The Flight Of The Hawk

Expand your horizons beyond your limits, acting unitary and in harmony with your own ideas, aspirations and beliefs.

Endowed with a fantastic sense of orientation, aware of their powers, leaders start their journey towards the fulfillment of their goals with great courage and enthusiasm, constantly having difficulties to overcome. However, they never beat a retreat. And they are never influenced in their decisions by anyone or anything, but they run along, fearlessly, constantly looking out for their moment of glory. And when their target rises on the horizon, they set about like hawks, forcefully and quickly, on it.

For tenacious and determined, serious and hardworking people, there is only one direction, one path to follow, always forward ! Always forward ! That is why they succeed in taking advantage of the opportunities that come in their life that is why they always succeed in reaching their goals.

Do your actions coincide in the form of a controversial situation and a commitment that goes beyond trying to manipulate a reality that is not exactly known?

A year before he succeeded in crossing Greenland by skis, starting from the most inaccessible coast; Fridtjof Nansen published his plan in various magazines. All previous explorers had failed, but he had the unyielding faith that he would succeed. His plan has raised many comments from the distrustful and suspicious opponents of the expedition who wanted to show him by all means that it is almost impossible to accomplish, and that would better have a retreat plan.

You cannot fly if you don't flap your wings. Nansen answered confidently to those who tried to discourage him: „The retreat path is a dangerous obstacle for whoever wishes to fulfill his goal, because for the fulfillment of the goal you must give everything that you can, not waste precious time, looking back, when all you have to do is look forward."

How well and to what extent can you control the direction of going within the normal limits of the ratio between what is prime in itself and what is prime for you?

Measure your forces before starting off on an unprecedented journey. What is prime in itself, that reality that you cannot accept as a guarantee of the duty to continue what you’ve started well, has as a first considerate in all actions a trait of the situation that is modified through man’s free will.

And what is prime for you is related to that culture of compromise made with the conviction that you will overcome what is happening to you as a useful lesson of life.

Ambitious leaders know how to put themselves forward until the end of their choices. With the admirable philosophy of the man who doesn't believe anything to be impossible, as long as he pulsates with enthusiasm and courage, making everything with passion, Nansen listened to his inner being and started, by his own "wings", the journey which nobody gave too many hopes. What for many people seemed to be a reason for unrest, a clear suicide attempt, for him, the one with hunter spirit and great will to win, it was only a challenge, a chance to know the world and measure his strengths.

Being a man of unyielding will, who looks at danger like at an opponent in a duel, Nansen assessed all the chances he had, he calculated in advance all the situations, which will be put, and went on to meet the danger, cutting all his ways of retreat. Fully aware of the risk he exposed himself to, he went ahead motivated by sincere belief that he will succeed and thus will spread the news about him in a way to make him memorable.

The reason for a long journey seen as a permanent condition of freedom of thought and action has as a background that feature of life that changes with the end of your comfort zone.

Nansen possessed the art of leadership, always controlling the direction he went on, growing up slowly but steady to his own greatness. He had a lot of courage, but besides courage, he also had a compelling tenacity and will, he was like a force nothing could stand in his way. He concentrated at maximum at what he had to do, proving that, through will, everything is possible. And not only that. He constantly set new goals, heading to new destinations, thus experiencing new challenges and new difficulties. Here is the material of which is made a strong leader.

The flight of the hawk

If Nansen still lived, he probably would have given us the following advice: "Open your wings and fly to fulfill your goals. Don't fear anything. Be brave to fly as high as possible after you learn how to flap your wings. And just like a flock of migrant birds which follow their most experienced sister and which flies the first, ahead of others, you will become a guide for those you lead."

If you want your leadership to get value, learn from Nansen: expand your horizons beyond your limits, acting unitary and in harmony with your own ideas, aspirations and beliefs.