A Show In The Honor Of Life

Put to the test the strength of your character, by making from leadership a principle of life.

Recently, the famous actor Michael Douglas was invited to the popular TV talk show "Late Show with David Letterman", on CBS. Perhaps, the most important moment of the talk show was when they talked about the stage I of throat cancer with whom was diagnosed Michael. He proudly mentioned that, despite his disease, he will continue to shoot the movie "Haywire".

David Letterman, who did not stop looking at Michael throughout the interview, seeing that he did not fade at all when talking about his health, asked him: "You look great, you don't seem like a man who became ill because of cancer. How do you manage that?"

With all his well-known self-control, hiding all trace of anxiety, Michael answered without hesitation: "Because I'm on stage ! "

What is the Self you want to express in the dynamic fullness of life as a result of the use of acting forces?

The answer of the famous Hollywood actor suggests the strong confidence that gives him the stage where he began and made his rich career, the stage on which he served and will always serve with faith and devotion, the stage which, although often exhausts him physically, gives him an impetus and strong emotional energy, at the same time.

The stage is where the connection with life is made. A true artist's whole world is the stage, and as long as he had to interpret a role, he had to play it good and constantly.

Playing a role is perhaps the greatest joy and happiness that a true artist can feel. The stage gives him the power to devote himself quietly to his work, playing his role with a vibrant passion, with a rare depth and aplomb, often despite many difficulties he encounters in real life. Lively, intelligent and very thirsty after excellence, dominated, among others, by an emphasized spirit of trust and hope, he will maintain on stage an amazing consistency in the attitude with which he appears on the stage and which it deals with the theme of roles.

The self you want to express in the dynamic fullness of life, as a result of the use of acting forces conceals an internalization of the image of others regarding you in the case of a situation where you are not sure that you have done everything to meet their expectations. This self is actually your most expressive, more penetrating and vulnerable side, more exposed to the critical and vigilant eye of the viewer who is interested in the facts, and not of their arbitrary narrative.

Can you be brilliant on both main sides of your field of evolution?

What can you say about the character of every man you meet? Do you understand the features that individualizes him? What is the basis for his own development? Is it strong the faith in his qualities? His attitude makes him cope when his life raises hindrance? Does he accept the natural limitations imposed on him by life?

The answer of the famous actor, Michael Douglas, designates just such a reality, in which man feels essentially engaged in the "life-stage" relationship, both equally important on the leadership’s fundamental axis – which contains power, virtues and character traits in its structure.

To achieve a strong leadership, not a temporary one, which will remain only in memories, you must create a lifeline between you and your potential to be brilliant on both main sides of your field of evolution: life and career.

Like an art surrogate that becomes a real aesthetic danger today, leadership may become more of a chore, a brake or a dilemma than a natural development of personal skills in circumstances that include self-liability. That’s where, to achieve effective results, the leader fails to follow a clear direction of development, hardly focusing on understanding the impact of his own performance on the quality of his performance on the stage of life.

Therefore, one can get in the following situation. That instead of authentic leadership, based on the relationship between personal and professional, the leader to be given, by the network of his own concepts, ideas, philosophies, perceptions and reference points, a tempting substitute for leadership, a weak point in the middle of his evolution, expressed through a concentrated mix of inferiority and insecurity regarding his place in the social and existential structure.

What kind of leader are you? How much do you get involved in the stage-life relationship?

Do you stay anchored in what you have described as an image of perfection in the core of which the doubt arises over your own conditions and values, according to the result of interpreting a role performed in a public show?

A true leader rises to a high level of thinking and artistic interpretation. The leader seems rather like an actor who creates with talent an important role within the organization he belongs to. It is up to his duty to totally identify with the character he plays, even if sometimes he is afraid of the intensity of his own emotions when he plays his guiding role.

As a leader, do you prefer to play tragic roles, like that of a parent who helplessly witnesses the tortures unfairly suffered by his own child, which he sees dying?

Or, do you adopt every time the same posture that the famous actor Michael Douglas painted for himself at the well-known TV talk show hosted by David Letterman - the posture of the confident, optimistic man who, healthy or sick, plays on his role constantly with great energy?

Michael has the undeniable merit to be crossed by a flaming boom, by a vigorous trust in his future. And, so you must have the same attitude. However, for that, you must turn your leadership into a life principle.

Your role, as a leader, is to lead the organization ahead. Nevertheless, the task of being the leader and the guide of the necessary transformations is not so easy as it might seem. People tend to express their increasing discontent with your performance if you do not lead them in the most favourable direction.

The leader is not at all a simple artist, but a true performer who remains devoted to his work. Full of talent and always looking, through his art, to maintain himself on his present place in the organization, he will manage to achieve everything he wants.

The result of interpreting a role performed in a public show is contained in the content of the relationship between what you are trying to project on others and what is coming back to you by discovering what you mean to the whole world.

A Show In The Honor Of Life can be called the performance of a leader, who does not lay down his arms and does not give up in dramatic circumstances. The life of a leader is a show by itself, in which he has the main role - a role that he must perform with an amazing consistency. And, in the way he is leading his own existence, says a lot about his ability to lead other people.

If you want to function at your best and be a high achiever, put to the test the strength of your character, by making from leadership a principle of life.