COACHING TIP: Which Leadership Path Will You Take?

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One of the most profound lessons of leadership I've ever come across was the concept of The 10 Human Regrets and the 10 Human Victories from the book The Leader Who Had No Title by Robin Sharma. The book centers on how we as leaders can help facilitate a shift in modern society from self-centeredness to acting out of true service to others.

Go through your day-to-day life, whether it be in your real estate business or in your personal life, with these in mind. It inspires me to think about how my life could be in those later years, and to think that at the end I'll have given everything I had to everyone in my life at all times. Each of the following lists are worth printing out and reading once a day. Each one strikes a different chord within me, and you can see from the video that even reading them out loud gets me emotional. 

The 10 Human Regrets

1. You reach your last day with the brilliant song your life was meant to sing still silent within you.
2. You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things.
3. You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example that you set.
4. You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks, and so you never received any bright rewards.
5. You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunity to catch a glimpse of mastery because you bought into the lie that you had to be resigned to mediocrity.
6. You reach your last day and feel heartbroken that you never learned the skill of transforming adversity into victory, and lead into gold.
7. You reach your last day regretting that you forgot that work is about being radically helpful to others rather than being helpful only to yourself.
8. You reach your last day with the awareness that you ended up living the life that society trained you to want versus leading the life you truly wanted to have.
9. You reach your last day and awaken to the fact that you never realized your absolute best, nor touched the special genius that you were built to become.
10. You reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it; but you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared…and so you failed, and wasted a life.

The 10 Human Victories

1. You reach your end full of happiness and fulfillment on realizing that you are all used up—having spent the fullness of your talents, the biggest of your resources, and the best of your potential doing great work and leading a rare-air life.
2. You reach your end knowing that you played at a standard of concentrated excellence and held yourself to the most impeccable standards in each thing that you did.
3. You reach your end in noisy celebration for having the boldness of spirit to have regularly confronted your largest fears and realized your highest visions.
4. You reach your end and recognize that you became a person who built people up versus one who tore people down.
5. You reach your end with the understanding that while your journey may have not always been a smooth one, whenever you got knocked down you instantly got back up– and at all times, never suffered from any loss of optimism.
6. You reach your end and bask in the staggering glory of your phenomenal achievements along the rich value you have contributed to the lives of the people you were lucky to serve.
7. You reach your end and adore the strong, ethical, inspirational and empathetic person you grew into.
8. You reach your end and you realize that you were a genuine innovator who blazed new trails instead of following old roads.
9. You reach your end surrounded with teammates who call you a rock-star, friends who say you’re a hero, and loved ones that call you a legend.
10. You reach your end as a true Leader Without a Title, knowing that the great deeds you did will endure long after your death and that you life stands as a model of possibility.