{"id":2230,"date":"2014-11-05T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:38:53","slug":"three-minute-leadership-create-your-own-images-of-what-tomorrow-may-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2014\/11\/three-minute-leadership-create-your-own-images-of-what-tomorrow-may-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Create Your Own Images of What Tomorrow May Bring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Seuss\">Dr. Seuss<\/a> wrote: <em>\u201cThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!\u201d<\/em> Oh, the beauty, power and joy of imagination. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bernard_Shaw\">George Bernard Shaw<\/a> tells us:<em> \u201cImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.\u201d<\/em> It happens each morning as we look in the mirror and ask of that magnificent person who looks back at us: What will I imagine to bring to my life this day?<\/p>\n<p>In that moment there is a choice: to imagine our life as having boundless potential and possibilities, or one of limitations and restricted opportunities. For great leaders there is only one choice. They hear <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelangelo\">Michelangelo\u2019s<\/a> words: <em>\u201cI saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.\u201d<\/em> They, too, see an image in the marble and they choose to set it free as they open their world to infinite possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Re-imagine your world and fill the days of your life with wonder. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a> wrote: <em>\u201cImagination is more important than knowledge.\u201d<\/em> His words are beautifully complemented by those of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carl_Sagan\">Carl Sagan<\/a>: <em>\u201cImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were.\u201d<\/em> See angels in marble and cathedrals in rock piles. Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._K._Rowling\">J. K. Rowling\u2019s<\/a> words: <em>\u201cWe do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1480\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-188x188.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2010\/08\/2a3c9c8.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning. Dr. Seuss wrote: \u201cThink left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","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\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}