Leaders: Scare thyself with New Year's Resolutions

Tom Peters writes about Raw Meat for Resolutions. He may riff on it later; may not. Either way he quotes Eleanor Roosevelt saying Do one thing every day that scares you.

As a leader of a rabid group of creative control freaks, aka, a small entrepreneurial firm, I/we need no special effort to do something that scares me/us. Add to that external impetus, my own internal impetus towards worrying and thinking, stir and repeat and I could add just one word to Mrs. Eleanor's quote and make the day easier for me and most other leaders of any sized business these days.  Do JUST one thing every day that scares you. JUST one. Man my day would be so easy.

The scariest thing I did today was to tell a friend, fellow blogger, CUSTOMER and soon-to-be book publisher that I don't want to be included in his book, at least as far as he edited my original text.  I'm not a proponent of biting the hand that feeds you, looking a gift horse in the mouth, etc. And his or his editor's smithing of my quote was neither obscene nor completely inaccurate. But it was changed so much it wasn't my voice. I didn't want my name attributed to it.

Ops like this come as the result of hard work, many hours and days and weeks of hard work. So does the relationship. But...it wasn't my voice. I hope he understands.  I think he will. I'm nervous, though.

That's just the issue handled in the past half-hour. There were ones nearly every hour.

Shoot, Mrs. Eleanor, I've got extra if anyone needs something to scare 'em. 

Tip of the bald spot to Management Craft and her post titled Do you scare yourself?  (Why yes, ma'am, I do. Thank you for askin'. )