Is your default reply a symptom of a mindset of can’t, or do you have a mentality of possibility? When someone says, “Here, read this book,” do you shift into can’t or can? When someone says, “Hey, you know what? I’m amped to run a marathon.” Do you go, “I can’t”?
Is that your default setting in your neurobiological hard-wiring? Or do you go, “Absolutely,” or, “I’d love to do this.” It’s really, really important, and that is one of the core distinctions of leadership, isn’t it? It’s victimhood or leadership.
And I respectfully suggest to you every single day, we don’t only have an opportunity to show leadership without a title, we have a responsibility to do so.