The myth says you have to wait for it before you do something inspired. Especially when it’s the details of life, of leadership, of management of your business.
Leaders have this myth so you get tangled up with “blocks or resistance”, so you go play golf instead.
You have heard the devil is in the details. It’s nonsense. It’s all mythology.
So if you’re a leader, or any other kind of human being, please know that you are already inspired.
You were born inspired, and your whole biological system runs on inspiration.
But wait! What if I don’t FEEL inspired? What if I am waiting, hoping to tackle that pile in the back office until I feel inspired?
It’s tempting to do just about anything but really look at the details of our business. Sponsor one more event, do one more lunch, go to a baseball game.
Anything but delete the 7,000 emails piling up in the inbox, unread. Anything but really think through an employee’s performance plan (which they are just waiting for, pleading for). Anything but that.
That’s because you (and I) put things on top of that inspiration….like limiting beliefs about yourself, or negative ways of labeling the mundane tasks or people around you, and pretty soon that inspiration feels out of reach and you sit around and wait for it to emerge from somewhere.
But it’s always in you ready to go.
It wants your permission to express; and for a leader, the way inspiration expresses, is for you to start organizing, start following through, start one piece of paper at a time.
Even if you are executing badly, you are still moving the needle in the right direction because it is forming a new habit, a new pathway that reminds you that you can find inspiration in the details.
My coach reminds me, always wait for inspiration to lead my business. And that happens every day at 8 am.
This has been deeply inspired by one of my mentors, Steve Chandler, who inspires me to write everyday. Check out: www.clubfearless.com.
