As leaders and parents, we often believe we can’t show weakness. As leaders and parents, we believe we must remove all emotion to make decisions, handle conflict, and build trust. But if you are truly wanting your people to follow your lead, showing some emotion will actually forge a deeper convicted trusted relationship with your team or family more than being a stoic, stern-faced, emotionless human being. The simple fact is, that if what you do every day, your “why”, doesn’t make you vulnerable to cry sometimes than your “why” isn’t your why. When people find their “sweet spot”, which is the point of which their greatest talent and greatest passion intersect as Ken Coleman describes,

It’s 6 am, your bed feels like a warm, soft masterpiece of comfort. You have slept as hard as tungsten, not even a rock, but tungsten, one of the hardest metals found on earth. Your prior day was rigorous, almost never ending with a constant barrage of events, creating moments of agitation and stress to your mind, and today is just another day of potentially more the same. So that warm, soft masterpiece of comfort you are lying in is the last place you want to leave from, but your alarm clock is now beeping at you! UGH! Just 10 more minutes, Bam you hit it with a hatred of that piece of electronic plastic that needs to die! So back to sleep it is, and what feels like in 2 seconds, your dread

So we just got done yesterday with our vet reviews with two very awesome Rockstar millennial vets! And after one year for each of them, this is the earliest we have ever pushed on two new grads to learn about leadership. The learning curve a new veterinary grad is on is steep like climbing Mount Everest, especially the first year. But the awesome aspect of our culture at this point, with it clean, crisp, full of trust, known high expectations, full of kindness, clearly transparent on all aspects including they can all have access to my email or whatever they like because there is nothing to hide, a trust of wills soaring, with attitudes fully agreed upon it is “not about me” mentality but

It was a while back, but I was listening to an audiobook and it was discussing the tangible aspects of achievements. There are many awards given out today to adults, kids, the Hollywood crowd, Nashville crowd, sports figures, etc. There seem to be more and more awards, shows, and opportunities to receive a tangible award to honor the achievements of many different avenues in life. We also discuss the insight into the kid’s sports world and the effects of the previous generation of “everyone gets a trophy” aftermath. As we as parents are venturing down this road of kid’s sports, as I routinely talk on, we continue to learn, be a sponge of watching others, and gain wisdom and insight into