I am inspired this morning to accomplish much more with my day, my week, my month, my year and to measure the impact my work has had. I didn’t just wake up inspired, though. I was in a network of conversations this weekend that inspires me.
Larry and I just spent the weekend at the 9th annual Conference for Global Transformation in San Francisco, and we left the weekend registered for the 10th one in May 2010. Landmark Education’s Wisdom Division puts on these conferences, designed for people who are working on big dreams, goals, wishes, and plans for improving our planet, and many of these people are at work accomplishing these things and enrolling others to join them.
Larry and I each presented a poster on our respective dreams for the world. Mine is that leaders in the world — ALL leaders — lead with integrity and love and listen for people’s greatness. When that happens, these leaders foster trust, people want to follow them, and then those followers have the experience of being a part of an organization/company/family/community project that is greater than themselves. They experience themselves as contributors. Assuming a person’s values are aligned with what the organization is up to and how they go about accomplishing it, there will be great satisfaction.
I assert — and I’m not alone — that we all want to contribute, we want to be part of something greater than ourselves. George Bernard Shaw’s famous quote is one of my favorites on this topic, because he said it so well and I was reminded of it this weekend by one of the keynote speakers, Claudette C’Faison, the founder of the NY Youth at Risk program. She reminded us by quoting Shaw: “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
That says it all, for me. What about you? If you want to know more about the conference, or how I got there, please email me. pstambaugh@accountabilitypays.com. I am clear that if my dream is to become a reality, it has to move from dream state to action state, and it is THIS that I am moved to do, through my existing work as an executive coach and strategic management facilitator, and through other means not yet completely planned. Stay tuned!
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