Dandelion People

Dandelions, love en or hate em, they have a lot to teach us.

 A story from nature about how we could and should react to life.

 I love dandelions!

Call me crazy.
Call me lazy.
Call me a weed lover all you want –I Love dandelions.

I used to hate ’em, but now I love ’em.

Why in the world would I have an affinity for such annoying plants? Because they are a splendid illustration of how we ought to live!

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Shake it off and take a step up.

When your leadership A.S.K. (Attitudes, Skills & Knowledge) are questioned shake off the dust, learn the lesson from the farmer and donkey.

‘One day a farmer’s donkey fell into an abandoned well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway; so it just wasn’t worth it to him to try to retrieve the donkey.

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Two short lessons for effective leadership

Remember inside out not outside in

Most people approach success from the outside in to achieve real success you have to do it from the inside out. Focus on your character and your whole life improves. Changes in character bring substance and power while external improvements are merely cosmetic and quickly fade away.

I visit a wide range of leaders from a wide variety of backgrounds; one thing I notice with over 99% of leaders is that they use the word ‘I’.
Two short but powerful leadership lessons.

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Food for thought.

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”

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We are all made to fly

Once there was a king who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained.

Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived. The king summoned healers and sorcerers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly.

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