To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n
A Chinese proverb tells us: \u201cBe not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.\u201d\u00a0 In his recent article, How to Become the Person You Want to Be<\/em>, Philip Humbert, leadership coach and guru speaks about personal development.\u00a0 He puts his teaching in the context of our growth from the person who we are today and the person whom we will become.\u00a0 To accomplish this he\u00a0believes we need a plan: \u201cSince change and evolution are inevitable, it follows that we either plan and control our growth, or we allow ourselves to be influenced by whatever forces happen to impact us.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n We change every day in our life –\u00a0from our daily experiences, events, the people with whom we interact, all these influences result in\u00a0change.\u00a0 Few people, Humbert suggests, despite their vision of what they want to become or their dreams and goals,\u00a0\u201chave plans or budgets or blueprints to make it happen.\u201d\u00a0 Humbert\u2019s words are a call to action.\u00a0 We have visions, strategies and goals.\u00a0 What specifically will we do and when will we do it to achieve them?\u00a0 Our tomorrows come quickly.\u00a0 Grab your todays and fill them with action that your dreams become reality and you, and the people whom you touch, will become more than we ever dreamed we could be.\u00a0\u00a0Alan Lakein, author,\u00a0reminds\u00a0us:\u00a0 “Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Mike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning A Chinese proverb tells us: \u201cBe not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.\u201d\u00a0 In his… <\/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-314","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\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}