MM#35--Leadership week #2--Lets Grab Our Chisels

In this special MOJO minute of Leadership week at the MOJO Academy, we explore character by digging into the quote from Leading an Inspired Life (affiliate link) by Jim Rohn.

Key points:

Recap of Day 1 of Leadership week
The Greek word for character means "to chisel."
Good character is the surest foundation to developing to be the leader we are capable of being.

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Transcript

Hello I'm David and welcome back to another MOJO minute--leadership style

That's right. This week we talking all about leadership.

Recap of Day One

We learned the best definition of leadership—Leadership is either effective or ineffective.

What is the foundation of great leadership?

If you ask the Leading researchers that question

Here’s what they say

the most important part of leadership is creditability

and more importantly one must have a rock solid foundation of trust with their people.

So that begs some questions:

Do people trust you?

Do you have creditability?

As leaders those are some heavy questions to ponder, arent they?

But lets go one level deeper.

Lets to get the uncomfortable level. Because that is where we grow, right?

Lets get out of comfortable zone, just a little bit!

Lets think about do we trust ourselves?

Do we have credibility with ourselves?

Do our actions speak louder than our words?

Do we have a solid foundation of values, virtues and ethics that we stand on in our daily lives?

In one question, what’s our character like?

Did you know the Greek word for character means to chisel?

Lets go to the quote

“Character comes from a Greek word meaning “to chisel,” or “the mark left by a chisel.” Of course, a chisel is a sharp steel tool used for making a sculpture out of a hard or difficult material, like granite or marble.”

This comes to us from Jim Rohn in Leading An inspired life.

I love that picture of “chiseling” and chipping away at a statue of granite or marble.

We can be our own Michaelangelo’s

Creating our great masterpiece of our character.

Lets go back to the book

“You’ve got to chisel your character out of the raw material of yourself just like a sculptor has to create a statue. The raw material is always there, and everything that happens to you, good or bad, is an opportunity for building your character.

Character is something that you have and something that you are.

Character is the person you are after you’ve chiseled and chiseled and have gotten past all the unnecessary material to what’s underneath.”

The Greeks understood that character was something permanent, it was a rock like foundation.

They saw life as a constant chipping away of the bad things of your statue to reveal a great masterpiece underneath.

So in todays MOJO minute, lets us grab our chisels and know that to lead others we first have to lead ourselves and to lead ourselves we cant kid ourselves.

We have to do the hard work on our imperfections, our blind spots, our weaknesses. We have to grow today and everyday.

We have to in a sense “chisel” on our marble statues knowing that it is a process. It doesnt happen overnight.

It happens daily. Moment to moment to moment.

So everyday let us, both you and I promise to ourselves with courage and humility to grab our chisels.

Lets us grab those chisels and go to work.

And go to work on ourselves.

Let us lead well today!

And be sure to come back tomorrow for another MOJO leadership minute

Lets go MOJO!