New Year's Walk

Fellow Labourers-

Choose your path. According to W. Steven "Essentially there are two actions in life: Performances and excuses. Make a decision as to which you will accept from yourself-and those you manage/lead. Two distinct and entirely different attitudinal approaches exist, based on these actions, and only one manages successfully. Internalists, those who are performance oriented, accept personal accountability for their actions, successes and failures. They know that if they feel unhappy with their results, they have only to look into a mirror to stare the culprit straight in the eye. Others refuse to accept their responsibility for their position in life and hide behind excuses. Because they constantly blame some external source, condition,or other people for their personal failures, we'll call them externalists."


Here the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson from a piece called "Self-Reliance". "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."

One of my New year's walk is to choose wisely, especially those with whom I spend my time. John C. Maxwell says "Those closest to the leader will determine the level of success for that leader." Niccolo Machiavelli said, "The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." And, Andrew Carnegie said, "It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone."

How will you walk?

Pax Vobiscum

Robert Stewart