Speaker 1: Helping leaders motivate their people to a higher level of
Speaker 1: performance through strong human relations, team building, and goal achieving.
Speaker 1: This is the seven Minute Leadership Podcast with your host
Speaker 1: Paul fella Aledo.
Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to the seven Minute Leadership Podcast.
Speaker 2: It's episode five thirty three today. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about a sentence that hits leaders in a deep place.
Speaker 2: It is a sentence that sounds simple on the surface,
Speaker 2: but when you say it out loud, it shakes something
Speaker 2: awake inside of you. My vision is much bigger than
Speaker 2: where I am.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Let me take you into a moment that every leader
Speaker 2: eventually faces. It usually comes late at night, when the
Speaker 2: world gets quiet. You look around at your life, your team,
Speaker 2: your responsibilities, your routines, and you know you're not done.
Speaker 2: You know you are not even close. This is not
Speaker 2: the finish line, This is barely the starting point. You
Speaker 2: can see a future so clear it almost feels like
Speaker 2: a memory. You can see the better version of your organization.
Speaker 2: You can see the team you want to build, You
Speaker 2: can see the life you want to live. That vision
Speaker 2: is so vivid that you almost get frustrated because your
Speaker 2: present reality feels like it's taking its time catching up.
Speaker 2: Every leader who has ever done anything worth remembering has
Speaker 2: stood in this exact spot. And here's the tough truth.
Speaker 2: When your vision is bigger than where you are right now,
Speaker 2: it will feel lonely. It will feel like no one
Speaker 2: else sees what you see. It will feel like you're
Speaker 2: talking about a future that sounds crazy to everyone else.
Speaker 2: But let me tell you something important. That doesn't mean
Speaker 2: your vision is wrong. It just means that you're early.
Speaker 2: Every breakthrough in history looked ridiculous the day before it happened.
Speaker 2: Your job is not to convince everyone today. Your job
Speaker 2: is to keep walking until the day your current reality
Speaker 2: finally realizes it has to rise up to match the
Speaker 2: size of your vision. Let me share a story that
Speaker 2: leaders rarely tell out loud. There is a moment when
Speaker 2: you look around at what you have built so far,
Speaker 2: and instead of feeling proud, you feel restless. You're grateful,
Speaker 2: but you're not satisfied, and that can feel confusing. People
Speaker 2: around you will say, but look at how far you've come,
Speaker 2: look at everything you've accomplished, and you do appreciate it,
Speaker 2: you really do. But deep down you know something they
Speaker 2: do not. You are supposed to go farther This is
Speaker 2: the part of leadership that most people never see. They
Speaker 2: see the titles, the results, the winds. They never see
Speaker 2: the private battles nights when you stare at the ceiling
Speaker 2: trying to figure out how to get from the life
Speaker 2: you have to the life you know you're built for.
Speaker 2: They never see the pressure you put on yourself to
Speaker 2: turn that vision into something real. And here's the emotional part.
Speaker 2: You have two choices. You can shrink your vision to
Speaker 2: match your current reality, or you can expand your reality
Speaker 2: to match your vision. Leaders choose the second one. Every
Speaker 2: single time, your vision is supposed to make you uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: It is supposed to feel slightly out of reach. It's
Speaker 2: supposed to stretch you. If your vision fits perfectly inside
Speaker 2: the life you have right now, it's not a vision.
Speaker 2: It's maintenance. There's something powerful that happens when you say
Speaker 2: the words, my vision is much bigger than where I
Speaker 2: am right now. You stop apologizing for wanting more, stop
Speaker 2: playing small so other people feel comfortable. You stop holding
Speaker 2: yourself back because you're afraid of outgrowing situations or people
Speaker 2: who were only meant to be part of your early chapters.
Speaker 2: And here's the truth. The version of you who set
Speaker 2: your original goals is not the same version standing here today.
Speaker 2: You have changed, you have learned, you have lived, and
Speaker 2: now your vision is expanding to match the leader that
Speaker 2: you're becoming. So let me ask you this. What is
Speaker 2: the vision you have been carrying around quietly because you're
Speaker 2: afraid people won't understand it. What is the thing you
Speaker 2: know you're supposed to build, but keep delaying until conditions
Speaker 2: feel perfect. What is the dream you keep pushing into
Speaker 2: the future because it feels too big for right now.
Speaker 2: Because here's your reminder. You don't build the future once
Speaker 2: the timing is perfect. You build it so the timing
Speaker 2: comes perfect. Leaders don't wait for permission. They don't wait
Speaker 2: for applause. They don't wait for guarantees. They move, They
Speaker 2: take steps, they learn as they go, and slowly, but surely,
Speaker 2: their presence starts shifting to match their future. Your vision
Speaker 2: is not too big. Your current environment is just too small,
Speaker 2: and it will grow the second you begin acting like
Speaker 2: the leader the future requires. If you're listening to this
Speaker 2: right now, I want you to remember something. You are
Speaker 2: not behind, You are not stuck. You are in the
Speaker 2: space between who you were and who you are becoming
Speaker 2: in this space is where the real work happens. It's
Speaker 2: where leaders are shaped. It's where your future starts tugging
Speaker 2: at your sleeve, saying it's time. So say it proudly.
Speaker 2: My vision is much bigger than where I am right now.
Speaker 2: Then go build toward it. One day you'll look back
Speaker 2: at this exact moment and you'll be so glad you
Speaker 2: didn't lower your vision just because your reality had not
Speaker 2: caught up yet. This has been the seven minute Leadership Podcast,
Speaker 2: and I thank you for listening.
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