Do They Know?

Happy Friday Friends!

I hope and trust this post finds you all having a great day and that you are having an awesome week!

I am rereading Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek. Earlier this week I read something that I have thought about often over the past few days. I would like to share it with you here this morning.

"The only way people will know what you believe is by the things you say and do, and if you're not consistent in the things you say and do, no one will know what you believe."

 

My question, my challenge for us on this beautiful Friday morning Friends is, "Do they know?" Do the people that we interact with every day, and those who we will only interact with once, know what we believe? Is there integrity between what we say and what we do? Are we walking out, in every moment of every day, what we truly believe?

 

It is so easy to say what we perceive to be "right" however if we don't believe what we say it will be impossible to consistently speak, and more importantly do, what we say. In the absence of this consistency people will not know what we believe. If they don't know what we believe there will be no trust. If there is no trust their is no relationship. If there is no relationship there is...nothing. How many leaders - of homes, families, businesses - have failed because nobody really knew what they believed?

 

And I want to touch for a moment on "right." What is right? Well, I can't tell you what is right for you or for anyone else. I can only tell you what is right for me, to testify what I have found to be true in my life. I can then only say and do the things that I believe (there is that word again!) to be true for me. When I do this, while you might not agree with me...and that is completely fine, at least you will know what I believe. The game of trying to do what everyone says is right, to have everyone agree with you or to convince everyone else that your way is the only right way (I feel like I just described the entire political landscape!) is a losing proposition for everyone. Nobody knows what you truly believe, there is no trust, there is no meaningful relationships and worst of all, we violate our own Spirits. By the way, a violated Spirit will never rest. It will gnaw at you - meeting you at your pillow every night and greeting you every morning when you wake from your fitful sleep - until you heed it's call. Trust me, I have learned that one from experience! :)

 

So, in summation, "Do they know?"

 

Let me share one more excerpt from the book with you in closing:

 

"You can't ask others what you have to do to be authentic. Being authentic means that you already know."

 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if there is ever anything I can do for you or your family. I will always be willing to help you any way I can.

 

Have a great day, a wonderful weekend and please cherish those precious families.

 

Kev