{"id":267,"date":"2011-06-12T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=267"},"modified":"2011-07-01T18:02:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T22:02:41","slug":"three-minute-leadership-looking-past-the-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2011\/06\/three-minute-leadership-looking-past-the-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Looking Past the Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n

Speaking of the power of belief in self holds Mary Kay Ash, American business woman, wrote:\u00a0 \u201cAerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn\u2019t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn\u2019t know that so it goes on flying anyway.\u201d\u00a0 Ash\u2019s words are reflected in the magnificent story that Caroline Casey shares about her life in a recent TED presentation, Looking Past Limits<\/a>.\u00a0 Caroline was legally blind from birth.\u00a0 Her parents, realizing that they needed to prepare her for the day she would live on her own, when she was three, decided not to tell her that she was blind.\u00a0 From age three until seventeen she lived her life believing she could see, undaunted by any limitations – \u201cNo special needs schools. No labels. No limitations.\u00a0 My ability and my potential\u2026 They gave me the ability to believe, totally believe that I could (see).\u201d<\/p>\n

At age 17, she learned\u00a0 she was legally blind.\u00a0 For the next eleven years, with the strength of determination forged by the power of her belief in herself and her possibilities, she lived a life that no one would know that she was legally blind \u2013 from archeologist, restaurant manager, masseuse to being a global consultant with Accenture.\u00a0 Of what she accomplished she said:\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s extraordinary how far belief can take you.\u201d\u00a0 Finally, her eyes gave out. Her will was again tested as she struggled to find purpose and meaning to her life It came when she found something to again believe in \u2013 a thousand kilometer journey across India which started a new part of her life as a social entrepreneur in establishing Elephant Family<\/em> dealing with Asian elephant conservation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The learnings she gives us are captured in her words:\u00a0 \u201cAnd I never needed eyes to see \u2013 never.\u00a0 I simple needed vision and belief.\u00a0 And if you truly believe – and I mean believe from the bottom of your heart \u2013 you can make change happen.\u00a0 And we need to make it happen, because every single one of us\u2026must be the very best of ourselves.\u201d\u00a0 Belief in ourselves \u2013 in our possibilities, our potential \u2013 has awesome power.\u00a0 It is the internal fire that illuminates and ignites our incredible gifts, exposing our incredible possibilities .\u00a0 It Elisabeth K\u00fcbler-Ross, psychiatrist and author, writes:\u00a0 \u201cPeople are like stained-glass windows.\u00a0 They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is one other majestic gift that belief extends to each of us – it opens our eyes to see the beauty and greatness in others.\u00a0 \u00a0We see their infinite possibilities, and in doing see, awaken within them a belief in themselves, a fire that will ignite and change their lives forever.\u00a0 Remember always, \u201cYou have everything you need, if you just believe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n

Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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