Making A Tough Decision

	When you make a tough decision, you don’t have to explain yourself. You don’t have to defend your position When you justify yourself you give away your power. When you justify yourself to people who are not receptive you throw yourself away. – Shar McBee Visit the Website: http://www.joyofleadership.com/ You can watch Shar McBee speak. Click here: www.JoyofLeadership.com/video Contact her: Shar@JoyofLeadership.com Subscribe				Help new people step up to leadership Increase Volunteers

How to Regain Your Good Name

	Don’t let a seed of humiliation grow into a sea of slime. Stop it when it is little. In Joy of Leadership we talk about giving a seed instead of the whole tree because a seed will grow. It is similar when we have lost face. To regain your position of authority (when you actually feel like quitting) you don’t have to strive in a big way to regain your good name. Be happy with small gains at first. Accept your reverses and go back to work patiently and conscientiously. If you quit, you cut down the tree. If you can remain conscientious, all will be forgotten. Your influence will grow again and you’ll regain your good name. – Shar Bee Visit the Website: http://www.joyofleadership.com/ You can watch Shar McBee speak. Click here: www.JoyofLeadership.com/video Contact her: Shar@JoyofLeadership.com Subscribe				Help new people step up to leadership Increase Volunteers

Mud on a Diamond

	This week, I submitted two chapters of my new book for review by my writers group. Nine people were positive. One sliced it to smithereens. The criticism felt like salt in a wound. She said it was shallow. She compared it to gravy, without the meat. “Stretched a bit thin,” she proclaimed. I was still hurting the next day. Then I remembered some advice that I had once received. It was a time when I had engaged a singer to perform at an event I was organizing. I thought the singer had the voice of an angel but a few people criticized him harshly. The ridicule hurt until I received this advice, which put it into perspective – You can throw mud on a diamond, but it is still a diamond. – Shar McBee Visit the Website: http://www.joyofleadership.com/ You can watch Shar McBee speak. Click here: www.JoyofLeadership.com/video Contact her: Shar@JoyofLeadership.com Subscribe				Help new people step up to leadership Increase Volunteers

Never Give Up

	I worked with a mean man. No one escaped his nastiness. I assumed he didn’t care what people thought of him. But I was wrong. All people want to be liked and well remembered. One day he broke down and cried. Afterwards, he changed. He actually became kind. He taught me a wonderful lesson: Never give up on someone’s ability to return to his better nature. – Shar McBee Visit the Website: http://www.joyofleadership.com/ You can watch Shar McBee speak. Click here: www.JoyofLeadership.com/video Contact her: Shar@JoyofLeadership.com Subscribe				Help new people step up to leadership Increase Volunteers