There’s
no point in clinging on to what you can always get back. Focus instead on what
is most valuable to you and which you can never regain.
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Rajeswari: brilliant and simple leadership wisdom |
At a workshop we led earlier in the week, a young manager Rajeswari shared
an unputdownable lesson in leadership. She said: “Leadership was thrust on me
when I was barely 12. I had no idea back then what the world was all about nor
did I know that you needed to demonstrate personal leadership to survive out
here. I have been raised by my mother who is a single parent. Several traumatic
circumstances in my family forced me to take a decision when I was 12 – was I
going to spend the rest of my Life fighting over family wealth and property
that was legitimately due to me or was I going to spend quality time with my
mother? I chose the latter. My reasoning was that money can always be made. I
reckoned that my mother and I may not always be there together. It’s been hard
clawing my way through and climbing up in Life, but being able to be with my
mother has made all the difference. I have no regrets.”
Young Rajeswari’s wisdom is both brilliant and simple. She reminds
us to take our lives more seriously. Often times we are subconsciously
prioritizing people and things that don’t matter over people (and things) that
matter to us. And almost always we put ourselves last. Nothing wrong with being
selfless. But being selfless at the cost of your inner peace and happiness is
not quite an intelligent thing to do.
Personal leadership is critical to living intelligently. It requires
that you understand what is more valuable to you, what gives you happiness and it
requires your focusing only
on it. Money can always be made. Things can always be bought or replaced. But
people and Life’s many “liveable” moments, those that matter, are irreplaceable
once they are gone.
Rajeswari had the intuitive common sense to decide in favor of what
was really important to her than sweat over what appeared to be important. Perhaps
you may want to borrow her principle and try applying it in your own Life. I
believe it will definitely be worth the effort, time and opportunity! And then some day, like her, you too will not have any
regrets!
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