Leaders

 

Life, as we know it, is going to change.  

How?  We don't know - yet.   But we have been 'warned' what is about to become a priority in our lives, and what is not.  We will have to navigate our way through to some kind of coping and managing of the stress of the new world view that is coming our way.

Early in my career I started to assess the various bits of advice I was getting from different people.  The first thing I had to do was weigh the value of their suggestions in view of my personal goals.

The more I learned, the more I had to sift, and the more I tried to put my own personal bits of advice into context.

I learned to stand back and let people be, not insist that they do things 'my way'.  To give them suggestions to try.  To encourage them to find their own best processes.

As we enter a new world view with politicians everywhere sliding ever more to the 'right', someone observed that it was 'scary to have him lead me'.

But here's the thing.  A politician can only 'lead' an individual as far as the individual is willing to go.

I have plenty of practice taking advice from others, deciding if what they are advising is true to my personal set of values.  And then following that set of guidelines or my own moral compass.

So I will continue to light candles for people.  I will do my utmost to approach people with kindness.  To accept people who are different from me.  Since I was raised a Christian, I will ask What Would Jesus Do and then do that, even though I'm no longer a church going person.   (Yes, I still have a bible.)

We are all going to have to figure out how we go forward.  If you need light, I will light a candle for you.