Leaders are bold enough to interfere in the lives of others

Do you remember studying the physicist Sir Isaac Newton in school? His first Law of Motion stated, "An object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an outside force."

Objects (and you and I are "objects") tend to keep on doing what they're doing. In fact, it's the natural tendency of objects and people to resist changes in their state of motion. This tendency to resist changes in their state of motion is described as "inertia."

What has been the direction of your business? If your business continues on its current path for a year will you be happy? What has been the direction of your family life? Will you be satisfied if it maintains its current course for another year?

Leaders are the force in other people's lives that alter the direction that life is taking. A positive leader interferes in other people's lives and causes them to do what they otherwise would not do toward what is important to them.

That's service. Are you bold enough to interfere?

Whose life can you impact this week by finding out what they want and then be bold enough to cause them to do what they would not have done on their own? Commit to doing that.

"None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody . . . bent down and helped us." - Thurgood Marshall