There is one particular section in the Robin Sharma book "The Leader Who Had No Title" that touched me the most that I’d like to share with the tribes: How do you want to reach your last day? Which path will you take?
Tommy Flinn, a 70 year old man, with his low position at work, and his disheveled appearance transformed Blake Davis, who was once a very pessimistic person to be the hero. Many values can be found in this book brought by Tommy’s words. The Leading Without Title philosophy which he taught Blake was the main principle of leadership: we can lead without the need to have a fixed position or title of any kind. One of many interesting illustrations in this book was when Tommy asked Blake to take a tablet of The 10 Human Regrets on it. One of them said: you reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it. But you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared. Along with the discipline lesson, he explained that the most successful people on earth first looked as nobody and had a small influence, but over the time, they would be recognised.
The 10 Human Regrets (As discussed by Robin Sharma in his book )THE LEADER WHO HAD NO TITLE. 10 regrets that we will have on our last day if we choose to follow the crowd rather that listening to ourselves.As the saying goes "only death fish follows the flow"
1.You reach your last day with the brilliant song that your life was meant to sing still silent within you.
2.You reach your last day without ever having experienced the natural power that inhabits you to do great work and achieve great things.
3.You reach your last day realizing that you never inspired anyone else by the example that you set.
4.You reach your last day full of pain at the realization that you never took any bold risks and so you never received any bright rewards.
5.You reach your last day understanding that you missed the opportunity to catch a glimpse of mastery because you bought into the lie that you had to be resigned to mediocrity.
6.You reach your last day and feel heart broken that you never learned the skill of transforming adversity into victory and lead into gold.
7.You reach your last day regretting that you forgot that work is about being radically helpful to others rather than being helpful only to yourself.
8.You reach your last day with the awareness that you ended up living the life that society trained you to want versus leading the life you truly wanted to have.
9.You reached your last day and awaken to the fact that you never realized your absolute best nor touched the special genius that you were built to become.
10.You reach your last day and discover you could have been a leader and left this world so much better than you found it. But you refused to accept that mission because you were just too scared. And so you failed. And wasted a life.
