I like Baruch's perspective that the opportunity for greatness is always within our reach.
There's always kindness we can do for a friend or family. There's art that can be drawn, painted, or played for our own fulfillment, or maybe to make the day better for a small audience.
Even things like this blog, Tom, you help reveal truths about the world that we can use to improve ourselves and, if we're fortunate, help the lives of people around us.
I'm going to miss it when you've exhausted all the articles in this particular AA Grapevine series by Greenleaf. It's been a great few weeks of wisdom from this blog and Robert Greenleaf!
Chris,
You touched on what I really like about Robert Greenleaf and his writings on servant-leadership, that it is not something just for management, not something just for who we typically think of as leaders, not something just for corporate executives, but it is something that exists in the heart of everyone. And when we tap into it, it has the power to really make our lives meaningful.
And speaking of meaningful life, I pulled my copy of "Man's Search for Meaning" off the shelf and started reading it on the bus this morning and then again in the afternoon. This afternoon a woman I chat with occasionally on the bus mentioned that she saw me reading the book in the morning and "googled" the name when she got to work. She said it looked like an interesting book, so we talked about it briefly. It's this kind of service - your mentioning the book in one of your comments, my picking it up as a result and reading it and someone else seeing it and maybe reading it - that really points out the power of servant-leadership. Its a power that isn't about force, but a power of attraction.
So thanks for the inspiration and how you might have brought some meaning from Viktor Frankle to a woman on a bus in Minnesota (well at least to a man on a bus in Minnesota).
Good deal on the Frankl reading. See especially portions of Frankl's book that reflect on the Greenleaf ideas in your July 23 post on finding "What are we called to do?"
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