A Monday reflection on bold followership that links the winner’s mindset with planning, learning, and perception, and argues that growth often comes from amplifying others and being an attentive, skillful follower.
On Mondays, we often talk about the idea of following. No one has ever won without thinking that they were going to first. Following is not all the things that we hear. In those moments when you are boldly following you're not going to win.
Oh, hey, good morning there, Cadre. How are we doing on this Monday, Monday, Monday, Monday it is. May. It's Cinco de Mayo, isn't it? May 5th. Happy Cinco de Mayo, everybody. I hope you're doing great, but if you're not, that's okay, too. And I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. On Mondays, as many people kick off their weeks and in those middle moments of getting work done and middles of heading from meeting to meeting in the middles of startings and finishings, kind of sounds like we're talking about thin space, but we're not.
But in the middles of all those things, we often think about, how do I get better at what I do? How do I grow? Where am I going? We look at our development. It's natural. It's natural to think about where we are going and what we are doing. But I'll tell you this, I'll use a sport kind of a sport pathway for a moment. Morning, Maffy. Morning, T. North Bezel Bits, Kelly. Nice to see y' all today. Happy, happy Monday. So the thought. No one has ever won without thinking that they were going to first.
Meaning think about a sports team. A sports team that's. That's won the. Won the championship. Literally 100% of the time, that team has thought about winning before they did. No team has ever won the thing, the game, the moment, the inning, the match, the whatever, without going, you know what? I think we're gonna win. And here's how we're gonna do it all. That is to say, this carries over into our professional life as well as if you don't think that what you are doing can lead you to somewhere, it's not going to.
And the reason why is because we have to learn. We have to plan, we have to perceive. We have to bolster the pathways within our mind and body and spirit to actually get to where we're going. You know, on Mondays, I often talk about the idea of following. The idea that even though we live in a world that for some reason loves to tell you, lead, lead, lead, be in front, do the new thing, be the loud, be the first, be the front, be the one who's doing the cool thing that everybody in the room's going to remember doesn't make any sense if everybody's doing that.
Who's responding to it, who's receiving it, who's being impacted by it? Yes, sometimes we are the impactful sure but more so we have to spend the majority of our time being impacted. Sure, sometimes we are the one who's going to say the thing that changes the room. But most of the time, we're going to be the one with the ears that hears that other person do that thing. And we're going to support them, we're going to amplify them, we're going to raise them up, we're going to fan their flames. That's what life is made of.
Maybe making up numbers here. Maybe it's like 20% leading and 80% being really good at following. I don't ever hear anybody say stuff like that. So we often talk about this idea of following boldly here on Mondays to kick off the day. So back to this idea of. Of no one's ever won without thinking they're going to win beforehand. Morning, Jules. Luke. My hair. So the funny thing is, I'm one of those people that I get haircuts, and it's normally a few weeks later that people go, oh, you got a haircut.
This haircut circa London, two weeks ago. Yeah, a little over two weeks ago. Yeah, I agree. It looks like today I got a haircut. Maybe it's because I didn't wash it. It's fun how that happens. So to the point as we think about the necessity in thinking that we're winning, if you've lived in a world where you're never supposed to follow, and if you find yourself following, that's where we spend the majority of our lives being. Following is not good. Following is not active. Following is not all the things that we hear.
But we never win unless we say we know we're going to win or we think we're going to win, or here's how we think we're going to win. It makes sense that so many of us never get to that winning place. Because if you're not saying, this is part of my puzzle, this is part of my plan, this is how I'm going to get there. In those moments when you are boldly following, you're right, you're not going to. So today, in those moments when you are being a really, really good follower. Maria, it's been a while since I've seen you, too, my friend.
It is so great to see your face in that little circle and to hear your words and get to the root. Rachel just signed in as well. Y' all, we got a great Monday posse here. Raise up your coffee mug or your water bottle or your Sprite or your Mountain Dew or your or your Oreos or whatever you're having this morning. And cheers to this crew of people. And today, when you find yourself in the seat of follower, say to yourself, ha, ha ha. This is part of my plan. If I follow boldly, right now, I'm going to get to where I think I'm going to get to.
It's going to be good, y' all. Tomorrow we have the fourth edition of youf can't say that on Social Media. Civil Discourse on Social Media. And we're going to be welcoming one of our neighbors to the north up in Canada, dietitian Drew Hemler, who's literally kind of a superstar. I sent the message, I'm like, hey, Drew, would you ever. He's like, yeah. So if you are around 3pm Central Standard Time tomorrow, we're going to be talking about. You Can't Say that on Social Media. A Civil discourse on social Media.
The Food Edition. With so much noise right now coming at us from the food world, from the health and human services world, we're going to have someone who's going to be able to help us navigate, how do we cut through, how do we ground down in everything food. In this wonderful world of social media that we engage in right here, y' all world is what you make of it for some people. They have a lot harder pathway to try to make it good for them. So do your part. Make it better for everybody. We'll talk to you later.
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