Making a promise produces no guarantee that you will accomplish what you promised. For the most part, our listening will produce promises that will reduce the risk rather than empower us to step into the risk.
If you promise something and then don't fulfill it, it doesn't mean that you don't live as your word. It means you didn't fulfill your promise.
The opportunity for mischief here is having an interpretation, "I have failed. I am bad."
If you are keeping your promises, it is not a promise. It is a prediction.
I'm not interested in developing your power to predict. I am interested in having you be empowered by a promise that you can stretch and live into.
Leaders make unreasonable promises and requests.
Leaders give power away by listening to others' unreasonable promises with a compassion and appreciation for what the person speaking is bringing forth by himself.
Power is the ability to be with what is so and have something to say about the way it turns out, not having it turn out your way.
Force is the negation of power.
- Werner Erhard
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