Leaders Don’t Push, They Lead!

Leaders are unique people. Most people aren’t leaders. The general concept of a leader for most people probably centers around their boss. While their boss may be a leader, they are usually not more than just managers. Managers are people who have a task to perform and everything is motivated by making sure they reach a goal. Leaders don’t function that way. Having vision is not the same as having goals. Vision is about the hope of something that may happen in the future. Goals are milestones that are set that must be meet or fail.

People who encourage you to set goals are not leading you anywhere. They are trying to help you manage your life. To often that management is motivated by fear, the fear of failure. Leaders however share a vision of the future with you. If you believe in that future you have a chance to pursue it. That future may include greater relationship with your spouse or children. It may be a future full of possibilities. But what a leader won’t do is push you into that future. Their value is not measured in whether or not that future actually takes place exactly the way you see it, but that in the end the hope that future represented to you is actually fulfilled.