Visionary Leadership
It's called visionary leadership for a reason.
It's hard to believe something is real when we can't see it with our own eyes.
But new things - the aeroplane, the internet - can only ever be created when someone believes in it before they can see it. Someone has to be the first.
Just before my 11 year old daughter threw her hat in the ring to be a potential prefect/school captain for 2022, she said "I wonder if Jacinda Ardern was a school prefect when she was my age". I wondered who Jacinda Ardern's role models were when she was a little girl. Or did she just decide to go first?
A year ago I left my corporate accounting career of 20+ years to pursue my passion of coaching/speaking/writing. I was equal parts terrified and excited. No one else I knew personally had taken this risk. I was especially keen to find an example of someone else who had the same intimate experience of growing up in an immigrant family. Someone who had soaked up the same instinctive fears around financial security, the same beliefs about the importance of working incredibly hard to climb the ladder in one of the celebrated professions - medicine, law, finance, engineering, IT. I couldn't find it. Someone has to go first.
My 13 year old son is only five years away from being an adult. We tell him to pursue his dreams, to create a life of joy, meaning and purpose. I wanted to go first so I could lead the way.
On Halloween, our family shared spooky stories. But I don't want the kids to be scared of other-worldly things. I'm a highly intuitive being who infuses my coaching (and life) with energy work and tarot cards. I have only had amazing things happen when I tap into this guidance. So I also shared a few wonderful (and true) other-worldly stories of my own. My 9 year old son said he didn't believe it because he couldn't see it. "Fair enough," I said. "But have you ever seen electricity?". He hadn't. "Then how can you believe in it?"
"Because I know it works", he said.
Exactly. It works. And someone has to go first.
It's called visionary leadership for a reason.
