Month: February 2017

The best in the world…Will+Humility

The best in the world.

The best meaning, the best. Pretty simple.

The world meaning, whatever “world” that may be. The actual entire world, your family, your friend group, your team…

The best in the world have humility and will at their core.

Willpower to push and say, “I made this.” To show RESILIENCE and GRIT in the face of struggle.

To get back up and continue or at times, change direction.

Will alone, will accomplish but impact is magnified when humility is paired.

When the purpose of the will is not about the individual but about the bigger picture, the team, the client, the product.

When will is driven out of an ambition for the institution, not ourselves.

Where can you have more resolve and draw out a strong will?

When you find it, ensure it is befriended by humility.

If you must…

I’m searching for more humility in my life. This poem captures beautiful images of humility. It is not necessarily weak. When you see humility like this, you know.

If you must be heard, let it be like the babbling brook,
laughing over the rocks.

If you must be seen, let it be like sunlight
giving warmth and comfort to all.

If you must be acknowledged, let it be as the eyes
behold the skies in all their glory.

If you must lead, let it be like the wind and all its unshackled direction.

If you must learn, let it be like breathing,
the natural flow of in and out,
and done without thinking.

If you must teach, let it be like the water,
deep and flowing,
for your words are like pebbles in a pond,
the ripples they cause spread out in all directions,
and what you give out eventually returns.

If you must know, let it be flowing and growing.

And above all, if you must:
shine!

-Kerry Hillcoat

Need of Humility

“You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you don’t mind who gets the credit.”-Harry S. Truman

What are you doing that laughs in the face of humility? When do you, deep down, laugh at humility? Mock it for its weakness and dismiss it as for only ‘soft’ people?

For me when I do those things, failure or disappointment are right behind.

Humility is a transcendent quality. It requires us to work at it but in some instances, there’s nothing we can do to develop it. It is a characteristic of the titans of our age. It is not soft by any means but rigorous and defining. When paired with a strong will, it is unstoppable and proven to yield success.

Reflect on what you can do to lean into, more humbleness. Not that there’s any discipline we enact to develop humility but the closer we get to it, the more contagious it is.