Insight

Thursday morning this week (yesterday), I got up EARLY to take a friend to the airport.  So by the time I got home it was 5am and I was awake, so rather than climbing back in bed and catching a few hours of additional sleep, I worked on school work.  I gathered up my computer and books and headed downstairs, so as to not disturb the rest of my family.

Once down there, I sat down and found myself marveling at the silence.  Funny how odd silence becomes in such a busy world.  I sat down and wrote my journal entry for my leadership class and actually was able to contemplate some of the theories that we were studying.  This is what I came up with:

We spend so much time talking about leadership and different theories of leadership and the names of all of these people that everyone recognizes, but we forget that leadership doesn't start ONCE someone is famous, it starts now, today.  Honest leadership begins with you and I.  The world is like a still lake and you and I, we are the tiniest of raindrops, but even though we are small, we will make ripples on that lake that will continue to ripple.  We may be small, but we make an impact on and act as a leader to those around us every day.

See what a little bit of silence at 5am does for me?  Honestly though, for the first time in quite some time, I worked in a state of "flow" for three hours that morning.  It was the most exhilirating experience.  I hated to end it to go to work...  Oh, well, maybe I will have to get up earlier more often!