{"id":2749,"date":"2016-07-06T10:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2749"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T01:25:18","slug":"three-minute-leadership-a-journey-mindset-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2016\/07\/three-minute-leadership-a-journey-mindset-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: A Journey Mindset Changes Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>Great leaders know\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0famous words about life\u2019s journey: Life is a journey, not a destination.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/86189.Greg_Anderson\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Anderson<\/a>\u00a0adds to this writing:\u00a0<i>\u201cFocus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found\u00a0<b>not<\/b>\u00a0in finishing an activity but\u00a0<b>in doing it<\/b>.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Pause for a moment in these words: \u201c<i>Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.<\/i>\u201d Intellectually, great leaders know their truth and value. Unfortunately, the\u00a0<i>doing<\/i>\u00a0drive in the great leaders\u2019 lives sometimes overshadows this reality, and precious moments of life are lost to the focus on the ultimate goal of completing the act. It could be the action of a physical exercise: I need to run today, or I need to go to the gym. It may be a visit to see someone to say hello. It could be a dinner commitment or a meeting.\u00a0If the mindset is simply focused on checking the activity off of our calendar, we will have missed the joys, learning, love and beauty of those precious moments.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson tell great leaders: \u201c<i>Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.<\/i>\u201d This is the simple key to incredible joy and happiness \u2013 to stop, pause and say to ourselves, \u201c<i>It\u2019s about my journey. Enjoy each precious moment<\/i>.\u201d It is that simple. In all that you\u00a0<b><i>do<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0<b><i>b<\/i>e<\/b>\u00a0mindful of each precious moment of your magnificent journey.\u201d Remember always, life is a journey. Make it your mindset. In everything that you do, start with the reminder to yourself: Life is a journey. Enjoy the ride.<br \/>\nHave a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2733 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2016\/05\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning Great leaders know\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s\u00a0famous words about life\u2019s journey: Life is a journey, not a destination.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Greg Anderson\u00a0adds to this&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-2749","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\/2749","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=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}