With a birthday on 2/22/2020 you’d think I have some divine spiritual message, not today, haha. I’ll take your prayers though! I do feel blessed, more blessed than I have ever felt in a long time. It almost feels surreal.
What have I learned this year? The mind is a terrible thing to waste, but it’s the hardest thing to beat. Most of the time we blame failure or shortcomings on external things. We Christians love to blame the devil. But there’s no devil, like ego. This is the year I learned my ego was my worst enemy.
My ego kept me from healing relationships. My ego kept me from creating new ones. My ego kept me from creating. My ego kept me from minimizing. Meditation is called a practice because in order to control the ego we need to keep doing it.
Last night I had the opportunity to sit in a room with Leonard Lauder, the Billionaire chairman and former CEO of Estée Lauder. He gave me and every other woman in the room (I was the only man), a masterclass on leadership.
Most of his lessons centered on letting go of the ego. To be a great leader you have to marry your strengths and divorce your ego. Sure you’re the CEO but you don’t have the right to tell someone what they’re doing wrong if you never spent the time to acknowledge first what they have done right. Sure you’re the CEO but if you don’t find a way to acknowledge and show people you appreciate them, you won’t have much of an organization for long. Sure you’re paying people, but they’ll only stay if you offer them something money can’t buy.
I’m looking forward to a life-changing year of 34. Mostly because it will be my most egoless year yet.
Much love. God bless.
Ps: My new book “Make a Decision and Live With It” will be out this Christmas
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