Graduation - The Future Of Leadership Is Back

"Can you be the change you want to see in the world?"

~Mahatma Gandhi

Thank God for graduations. This is one of those seasons of life when we catch a glimpse of the future. Young men and women celebrating their achievements with family and friends and commencement addresses compel graduates to look into their future with faith, hope, love and dreams. Deepak Chopra has one of the more poignant addresses for 2013. (link below)

With heightened emotions, all are building expectations for the future with recently acquired knowledge that pales in comparison to the development of one's character and personal values empowered by faith, hope, love and dreams. These are the essential elements of being a sustainable leader. Gaining the knowledge, tested time and again, has resulted in a diploma that has become the cornerstone of one's future.

Everyone's diploma says all have learned the basics. There may be some minor differences in grade point averages, but what becomes more and more critically important to propel one forward into their desired future...
is keeping one's faith, hope, love and dreams fully engaged in order to create and innovate a future of immense possibilities.

The quality of the life to be built, like any building, depends upon knowing the basics of construction, but what really makes the difference is the level of engagement and attention to the daily, boring details of life. Two identical homes stand side by side. Inside one is trashed and dirty while the other is clean and organized. Which one has the higher value in the eyes of a buyer?

A hearty congratulations and "hip, hip hurrah" to all those who have completed this important phase of life. May you quickly learn the real value of education has been learning how to learn. Along this educational journey, you have been presented opportunities to develop your character and personal values. While your knowledge may be tested, the real tests to come will be upon your character and values and how fully you maintain your faith, hope, love and dreams.

These are the tests that mold and form individuals into leaders and with the right heart and love become future servant leaders. It all becomes a matter of how fully one is willing to engage into building the future. Deepak reveals how the wisdom to transform oneself, first, will be what transforms the world. 

+Deepak Chopra "The Future of Leadership."  Excerpt: "The gift of life, your own self-consciousness, is your key to inner transformation and wisdom, and that in turn is how you will transform the world. Today, I ask you to acknowledge that you are the world and that your transformation of consciousness will be the future of the world. This self-transformation is the wisdom for our planet's survival."

Be wise in all you think, say and do. The future is back and the planet's existence depends upon you...

~ Alan Goldsberry, Author and CEO of ZFactor Group Publishing

ZFactor blog explores and discusses a variety of techniques, tools and discoveries by successful people that will assist others to achieve greater personal and professional success. ZFactor is a proprietary coaching methodology based upon the premise that successful people think and act differently. The ZFactor methodology is proven to accelerate a person's ability to think and act differently.