Website design By BotEap.com“Despite all the cruelty and hardships in our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions are important and can bend history in the direction of justice.” – Barack Obama, Nobel Conference, December 10, 2009

Website design By BotEap.comIn every situation, you have the choice of being a leader or a follower by the way you act or react. Throughout history, men and women of great character have chosen to uphold ideals that exceed their own interests. Among them have been: Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, Aung San Su Chi, Martin Luther King Jr, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Viktor Frankl and Muhammad Ali.

Website design By BotEap.comWhat is common to all these leaders is a base of universal values ​​such as; equality, freedom, justice, respect for life; and the willingness to act in support of these values. They are certainly honorable leaders.

Website design By BotEap.comMy question to you is this: Are you an honorable leader who acts courageously according to your ideals?

Website design By BotEap.comIf so, are you up to the challenge? And if not, where to start?

Website design By BotEap.comThe most basic foundation of character, and the first test for an honorable leader, is a deep sense of self-honor. Integrity is an alignment between what you believe, what you say, and what you do. In other words, you can’t fake it. Therefore, a requirement of integrity is to know what your beliefs are and I would add: what is your purpose in life.

Website design By BotEap.comSo the first step to becoming an honorable leader is taking the time to clarify your values, beliefs, and in a general sense, what is your life purpose.

Website design By BotEap.comBefore being imprisoned, Nelson Mandela was the leader of the youth ANC and was trained in guerrilla warfare. He established the Umkhonto We Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), the militant wing of the ANC and if it weren’t for being captured, he might as well have been remembered for other things.

Website design By BotEap.comClearly, the opportunity to reflect on what was most important in life caused Mandela to change his mind and 27 years later he was released from prison and to this day he is hailed as the man who saved South Africa from a bloody uprising.

Website design By BotEap.comSo do you know what you believe in? And, most importantly, are you willing to act on it?

Website design By BotEap.comA security is not a security unless you are willing to pay a price to maintain it. As Martin Luther King Jr said: “I assure you that if a man has not found something that he is destined to die for, then he is in no condition to live.”

Website design By BotEap.comAn honorable leader knows what he believes in and is not afraid to go against the majority to take a position. Intrinsic values, such as freedom, justice, and equality, have value in themselves not only for what they create as an end result. Truly honorable leaders know this, and they also know that the importance of events and their role in the bottom line will not take on its significance until a long time has passed.

Website design By BotEap.com“I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be who I want to be.” -Muhammad Ali, 1964 in reference to leaving his slave name Cassius Clay and becoming Cassius X.

Website design By BotEap.comMuhammad Ali defended his religious beliefs and in doing so paid the hefty price of being banned from boxing. At the time, Ali was vilified, but as time passed his position was placed in a different context and to this day he is hailed around the world as a hero.

Website design By BotEap.com“My freedom cannot be separated from yours” – Nelson Mandela

Website design By BotEap.comWith a deep sense of self-honor, the second test for an honorable leader is to honor other beings. Mahatma Gandhi exhorted his followers to embrace a path of peaceful resistance even when they were being beaten with truncheons.

Website design By BotEap.comEveryone is entitled to their own beliefs, and honoring others is about being willing to listen to and respect those beliefs, even if they don’t agree with yours. In conflict, the honorable leader does not lose faith in others or hesitate to uphold higher ideals.

Website design By BotEap.com“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops are dirty, the ocean does not get dirty.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Website design By BotEap.comWhat others see as your values ​​are your actions. As noted above, words are meaningless without action to back them up. You cannot preach peace and then wage war. A child growing up in Afghanistan is much more likely to associate Americans with guns, violence, and war than with peace. The honorable leader agrees that we are all in this together. That there is a thread of interconnection that unites us as one. As the world becomes smaller through technology, we have an increasing number of opportunities to come together and hold a higher ground defined by freedom, equality, and honor.

Website design By BotEap.comSo how do you treat others? Do you have empathy and compassion? Do you hear other points of view? Do you consider all beings, not just other humans, when you are acting?

Website design By BotEap.comThe third test of honor concerns the Earth.

Website design By BotEap.com“Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we cannot eat money.”

Website design By BotEap.comWe cannot deny that we live in a closed system. Regardless of who wins the scientific debate on whether or not man’s actions are warming the planet, the simple reality is that we are destroying the earth in many different ways. Clearly, our economic system is flawed when it comes to putting a value on Earth. But this does not mean that it is okay to exploit it. Honoring the Earth means minimizing the impact of our actions on the Earth and, where possible, contributing to the betterment of the Earth through reforestation and cleanup programs.

Website design By BotEap.comWe have the technology to reduce our environmental impact now. Why are we waiting for our so-called leaders to reach a global agreement on carbon emissions? The Copenhagen summit showed that the main protagonists are well and truly bound by pressure groups and vested interests.

Website design By BotEap.comIt is time to stop waiting and act. We can act through the way we interact with the global financial system. Be clear about the environmental impact of the goods and services you buy. Invest with environmental and social criteria. And above all, do not work for organizations that are not aligned with your values.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen in doubt about any of this, ask!

Website design By BotEap.comThe fourth and final test of honor involves the spiritual or invisible aspect of life.

Website design By BotEap.com“We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts we make our world.” – Buddha

Website design By BotEap.comAs quantum physics is now confirming, there is more to life than meets the eye. Japanese scientist Masaru Emoto has shown that the power of our intentions is enough to affect the structure of water crystals. Other studies have shown the power of the mind to influence random event generators and how we can feel when they are looking at us.

Website design By BotEap.comA quantum field unites us all.

Website design By BotEap.comAn honorable leader recognizes the invisible nature of the universe and the power of the mind to influence this. Cultivating higher ideals in our minds is the fourth essential aspect of honor.

Website design By BotEap.comDo you have room for higher ideals and set the tone for your surroundings rather than simply reacting to what others are doing?

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Website design By BotEap.comThe only thing that unites Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and others is their willingness to defend a higher ideal and cause: freedom from oppression, civil rights, religious freedom, abolition of slavery.

Website design By BotEap.comIn the wake of the global financial crisis and the failure of our institutions to address structural inequalities in our economic system, I believe the time has come for the honorable leaders in all of us to stand up and be counted.

Website design By BotEap.comLet’s reject the system based on fear and greed that makes us all competitors. Reject scientific disputes about who is right or who is wrong about global warming. Reject the fear of those who have a vested interest in war and the will of the people themselves to end human lives.

Website design By BotEap.comStep forward and embrace a future based on higher ideals. Take some time to find out what you really believe in. Think about what you are really doing here before it is too late. Consider the interconnected nature of all of us. Use your leverage when interacting with the financial system. And above all it honors the invisible aspects of life and the divine nature in all of us. Because the deepest meaning of our lives will not become clear until it is too late to change it.

Website design By BotEap.com“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful and committed people can change the world; in fact, it is the only thing that has done it ”. Margaret Mead