Intersections with George Bennett(SA)

The voices in your head telling you to give up, the fear of failure because of how failure is perceived this why many don't succeed.

Life provides very little guarantees, the probability for success when you come from nothing is very low, because you need a network of people around you to make things happen, now you might have been that person that everyone comes to for support and you feel tired and exhausted because of that, know this you are very lucky to have survived such an experience where you where stretched because now you know what you are capable of and that is the ultimate realization, many don't map out how they life should be because they live under some determination set by others. Free yourself and life will offer you many gifts that will serve you

The idea of being a individual is perhaps what creates much suffering for many. In our social spaces we gravitate often towards people who talk, walk and behave like us. We isolate, unfriend and unlike people who don't view the world the same way we do, we become indeferent to others and put up walls when others challenge our point of view, instead of learning to understand.

In the workplace, regardless of role and position things go wrong, people mis communicate and trouble comes. When we fail to communicate our expectations the outcome is 100% guaranteed, we do not control the interpretation of other people, we only control ourselves, it's important to begin with safety, are you aware of your own bias, can you keep your ego in check

It's very easy to critize people who are looking for opportunities to elevate themselves, we tend to say if you just accept that who you are is set in stone, stop wanting to change everything around you. This is a mistake and will increase suffering because what we all need is support, understanding and respect. Yes we can pull ourselves up but we need help to get to that point, we don't always recover from trauma but we learn to live with it

Often when people go through difficult times it's because they feel helpless in their situation, unable to do anything about it. In perfection is what we should make space for because perfection is a difficult goal to achieve. Perfection is subjective and can change all the time, it is in many cases an impossible standard to live by and often sucks out the joy from our lives.

Leadership is by far the greatest privelege any person can experience. Working together in a team with others on a achieving a goal.

There is however the trap of self entitlement and self serving that all leaders fall into, when you stop listening and learning. When you become the keeper of all knowledge and therefore closed to input from others.

This has lead to catastrophic results in many sectors where you can ill afford mistakes.

Imagine not listening to a nursing staff member when checking a patient's chart and conducting a surgery when the patient required no treatment of that nature.

Our ego get's the best of us because we rely on it for our innovation, however we must begin a process where we can disable the ego and not be tempted to jump into the sea of our emotions and commit ourselves to regrettable behavior.

This is how we impact society make change that last beyond our tenure.

Many of us live in our past or present, we hang on to the good memories and we are taurmented by what did not go well.At some point we must graduate the fear and live thru knowing that God opened the door to life, he loves you and will ultimately come to collect what belongs to him

Success is often portrayed as a picture perfect life, where everyone agrees and life is joyful.The reality is success is about sacrifice, being willing to believe in a idea even when no one believes it or support it. It's about staying committed when it's hard to stay committed. It's about working on yourself despite the absence of opperrtunity.

Why is there so much anger in the world, why is it so easy to move to violence when disagreements happen. Why do people choose to be in different instead of together.