Widen the Circle of Compassion With This Leadership Perspective
- sunstonechapel
- Oct 1
- 2 min read
The best minds with the biggest hearts from the past and present have one thing in common.
They have consistently named the importance of our interdependence with nature and with each other.
🌺 Those most mature in their leadership don't just understand this, they embody it.
When more of us make decisions with the greatest good in mind and pair it with one of my favorite concepts, “The Seven Generations Principle” (an Indigenous philosophy that considers seven generations into the future), we can nurture deep, meaningful change.
This doesn’t have to be a heavy lift.
We can start with ourselves and our own lives. Then our families, friends, employers, communities, and beyond.
The main challenge I’ve found is that sometimes (most often, women), we tend to exclude ourselves from “the greatest good” as if we don’t count in this equation.
You count. Women count. Even the “least of these”, count.
The greatest good absolutely includes us. All of us. With all our privilege or lack thereof. Sometimes this so called “Greatest Good” can feel terrible, uncomfortable, and offensive.
No one is promising that what’s best is going to be easy, pain-free, or fast.
On the contrary, doing the right thing rarely is.
I invite us to ask ourselves:
“𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘐 𝘥𝘰 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯…? 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺?”
Imagine your life, your family, your community - our world... if each of us took one action towards this, every week – forever?
That's a world I can be proud of. 😊 Who's with me? 💞
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