Finding Our Ways
The further and further down this coaching path I get the more I realize that all coaching is personal. There is no way to move a business without moving its people. I cannot inspire or evoke greatness from a business. I cannot educate a business. A business is a construct, an idea, or rather a big rubber-band-ball of ideas conceived by humans, by people - and made tangible, real and hopefully good.
It’s all personal. Seems to me, the sooner we business owners and executives get that, the sooner we will be on the fast track to mastery. And I don’t mean just technical masters, like super-managers, I mean masters as men and women, on the path to becoming true elders, worthy of our youth’s attention. Protectors of what is good. Evolvers of people. Builders of communities that empower, uplift and, yes, employ many, many people.
Here’s a poem I wrote two years ago. The personal journey from mere productivity to enduring greatness requires we choose purposefully how, where and why we invest ourselves. It’s no easy thing to become masters, in cultures that have so many ideas of what we should be. Many of those ideas would have us focus on nothing but productivity. No easy thing at all. We just have to keep learning what we will accept and what we will refuse. Who are we becoming as men and women leaders, and how much of that we will actually be? Will we be tomorrow’s great and wise elders?
Finding Our Ways
We are tired
Of being implored and incited
To act like constant strength and then doing it;
We are wasted
By flashes of blemish-free faces
And programs for how we should be;
We are angry
Our bodies won’t stay lithe and supple enough
To be enough for everyone else – and ourselves;
We are hardened
By noisy sales pitches
That make slow deep breathing impossible at dinner;
We are scared
Our dreams have seeped out like gas from rusty canisters
While sliding toward someone else’s North Star;
We crave
Respite and rapture
That feels like hot bear hugs and lingering French kisses;
And we forget
We can choose much bigger gods,
To be awesome spirits and free.
Copyright © David C. Facer, Jr. All rights reserved.
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