One Last Thing

My colleague and friend David Chinsky published this in his new newsletter. Check out his site, David Chinsky and Associates and consider subscribing to his newsletter. It’s very well done!

“I sincerely wish that you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, organizing it, and following it through to completion, and then having it be magnificently successful. I also hope you’ll go through the same process and have something totally ‘bomb out.’

I wish that you could achieve some great good for mankind, but have nobody know about it except you.

I wish you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing your life.

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it’s all worthwhile.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you a reason for living and a purpose for life.

I wish for you the worst kind of criticism for everything you do, because that makes you fight beyond what you normally would.

I wish for you the experience of leadership.”

Adapted from Earl Reum, Lifelines for Leaders, “A Wish for Leaders”