"Where there is a tree is because before there was a seed", this phrase of popular knowledge leads me to share some ideas that I hope will be of interest to those who go through life every day in search of experiences that allow them to recognize the meaning of what is that they do and above all in finding the satisfaction of the efforts made in the journey of life traveled. If sometimes we complain about the desert of meaning through which our reality passes, it is perhaps because we abandon our destiny in the hands of third parties, because we allow others to point out the route we must follow. This tree full of realities but also potentialities, is the expression of what we do daily to make it more or less lush.This phrase also invites us not to lose heart in the certainty that our work will be rewarded and that it will obtain the expected fruits. Many times we believe that our paths lead nowhere or that our attempts are sterile, yet we cannot lose hope in history and in the results that will come sooner rather than later.
"The vision is a dream in action" said Baker in his invitation not to falter in the efforts required to reach the promised summit. The strength to advance in the purpose comes from within the motivation with which we promote the desires and the encouragement that we put into what we do. We are responsible for the history that we are building, others are inspiration, travel companions chosen or assigned to live the daily experiences that tell me how valuable it is to find people who support our efforts. Every day we have the responsibility to identify the actions required to advance towards the goal, it is not enough to want to achieve something, it is necessary to get going and not lose heart or forget the route we must travel.In our walk we encounter situations or people that distract us from that main path, or we simply abandon it because it seems difficult, long or tortuous and we prefer the comfort offered by the temptations of an ephemeral, fleeting and sometimes meaningless reality.
"Being leaders of themselves" means that the triumph is not outside nor is it the consequence of past events, but rather an experience that we build every day, that we feed with what we do in the workplace, academia, and society, family and other aspects that constitute our daily life. Our personal history is woven with what we have sown in our lives, it is projected into the future from the current reality, from our capacities that lead us to take control of our lives and to be architects of the realities that we have to live as a conscious consequence and not as experience derived from alien situations.
"Making things happen" is one of the great invitations that S. Covey makes us when speaking of proactivity, it is about accepting that history is in our hands, that we should not resort to Manichean, reductionist or esoteric interpretations that lead us to find those responsible for what happens to us in dimensions that exceed our capacity for understanding but which we can always blame. Taking charge of life and becoming protagonists of our own history is the ability we have to expand our circle of influence, to become a living testimony that it is possible to overcome difficulties and intervene in the reality that we live.
"Just because you can do something doesn't mean you have to" is a powerful invitation from Dave Marcum that forces us to think about the rationale behind action in the sense of recognizing that it is not enough to have the ability but rather that identify if it is convenient for our personal development. On many occasions we navigate in the sea of organizations trying to find something that satisfies us as professionals and we forget that in the process we must contribute and leave our mark as a testimony that our passage through shared history was not in vain. The fact of having the necessary resources to acquire or do something does not enable us to justify it as adequate and necessary. In many situations of our professional and work life we turn to our position, experience,training or popularity to show that we can impose our point of view, however we know that it is not necessarily the right thing to do.
"Empowerment is to recognize the capacity that the other has to do something", this phrase refers to the need to let people's capacities flow and recognize that each collaborator can contribute significantly to the achievement of the company's results, which is capable of making decisions and assuming the consequences of their actions. It is a way of gaining experience and autonomy, a way of training the collaborator to develop her own criteria and emerge as a leader capable of having a holistic vision of her own context and not just an executor of tasks that does not question but obeys.
"Doing the right thing even if it is difficult" is the invitation that leads us to incorporate ethical aspects into the daily management of the organization, to recognize that the business path is full of temptations and offers that do not necessarily lead to the sustainable success of the organization. The right thing implies the recognition of integrity as a personal value that involves the work team. Personal success is not the result or the point of arrival only, it includes a process full of difficulties perhaps but one that assumed the costs of legality. Values are guides that guide action, they are lights that illuminate the path of daily life and that lead us to the expected results, they are not the goal but they lead us to it without running over or disqualifying others.
These brief reflections are an invitation for us to assume the reality that we had to live as a challenge, where we are able to interpret history as a consequence that comes from our own hands and in them we have shaped the situations we face every day. We are leaders, we are protagonists and therefore an example for those who see in our way of acting an invitation to understand that the natural problems of existence are solved from our own personal capacity and with the support of those who have always been aware of us.
