I believe that leadership is not conspicious in its absence. Are you ready to ignite it in your relationships,  your work, your life...your world? Step out of the comfort zone and challenge yourself and others to engage the leader within? It is time to get inspired by what you have the potential to create and re-create should you choose to engage your true power?

Most of us look around at the landscape of our lives, work and world and are touched by a sense of deep angst, a feeling that something is wrong in the world, something dark, something volatile, something that will either touch our life or the life of someone we care about. And, when I look at the movies, media, music that we produce I wonder if those who will study our culture a hundred years from now will not come to the conclusion that we were angry barbarians with sophisticated technology.  Anger seeps from too much of what we create and as we partake in making anger and violence a steady part of the music we listen to, the movies we see, the articles that we read, the conversations that we have we are feeding our soul withgarbage…and you know the expression---garbage in, garbage out.

It is a time to remember that true power is not the ability to command, control or acquire, rather it is the power to lead; to use our head, heart and spirit to serve the greater good in whatever small or big way we can. To build a fence around our commitment to becoming a change agent in whatever way speaks to our strengths, our potential and purpose.  We are all one people on one planet and the closer we get to repairing the links in our enormous human chain the healthier we will all become.  We are one people sharing one planet, and it is our ability to build vertical and horizontal communication and leadership that starts from a place of personal leadership, a resolve to live and lead from goodness to greatness that will sustain our lives, our economic and social prosperity or condemn it to the abyss of destruction and ultimate demise.

Repairing the links starts with our own personal power to make positive changes in our own life, in the thoughts we think, in the actions we take, in the conversations and interactions we have with others. It starts with developing higher emotional intelligence, and expanding upon our ability to think faster, smarter and better. And, it begins with what can be called a more soulful appreciation of both our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges.  An appreciation that can take us forward towards our true potential rather than keeping us stuck in stasis, or living and working in overdrive.

We are social animals, and most of us thankfully possess a moral core that needs to be filled, and when it is not we find ourselves living hollow lives at half mast.  We can be making a great financial living or just scraping by, but as soon as our survival needs are met if we are not living lives and working at jobs that fill our pocketbooks and our souls we are diminishing our power to reach that joy spot, that place of personal contentment where we can appreciate the good in ourselves and in the world around us. 

When we lose our joy spot, we lose the imagination, strength and power to dip into the reservoir of humanity within to engage our own passion, purpose and potential.  Human life is a journey that must ignite a passion for the possible, and if it does not then we are remain in the clutches of anger or dissatisfaction.

While we live in a world where many would laugh at goodness being a conduit to greatness, I think that there is no laughter in goodness because in the end the marketplace and our lives will only reward the creation of value, and value cannot be created without goodness, without a renaissance of the universal values, the power of humanity that is the seedbed for sustainable success.

Human goodness is a virtue that has for too long been sneered at while it should be revered and cultivated in our lives our workplaces, in our hobbies and pastimes, in our entertainment.

There is power in goodness, and it is a power the ignites the possibility of each human being to take small and large steps to help heal, restore and rebuild a better life, better community, better business and a better world.   We are not powerless, we are powerful but our power lies in using the intelligence of our emotions to guide good thoughts that lead actions that create value in our lives.

  Pie in the sky?  Think again. 

Because the power of one man or woman who decides to stretch out of the comfort zone, find his/her joy and use it to do one act of service above self, one act of personal leadership can change his or her world for the better.