
Speaker 1: be lifted up and inspired and equipped just like you.
36:08
Speaker 1: One of the biggest gifts you can give to someone
36:11
Speaker 1: else is to use your talents, your gifts, your signature
36:16
Speaker 1: presence that exists nowhere else on the planet. Right And
36:22
Speaker 1: I want you to ask yourself, how will I use
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Speaker 1: my artistry to reimagine my neighborhood, to reimagine my home,
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Speaker 1: my classroom, or my team, or my pediatric practice or
36:38
Speaker 1: my chamber of commerce. How can I provide a lifeline
36:43
Speaker 1: to someone else, maybe even someone I may never know,
36:50
Speaker 1: and remember, whatever is working you is your invitation to
36:53
Speaker 1: step into your vision so that you can make a
36:57
Speaker 1: difference in your own life and in the lives of others.
37:03
Speaker 1: As we continue to celebrate the marvelous, majestic music of
37:09
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37:13
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38:18
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38:24
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38:31
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40:06
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