Depending on how you view time, you may be excluded from many opportunities.
Our tolerance for the passing of time has compressed. A meal must appear in an instant. Knowledge is accessed immediately. Conversations are laser-focused digital exchanges.
Our unwillingness to waste time has grown to be an obsession that does not tolerate the investment of time.
Time matures. Maturity takes time.
Depending on how you view time, you may exclude yourself from maturing toward something more – a better leader, a better parent, a better you.
Exemplary leaders forge their visionary touch across the passing years of failure, refinement, and victory.
Time allows the convictions of courage to grow deep roots that cannot be shaken when confronting challenges. Fear melds into confidence. Doubt emerges as encouragement.
Leaders must endure the passing years that bring about wisdom, experience, and strength. There is no exclusion to the rule. The exclusionary nature of time insists that personal growth occurs over years of significant change and subtle adjustment. Our leadership style emerges as we chip away impediments and put on new behaviors. Our ever-changing internal dialogue writes a novel about our journey.
While we grasp at the 3 tips to become this or the 5 steps to acquire that, hoping that these magical word potions are full of promise, time proves they are not. There are no shortcuts to doing the necessary work to become an authentic and impactful leader.
If experience and skill are not allowed to steep in time, true leadership development will not emerge. A refusal to invest the necessary time will exclude the leader from reaping the benefit of deep and lasting personal growth.
Respect for these years of experience serves to separate the leaders who will change the world from those who will merely survive.
Embrace time and let it’s curing process refine the great leader within you.