{"id":2616,"date":"2015-12-27T13:37:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T18:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:45:40","slug":"three-minute-leadership-what-we-are-about-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/12\/three-minute-leadership-what-we-are-about-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: What We Are About to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Wooden\">John Wooden<\/a> tells great leaders: \u201c<em>Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming<\/em>.\u201d Who we <em>are <\/em>is what we think. What we <em>think <\/em>is what we do. What we do is what we become. Therefore, what we think is what we become. In his recent blog posting, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2015\/11\/about-to-be.html\">About to Be<\/a><\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seth_Godin\">Seth Godin<\/a> wrote:<\/p>\n<p><em>The only way to become the writer who has written a book is to write one.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The only way to become the runner who has just finished a run it to go running.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You might dread the writing or the running or the leading, but it&#8217;s the key step on the road to becoming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If it&#8217;s easier, remind yourself what you&#8217;re about to be.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Remind yourself what you\u2019re about to be\u2026 always. Remind yourself that you are <em>becoming<\/em> more than you ever dreamed you could be\u2026 and more\u2026 so much more, because you are <em>doing <\/em>your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. May this New Year be the best yet! Life is so very good.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful and wondrous day, a magnificent week and a Happy New Year!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2476 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" 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 John Wooden tells great leaders: \u201cSuccess comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that&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":[],"class_list":["post-2616","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\/2616","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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2617,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}