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Question: How do great leaders rise to the highest positions?

Answer: They are able to better operate at levels higher than the rest of their contemporaries.

How did they get that way? Some had a bit of talent to aid them, but all of them worked for it. Brian Tracy contends, “Your outer world of results will always correspond to your inner world of preparation.”

One of Tracy’s favorite lines of poetry is from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

“Those heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night“

The desire for quick fixes abounds in today’s world. Everyone wants the most “bang” for the least amount of work. Carmine Coyote refers to this as “The perils of seeking success “on the cheap.”

Yes, one can have a marginal amount of short-term success with quick fixes. But it is not sustainable long term. You are fooling yourself to think that the burden is not shifted somewhere else. Long-term accomplishment is achieved through WORK and EFFORT.

The development of leadership capacities requires that one work on the inner aspects necessary to operate at higher and higher levels.

“What happens around us or what happens between us is never as important as what happens within us.” Diane Dreher

Our performance, results, profits, level of expertise, are all a reflection of the level of development inside ourselves. We have improved our inner abilities to the point where we can now realize increased outcomes.

[Part II will address the relationship between inner work and outer performances...]

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