The physician/author, George Sheehan, when speaking at a national conference in 1979 said: “You are unique, never-to-be repeated event. Your parents could make love a million times and never again reproduce the same genetic pattern. You are the only chance this planet has for your unique contribution. Will others’ expectations, rules and roles be your focus? Will you be only what you think you should be? Or will you occur?”

Everyday we are given this ability to occur, this ability to lead and yet, for many of us, we squander it. We have only to look at our current situation to see how the past has corrupted any form of true leadership.

We need to be leaders and we need to lead but we cannot do it while we focus the energy of the past onto and into the hopes of the future. This hope will turn to bitterness and so breed leadership that thrives on bringing about bitterness.

Change needs leadership!

Change needs leadership because it is uncomfortable, it is threatening to the status quo and is it uncertain. It challenges the sense of control and it asks questions that not only show the way, but also forge it. It offers direction and inspires movement, as true leadership is progressive –for all.

To be progressive is about moving from the past, not using the ‘library of excuses’ to keep going back and repeat the same mistakes over and over again. To be progressive is about stepping up.

When I step up I am not afraid to lead. I am not afraid to embrace leadership and I am not afraid of my past because I am not afraid to let it go. I am not afraid to take responsibility for my choices nor am I am afraid to make the choices.

When I step up I take responsibility for the position I have chosen to take and I acknowledge its responsibility.

By doing this, I think, feel and act in accordance to my responsibility, as I recognise that not only am I responsible for myself, but also to others.

I am ready to occur!

(These are my own thoughts and in no way represent the thoughts or ideas of any organisation, company or otherwise).

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