A Wish for Leaders

I sincerely wish you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, planning it, organizing it, and following it to completion, then having it be magnificently successful.  I also hope you go through the same process and have something fail terribly.

I wish you could know how it feels to run with all your heart and lose terribly.

I wish that you could achieve some great good for man and have nobody know about it except you.

I wish that you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of devoting your life.

I hope you become frustrated and dissatisfied enough to begin to push back the very barriers of your own personality limitations.

I hope you make a stupid unethical mistake and get caught red handed and are big enough to say those magic words, “I was wrong.”

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it’s worth it all.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you a reason for living and purpose and direction and élan and life.

I wish for you the worst kind of criticism for everything you do because that makes you fight to achieve beyond what you normally would.

I wish for you the experience of leadership.