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Often I see leaders who are just going through the motions, Sheepwalking, following the well-worn cow paths, not making the choice to lead. In a nutshell many leaders lack passion for a vision. Consider the lesson in the following poem…
The Lesson of the Moth
By Don Marquis, Archy and Methitabel
I was talking to a moth
The other evening
He was trying to break into
An electric light bulb
An fry himself on the wires
Why do you fellows
Pull this stunt I asked him
Because it is the conventional
Thing for moths or why
If that had been an uncovered
Candle instead of an electric
Light bulb you would
Now be a small unsightly cinder
Have you no sense
Plenty of it he answered
But at times we get tired
Of using it
We get bored with the routine
And crave beauty
And excitement
Fire is beautiful
And we know that if we get
Too close it will kill us
What does that matter
It is better to be happy
For a moment
And be burned with beauty
Than live a long time
And be bored all the while
So we wad all our life up
Into one little role
And then we shoot the roll
That what life is for
It is better to be part of beauty
For one instant then cease to
Exist than to exist forever
And never be a part of beauty
Our attitude toward life
Is come easy and go easy
We are like human beings
Used to be before they became
Too civilised to enjoy themselves
And before I could argue him
Out of his philosophy
On a patent cigar lighter
I do not agree with him
Myself I would rather have
Half the happiness and twice
The longevity
But at the same time I wish
There was something I wanted
As badly as he wanted to fry himself
Great leaders are always ignited by great passion.
- What is your passion?
- What are you striving to achieve?
- How badly do you want it?
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