Leading and Managing, Same Difference right?

One of the most challenging aspects of working where I do is leading rather than managing. It's always simple to tell someone what to do, and use an authoritative role to enforce it. However, the question that arises when doing this is "will this person continue to be motivated to be successful?". The answer is no because the only reason "why" they have to continue on is because you're making them. True leadership is when a person can be empowered to continue on through their own will. With empowerment, people see their own why; money, advancement, self-progress and growth. Which ever one it may be they are able to carry out there task with enjoyment because they know "why" they're doing it. As a district manager there are always fresh faces each and every year, different emotions, motivations, and different "whys". The challenge is to find each person's "why" and help them get to the "how". If someone knows and understands "why" they're doing something then they can more often than not figure "how" they're going to do it and be successful at it.

10,000 Hour Rule

An expert is someone who has been interested in something for an extended period of time, and has worked in this specific interest for a substantial period of their life; this substantial period being about 10,ooo hours worth. Being an expert is always great, but it is most advantageous when you can be an expert and be "rewarded by the rest of society" because of the unique opportunity you are presented with to work really hard and seized it. On the flip side it can be bad to be an expert when there is no opportunity for the advancement of the expertise. For instance, Bill Gates and Bill Joy both had the opportunity to advance their expertise into a mjor software company and the internet itself because at that time there was no one else who had the extensive knowledge and drive to actually create something that was so out there and nonsecure.

There are many things that I would like to become an expert in, but so does everyone else. It is also pretty outlandish to think that I would be able to log the 10,000 hours necessary for everything that I would want to do to be an expert in them. However, my one true passion is golf and I am looking to become an expert in the entirety of the industry. One niche that I have realized about golf though is that it presents an interesting opportunity for networking as well. If this has shown me one thing it's that anyone from any business realm uses golf as a way of socializing. The opportunity that presents itself here is to gain as much knowledge about general business to combine something that I have a passion for, golf, and something that I have developed a great liking of, which is business. My end goal is to own and operate golf courses nationally and internationally. Once I have reached a point of success through expansion is when I will know that I achieved the expertise that I was looking to gain.

A New Change

Throughout the time that I was in the country (Friday-Wednesday of this past week), I was driving considerably slower than I normally would as well as with more patience. Now, I wasn't driving the speed limit but just about 5-6 miles over. It was an interesting experience to say the least as it proposed a different perception on time and how I would get to my destinations. You never realize how something as simple as driving slower and more patiently can affect the way that you think and look at society. Rather than seeing people as no good, in the way, and just snobs; you now see them as another person on the road trying to get to their destination the only way that they know. Speeding, going the speed limit, cautiously, aggressively or whatever way they drive. The change of perspective was nice, but not inspiring enough to completely slow all the way down.