"Notes" of An Elder

Nothing in life is of any value unless it is shared with others.

"Notes" of An Elder is a depository of pertinent information, knowledge and wisdom. Available weekly will be an elder's "thinking menu" for your use. Enjoy this bounty.

• The best leaders are students first and teachers second.

• We do not have to love. We choose to love.

• Leadership is primarily about service.

• Each of us is inherently conflicted.

• Help people do more than they believe they are capable of.

• Everything worth doing carries a measure of risk.

• Don’t lead too far ahead of the parade.

• Patience is increasingly rare because we want more, faster with less effort and more pleasure.

• “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” ― F. M. Alexander

• Many meetings end up in a contest of my idea is better than yours.

Book Power

“Books are meat and medicineand flame and flight and flower,steel, stitch, and cloud and clout,and drumbeats in the air.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

• Allow everyone the opportunity to tell their own truth.

• Many questions arrive with a hidden agenda.

• Being bold means breaking the limits of traditional thinking or actions.

• This is a rehab year for me. Rehab my thinking, attitude, and behavior.

• Look at the familiar with fresh eyes.

• Happy Hour: What about the other twenty three hours?

• Be a creative trespasser.

• “Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.” ― Sakyong Mipham

• Find extraordinary ideas in ordinary places.

• People don’t come to work to be average.

Magic Question

What am I to do with all of this life?