Hard

#Beingaleader means you have to handle hard things at times. Hard emotions. Hard decisions. Hard circumstances. Not that you should become hard. Just that you will be in hard situations. In fact, the hardness you find yourself in needs to be matched with the strength of the opposite emotion to be successful. Not soft. But hard into grace. Hard into empathy. Hard into what you want to accomplish.

#Beingaleader means that you often have to deal with hard emotions. Both yours and others. Do you feel angry at a situation? It’s hard not to react negatively back at others. It takes strength. It takes grace. It takes you being a hard person. Resolute in who you are and what you want to do.

#Beingaleader means that you often have to make hard decisions. Sometimes those decisions are not between right and wrong. Or good and bad. Sometimes those decisions are between bad and worse. Sometimes they are between short term pain over long term pain. Hard decisions to be sure. But you need to make them because that’s what it means to #Beingaleader.

#Beingaleader means that you often have to deal with hard circumstances. Created by you or someone else. Circumstances are what they are. Often totally out of your control. And in the midst of those circumstances you still need to be gracious towards others. Not reacting as the circumstances might dictate. Hard circumstances make a hard leader. Strong. And unbendable.

#Beingaleader means you have to handle hard things at times. Handle them with grace.