Keep making them, often. Means you are learning and growing.
Lwendolent: I want you to think about all those little rocks and pebbles, because this tales of leadership goes into work as well as personal life just as much. As leaders, you're always trying to minimize the level of severity of the mistake. We are all one decision away, he says.
So what I really want you to think about again is this look back in your past and ask yourself, do I have any of those bolder moments? And if you did, hold yourself accountable with ownership. Mistakes can be beautiful. They can be absolutely beautiful. We can all learn from them together.
What's up, Cadre family? Remarkable. Thursday. Hope you're having a great day wherever you're located throughout the great United States. Really just want to bring forth an idea when we talk about leadership today, about mistakes. So I want you to picture yourself in this spot. You ready for this? Okay, so, in Minnesota, that's where I'm based out of. We have a lot of lakes, rivers, the Great Lakes, lake Superior, all the things, right? But I want you to put yourself in a lake or in an area. Okay.
I want you to put yourself in a lake or an area. And I want you to think of, like, all the rocks on the sand, all the rocks you see, like, you know, millions and thousands of rocks. Then you see a couple really, really big rocks. You know exactly what I'm talking about. So kind of close your eyes and picture yourself there. And I want you to think about all those little rocks and pebbles, because this tales of leadership goes into work as well as personal life just as much. And I want you to think about all those mistakes that we make as leaders, as employees, as teammates.
And you have all those pebbles, and they can easily be moved, they can be fixed, they can be rearranged, they can be worked. And then all of a sudden, there's those big, big boulders, you know, where you see that massive boulder that's on the side of the beach or otherwise, and that beast ain't going anywhere, right? So you see that big, big, big one. And those are the ones that we try to avoid. Hard to move, hard to progress through, hard to overcome. So as leaders, you're always trying to minimize the level of severity of the mistake.
So I want you to think about all the times that you are taking your team through something that you're working, maybe a human resource issue or otherwise, that you have a process that you're trying to bring forth. And how you always want to try to roll these things is to think about them from the level of severity as you continue to make choices and decisions. Because I believe this wholly in my heart. I believe this wholly in my heart when it comes down to the side of personal and or professional, that we are all one decision away.
We are all one decision away, not from the tiny little pebbles that we see on the side of the lake or the river or the ocean, but that one massive boulder or that one cliff. And I believe that in all my heart that we're all one decision away. And when you work in any work environment that you're in, how critical it is to keep your emotional state together your mental state together, and also when you're not to acknowledge that as well, because we can all overcome the pebbles. We all can, right? The little rocks, the little tiny rocks on the beach that I asked you to put yourself, to put your mind to.
But I think when it comes to those big boulders, that's when it comes to fractured relationships, loss of job, frustration with the individuals that you work with. Are you a teammate? Are you not a teammate? Do we break down business processes, etcetera? So when you go forward from this tales of leadership, it's not fear of making mistakes. That's we should never have fear of that. There's always going to be mistakes in any business that we work with, working with other individuals, working with people, because we're humans and humans make mistakes.
That's just what we do. Create as many pebbles as you can and learn from them. You can move them, you can throw them, you can do whatever you got to do. But the big one that I really, really, really want you to focus on. Speaker wonder. What's up, Chris? What's up, Alec? What up, Speaker Wonder? I see I need a Cadre hat. Email me and I will send you one. It's lwendolent. Lwendolent. You can see my last name, lwendlantadre IO. If you send that to me in email, I will absolutely fire a hat to you. I promise you that.
Speaker wonder. Take that to the bank. So look at these bad boys. They're pretty great. So what I really want you to think about again, going forward in this tales of leadership is this look back in your past and actually ask yourself, do I have any of those bolder moments? And if you did, hold yourself accountable with ownership, to think about that, to truly think about that, like, where did I go wrong? Where did I miss? Was it my ego? Was it this? Was it this? Was it this? Like, go through that checklist with yourself in those boulders and some things, yes, come into the way of life.
Like I said, mental health, substance abuse, you name it. We're here to support those boulders. Let's knock them out of the way together. Let's work together to support each other through those boulders of life with mental health, substance abuse or otherwise. And we can continue to push those out of the way so we can make the next ones, these tiny, tiny, tiny little pebbles together in those tiny little pebbles. We can all deal with mistakes. We can all learn from them together. And that's the beauty of working together, of as teammates.
But I want to reiterate this one last time we have those big boulders, it takes our team to lift them up. It takes each other to lift those up. It may be caused by one person, don't get me wrong, but who's behind that individual? Let's talk about it in Minnesota terms. To move that snowball together. To continue to move that snowball and move that snowball where you can actually make a beautiful snowman. Right. Or move that rock out of the way so the river water can continue to go through. Mistakes can be beautiful.
They can be absolutely beautiful. It's just how you view them. Do you view them as complete failures or do you view them as opportunities for self growth? I've made thousands of mistakes. I mean, thousands in of every one of the opportunities that I have and I've had some unbelievable boulders. Trust me. Some massive boulder blunders where I'm like, oh, my gosh. But you know what? We can all work from, work through them, learn together. So I love you guys very much. It's a pleasure. It's an honor to be here together.
And I hope today you think about those moments as you're continuing to work with other human beings at your work and you think to yourself like, these are pebbles. We can move these pebbles together. These are boulders. Let's get our team together and do what we need to do. Have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your week, you guys. If there's anything I can ever do for you on this live streams my email, I'm here for you. Bye.
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