Follow Your Heart

This week, I've thought about many of the people that have influenced me in my professional mindset. Often, when we would be brimming with business, I would have a manager who would be the only one enjoying themselves in the sea of customers. Their reasoning would be a reminder that it is the customers that we all have employment. My grandfather was also a cattle rancher and I grew up in a place with dairy farms. The response that I always hear from them when someone comments on the smell of cow manure would be a big inhale, and "it smells like money to me!". Truth is perspctive in many things, and if we can keep perspective with people, circumstances and emotions, then we can learn to be successful.  

It’s not always easy. Sometimes, especially as a leader; you’re tired, you want a break, but you have to keep going. There is so much demanded of leaders, and they need to remember to stay strong in keeping their standards, especially when the going gets tough, and there is no apparent accountability. I believe that as leaders do this, they will spread that attitude to the people that a leader wants to stick around. In order to be a great leader, you must first learn to be a great follower..

Og mentioned being a master of his emotions. I really found it influential that he accepts that he is part of nature and that he is not perfect. There will be bad days. Those bad days can vary in intensity based on your mood. I know that there are sometimes that I have gone through a day that would have eaten me up and spit me back out, but I was in a good mood, so the day was remarkably good. Our mood can change a lot.