Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'
First and foremost I am a teacher, I care. Caring is helping the players to develop
Empowerment is all about letting go so that others can get going.
He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.
One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.
If your role is to mentor somebody, what you're essentially doing is taking stock of what you've learned, the mistakes you've made, the successes you've had, and you kind of coalesce them and then you translate them back out.
Remember that not everyone is as strong as you are. Be mindful of human weakness, and of the fact that it may be more important, in the long run, to get many people taking steps in the right direction than to have fewer achieving the ideal.
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Leadership is liberating people to do what is required of them in the most effective and humane way possible.
The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.
