{"id":2257,"date":"2014-11-23T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2014-11-23T23:36:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:36:58","slug":"three-minute-leadership-making-every-day-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2014\/11\/three-minute-leadership-making-every-day-a-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Making Every Day a Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/marksinthesand.com\/2012\/05\/21\/review-make-today-count\/\">Make Today Count<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_C._Maxwell\">John Maxwell<\/a>, write: \u201cYou will never change your life until you change something you do daily\u2026. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you are doing today\u2026. The way you live your life today is preparing you for your tomorrow.\u00a0 The question is, what are you preparing for?\u201d Each footprint the great leader leaves is a direction for the one that follows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell\u2019s three simple formulae guide the great leaders\u2019 preparation for their daily journey:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good Decisions \u2013 Daily Discipline = \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Plan Without Payoff<\/p>\n<p>Daily Discipline\u00a0 \u2013 Good Decisions =\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Regimentation Without Reward<\/p>\n<p>Good Decisions + Daily Discipline =\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A Masterpiece of Potential<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He offers great leaders <em>Maxwell\u2019s Daily Dozen<\/em> as a framework for making each day a masterpiece, with each element harmonizing, complementing and strengthening the other:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Attitude<\/em><\/strong><em>:<\/em>\u00a0 choose and display the right attitude daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Priorities<\/em><\/strong>: Determine and act on important priorities daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Health:<\/em><\/strong> Know and follow Healthy guidelines daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Family:<\/em><\/strong> Communicate with and care for my family daily. Thinking: Practice and develop good thinking daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Commitment:<\/em><\/strong> Make and keep proper commitments daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Finances:<\/em><\/strong> Make and properly manage dollars daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faith:<\/em><\/strong> Deepen and live out my faith daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Relationships:<\/em><\/strong> Initiate and invest in solid relationship daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Generosity:<\/em><\/strong> Plan for and model generosity daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Values:<\/em><\/strong> Embrace and practice good values daily.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Growth:<\/em><\/strong> Seek and experience improvements daily.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henry_Wadsworth_Longfellow\">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/a>, poet and educator, tells us: \u201cLives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.\u201d Choose to make each day your personal masterpiece \u2013 one filled with passion, purpose, giving and deep caring and love.\u00a0 Choose also each day that you will help others, if only one, to create their daily masterpiece &#8211; one that will change their life forever in becoming more than they ever dreamed they could be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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:\u00a0 The Great leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &nbsp; In his book, Make Today Count, John Maxwell, write: \u201cYou will never change your life until you change&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-2257","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\/2257","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=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}