Eagled Leadership
John Wesley said, “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” You’ll never be more than you are right now if you don’t do something you’ve never done before. It’s not enough to talk about what you want to do. You have to be willing to courageously step out and do it. Take the leap from that comfortable nest of familiarity and fly into the unknown of possibility.
You’ll never be more than you are right now if you don’t do something you’ve never done before.
The bald eagle powerfully illustrates what it means to soar above and beyond the limits of the unknown. While other birds fly away from windy, even violent, conditions, the eagle meets the raging tempest head-on. Eagles fly into a storm, harness the power of the strong winds, and use this power to propel them above the turbulence and danger. We have to become like the eagle in order to overcome our fear of challenging conditions and the great unknown. Look beyond your self-imposed limits and find higher ground, just as the eagle does. If we spend all of our time focusing on what could go wrong, we will miss the potential to see what could go right. Fear and worry have the ability to magnify themselves into an insurmountable size, and we succumb to them far too willingly.
If we spend all of our time focusing on what could go wrong, we will miss the potential to see what could go right.
Author Earl Nightingale once compared worry to a fog that can keep us from seeing things as they really are. He said, “A dense fog covering seven city blocks, to a depth of 100 feet, is composed of something less than one glass of water.” You see, the fog of worry is an illusion that keeps us from our destiny.
We can live the overwhelmed life or
