Alexander The Great’s Advice

Alexander the Great once asked some sages to define a wise person. He was told a wise person is, “The person who sees the consequence of his actions.”

When we understand our own responsibility and take charge of that, we take our true power back. When we place blame for our circumstances on things out of our control, we lose that power.

Imagine how much different your marriage would be if you followed the spiritual wisdom in this quote. If instead of blaming your partner, what if you stopped and owned the consequence of your own behavior, and then made some new decisions?

How would companies turn around if leadership did the same? Instead of criticizing those in their charge, what if they instead asked of themselves, “How have I contributed to this environment, for good or bad?”

We are all warnings or examples. Leadership, as Tony Robbins shares, is about seeing things as they are, not worse than they are. Too many people make things bigger than they really are, then they look for someone or something to blame.

When we own our actions, and the results we have produced, then we can make real changes, fix the wrongs we created, and move forward towards where we know we can be.

That is true wisdom.