Got feelings? Who me? What are feelings? Isn't this a bit "soft" of a topic? I ---- Got to-do's.... Got strategies... Got transactions... Got hills to climb... What do feelings got to do with it? ...... OK - POSSIBLY ALMOST EVERYTHING! ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A LEADER! However....
One thing I didn't learn at home: How to understand my own feelings. Did you?
One thing I didn't learn at church: How to understand my feelings. Did you?
One thing I didn't learn in college: How to understand my own feelings. Did you?
One thing I didn't learn in grad school (seminary even!): How to understand my own feelings. Did you?
One thing I didn't learn before getting married: How to understand my own feelings. Did you?
In his book, Mentoring Leaders, Carson Pue states, "My observation is that the very best leaders have a very clear grasp of how they are feeling at any given moment."
Just think about the bad leaders that you know... the bad managers... the bad parents even. What tends to be missing? Healthy feeling, right? They're not aware! They don't "get" that www.JeffCaliguire.com
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