"Notes" of An Elder

Managing yourself is more important than managing others.

January 01, 2021

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.

  • Everyone wins when there is learning, growing, and truth.

  • “A child must learn the difference between hot and cold to keep from getting hurt and the difference between right and wrong to keep from hurting others.” — Parker J. Palmer

  • The truth will always be subject to certainty.

  • What will "free" us will be the truth.

  • Silence is golden. Often silence is a tactic used to get more information from the other party. Silence is difficult for everyone to handle.

  • Challenge: To listen without judgment, we must be submissive to everything, open and listen.

  • Most of us will achieve genuine intimacy with only a handful of people in a lifetime.

Exemplary Leadership

  • Show the Way

  • Inspire Share Vision

  • Challenge the Process

  • Enable Others to Act

  • Encourage the Heart

  • Listen and Adjust

  • Everything we see depends on where we stand.

  • Negative lessons can be as valuable as positive ones.

  • Managing yourself is more important than managing others.

  • Listening brings credence to the conversation.

  • People's Expectations: Why carry things that don't belong to you?

  • “The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.” — Henry Miller

  • Life's surprises aren't surprising. We just weren't paying attention to the right things.

  • Never close our lives to new ideas.

Magic Question

How much will this cost?

P.S. Searching for a book recommendation? Our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World) by Cal Newport. This book is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. Author and professor Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill.

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