#BeMoreYou — A tree gives glory to god by being a tree

As I write this, Wednesday, I had planned to spend much of the day writing multiple posts for this site for the coming days. However, something slowed me down, and it was a quote shared with me on Monday this week during a highly nourishing meeting with Julian Summerhayes. That quote was:

A tree gives glory to god by being a tree

Thomas Merton, from his book “New Seeds of Contemplation”

On Tuesday this week, I then had David McLean as my guest on the weekly #WhatComesNext.Live show, where we mused on, among other things, self-leadership and I mentioned the distilled wisdom of my mentor Ed Percival, captured in three words and honoured in the page on this website that highlights my top four qualities of #OpenLeadership, those words being #BeMoreYou.

So, today much contemplation, then I found myself crystallising that into a thought on leadership.

Today I saw Ben Brabyn, leader of the burgeoning #GenieShares movement, post this post:

I then replied:

Feels stunning simple… be a good human, yet it seems an endless quest to find leaders…