{"id":1089,"date":"2012-12-16T12:35:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T16:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2012-12-16T12:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T16:35:55","slug":"three-minute-leadership-effortless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2012\/12\/three-minute-leadership-effortless\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership- Effortless"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it nice to be human?&#8221; These are words that I often say when something goes awry in the normal course of life&#8217;s beautiful happenings.\u00a0 It could be a moment of forgetfulness, an uncorrected spelling in a presentation or saying one thing and meaning something completely different.\u00a0 It is these wonderful, unique moments that our humanity breaks through and reveals the simplicity and beauty of ourselves.\u00a0 Seth Godin captures this thought in a recent article,\u00a0<em>Effortless,<\/em>\u00a0and teaches us the magnificent message of these precious moments.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>Effortless &#8211;\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>When John Coltrane plays the melody early in the track Harmonique, you can hear some of the notes crack. Of course, Coltrane was completely capable of playing these notes correctly. And yet he didn&#8217;t.\u00a0It&#8217;s this effort and humanity that touches us about his solo, not just the melody. Sometimes, &#8220;never let them see you sweat,&#8221; is truly bad advice. The work of an individual who cares often exposes the grit and determination and effort\u00a0that it takes to be present.<\/div>\n<div>Perfecting your talk, refining your essay and polishing your service until all elements of you disappear might be obvious tactics, but they remove the thing we were looking for: you.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We go through life giving other\u2019s an image of ourselves, a picture that we constantly and fervently reinforce.\u00a0 We are strong, committed, focused, untiring and eternally enthusiastic.\u00a0 This is the person that people know and love. They take joy in who we are.\u00a0 Yet, in those singular moments when people see you not up to your \u2018perfect\u2019 game, they find in you the simplicity and beauty of your humanity \u2013 that beautiful, childish and imperfect you who continues to strive for perfection.\u00a0 They find you.\u00a0 The learning is not to seek and propagate those \u2018human\u2019 moments, but to give people that \u2018you\u2019 who is so beautifully unique in this entire world.\u00a0 As Lao Tzu tells us:\u00a0 \u201cThe snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.\u201d As Godin write:\u00a0 \u201c\u2026 the thing we were looking for: you.\u201d\u00a0 Be more than you ever dreamed you could be\u2026 and so much more.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Mike<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it nice to be human?&#8221; These are words that I often say when something goes awry in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[443,444,445,31],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership","tag-effortless","tag-image","tag-reinforcement","tag-seth-godin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}