New Years Eve _ Eye Opener!
Ten years ago I challenged a small group of individuals I was with by thanking them for the success they had contributed to in making the little company we had founded into an organisation that was featured on the cover of Fortune 500 Magazine. I went around the table and each of the thirty I named by name and thanked them for the contributions they made that gave us the astounding successes. I praised them for their contributions and left myself for last, quoting Sir Winston Churchill, whom I will paraphrase here. He said, when speaking about WWII, ‘…that the rest of the free world had been the lion and that he had been glad to have been called upon to give the roar.” I said that as CEO it was my duty to spread the thanks, for without them, I was just one. With them as a whole, WE had made fortune magazine’s highest honours, to be featured on the cover. I literally went on my computer and created a false cover for my own edition of the fortune magazine to make it real for them in the presentation. Afterwards, when this presentation was reviewed, I was told I was an Anthony Robbins. Well, him I am not physically, though to be compared to someone who at the time was a mentor of inspiration, really cheered me on.
Now, Ten years later, I now realise that this is the sort of wisdom every CEO, every member of the company needs to have and to live, to really enjoy life, because isn’t that what it is all about in the end anyway? I am looking backwards from this time a year from now and thanking every one of you reading this blog, as you reflect on it, for having made me into a better person than I was when it was originally written. Each one of you, in your unique way, made me and the world a better place to be in. You continue to make it better every day, so thank you! Yes, It deserves saying again, Thank You!
Then, in the spirit of enjoyment, I am wishing you a happy 2011, and a happy 2010. 2009 was wonderful, 2010 was even better. Let’s go out there and make 2011 fantastic, by making every day fantastic by being fully involved with what our dreams are. Live them and they will be!
