Recently we were travelling back from Anthony Robbins Date with Destiny Gold Coast. It was Truda, Phoenix and myself. The journey door to door was an incredible thirty-eight and a half hours. A long time for a little boy of eighteen months.
What I have learned with young children is that they are designed to test you to your limits. No matter how good your state management they will push and push. Of course this all part of their natural development in establishing boundaries, and creating nurturing and engaging relationships. Well that is my story and I am sticking to it.
Certainly stuck in an enclosed space with a very active and curious young man for the seventeen hour leg from Singapore was at times very searching of my limits.
When we were deplaning (what a lovely Americanism) a man walked past and said to me, 'You really have a great impact on a lot of people'. I thanked him and thought he must have been at Date with Destiny. As a trainer you often get spontaneous feedback from people by the simple virtue of being present as they make some significant changes in their lives.
Nonetheless the gentleman came back over and said, 'I really mean it. You have touched a lot of people on this plane as they watched you care for and attend to your son.'. He went on to say, 'I never cared for my children like that. You have really made me think about how I am with my grandchildren'. He had a tear in his eye.
I was moved and thanked him for the generosity in sharing his story.
I was simply doing the best I could with the resources I had available to me at the time. I hope that I lead from my heart as this is best I can do and the challenge we all live with everyday, to come back to our hearts as the empowering resource in our lives as people.
Perhaps if you lead from your heart you will find the natural leader emerging.
Something to think about, something to feel about.
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