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Minute With John Maxwell - Travel With High Road

The High Road to Leadership

It's the lessons that he taught me. He lived for 98 years and eight months. This next lesson I'm going to share with you that dad taught me was a life changer of. There's hardly a day goes in my life that this lesson doesn't come to play somewhere in my leadership journey, and that is dad to taught us to travel the high road. Now traveling in fact he told us to take the high road and which means turn the other cheek, go a second mile, be kind to people that aren't kind to you, and in fact, he said not only travel the high road but he said travel high and travel long.

Navigating Challenges with Integrity

My father was a president of a college; it's now Higher Christian University for several years. He had a college board, two or three people that just thought it was their job to be a pain in his rear area. Honestly, they couldn't have grown the college. My father was very successful; he built the college, grew it, and relocated it. Very successful but he had about three or four board members that just thought their job was to be a pain. So it was in my college years and in that great growing years of the school that it just got a lot of criticism from these few board members. I would hear him and mom talk about it, and it would make me angry.

A Life-Altering Lesson in Forgiveness

I remember one night my mother was the librarian, I was in the college library after hours. I was clearing the back of the library just doing some study, and my father didn't know I was in the library. He slipped into that library when it was at the end of a college board meeting. I listened to my father pray probably for 10-12 minutes, and it changed my life. He never knew that night I was in the library. That totally revolutionized and changed my life. I owe it to dad because in leadership is difficult. There are no two good consecutive days in a leader's life. It's a pain to lead people, people are difficult, and that is why you've got to love them. In leadership, traveling the high road, traveling high, traveling far, traveling light is a life-changing lesson my dad taught me.

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