30 Days of Meditation – Leadership & Faith

My journey of meditation requires me to focus in on topics. The next two topics went well, one was new, one was one I failed at earlier in the journey. I will be focusing on Leadership and Faith for the second time. Here are my experiences.

Leadership

As always once I calmed myself I say the focal word in my thoughts and see what hits me. This session it was “Lead whenever possible. There can never be too many leaders”.

If I lead and somebody follows me, what do I do with them, “Make sure your footprints are wide. They follow in them”. This seemed clear, lead with clarity and direction so others understand your path forward.

My issue with the opening thought was that there could not be too many leaders. If everyone was leading are there no followers anymore, “No, you lead and you follow”. When do I lead then, “Where you excel”. Sometimes you fail before you excel, “You follow then you lead, or it is unique”. This seems to map to a learning path and it wants us to improve into leadership in topics. “You lead where you excel, you follow where you falter”.

How do I know what to lead in exactly, “Life, lead in everything”. Wouldn’t there be too many leaders, “Excel in life, or watch it waste away”. That basically stopped me in my tracks and made it all make sense. You are to attack life and attempt to improve in all directions and lead where you are good at something. It left me with a simple thought, “Lead with Kindness”.

Faith

The first attempt at focusing on Faith was not successful and had its issues. So I decided to try it again and see if I get a real dialog this time around. I calmed myself and focused on the word Faith. “Requires time, faith that something will, was, or is”.

That seemed logical and I was glad I was on track this time. From there it went a direction I did not expect. “Men need faith, women don’t” I let this one go for now because it confused me. Can people with faith make something true, “To some degree faith controls outcome”.

Now I was ready to ask about the men thing. You said Men need faith, “They plan constantly”. Are plans good, “The winds break them”. Why do women not need faith, “They work on impulse”. Is a man without faith bad, “Mostly, yes”.

From here is started to talk about men and women. I assume here it is talking about men, “Faith drives attraction, more faith is more attraction”. It is unclear about what the faith is in, I get the feeling it is confidence in plans and future. “If you have more faith, you attract more women”. I asked why does faith attract more women, “Women feed off men’s faith. It is foundation, rock. Women help men stay in the moment, it is written this way”.

I was then curios in the final moments of my session if all races, even non-human are like this, “Yes and no, they all have deferring faith varieties, sometimes 3”

Thoughts

I was pleased with these two sessions and Faith came through the second time around. Leadership explained to lead in directions where you have talent and knowledge. Faith explained something about men and women I would never have thought about before. What are your thoughts on too many leaders or Men needing faith and women being attracted to it?

A Plan to Herd Cats

I do get frustrated with plans.  They are nice to have, don’t get me wrong, but in my experience if you are going to be successful your plan is simply what will never happen.  You can spend a lot of time coming up with a plan and have everything change by the end.  So what was that plan worth?

The only thing that is of true worth is the planning sessions.  Those times where you and your team are sitting there thinking intently about your project to devise the plan is the true worth.  Seriously, how often do your plans actually work the way they were designed?

If you are honest there, I truly believe, it is 0%.  So your plans never work.  So their worth, after the planning session, is 0.  Should you make plans?  Yes, should you stick to the plans, probably not.  See I really believe that the successful people are not great planners, they are great reactors.  They are wonderful at changing their plans and understanding their projects.

That is what that planning session gives you and your team, a better understanding of your project today, and your mindset for goals in the future.  Having a plan to get to those goals is like herding cats.  It can be fun, but in the end you are just chasing cats.  So change the mindset of your planning sessions to understanding sessions, your plans will fail, but your project doesn’t have to.