Lead and Live by Example

"Bruce, deep down you may still be that great kid you used to be, but it's not who you are underneath, it's what you *do* that defines you."-Rachel Dawes, BATMAN BEGINS

Below is a Story shared to me by my friend Renzi. It is especially good for people who are teachers and who are in a leadership position.

Lets us be aware that if you are a teacher that you must live up to what you are teaching. If you are teaching about business see to it you have a business. If you are teaching about spirituality, relationship, exercise, diet or what ever it is, you have to embody it in every area of your life.

I've always believed in the power of Virtue and how it should be incorporated in every area of an individual.

There are a lot of speakers who are good at talking but fail to practice what they preach. There are some people, priest even that talks about love or relationship and even give advice about sex and marriage but themselves have not been married. Some talk about Godly things like being patient and humble but then they scold and reprimand people in public or wants to prove they are right and the other person is wrong. Even some people talk about unity and religion but their actions and language does not reflects it.

Watch what people do and how they live their life not what they say. Success is being consistent in your ideals in every area. That is absolute Authenticity.

Let's all read and learn.

Story of Virtue. A Spiritual Life of Living by Example.

"Stop arguing what a good man should be, be one."

"Lead by example not by resistance."

-Marcus Aurelius

‎"Why worry? Better to live until you die. I am a warrior; my way is action," he said. "I am a teacher; I teach by example. Someday you too may teach others as I have shown you then you'll understand that words are not enough; you too must teach by example, and only what you've realized through your own experience."

Then he told me a story:

A mother brought her young son to Mahatma Gandhi. She begged, "Please, Mahatma. Tell my son to stop eating sugar.'"

Gandhi paused, then said, "Bring your son back in two weeks."

Puzzled, the woman thanked him and said that she would do as he had asked.

Two weeks later, she returned with her son. Gandhi looked the :youngster in the eye and said, "Stop eating sugar."

Grateful but bewildered, the woman asked, "Why did you tell me to bring him back in two weeks? You could have told him the same thing then."

Gandhi replied, "Two weeks ago, 1 was eating sugar."

"Dan, embody what you teach, and teach only what you have embodied."

-excerpt from the book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior