***Aggression
“When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping.   Men invade another country.   It’s a whole different way of thinking.”   Elayne Boosler
 
LINCOLN'S LOG—RESOLVE TO BE HONEST
***In Lincoln’s day, just as today, lawyers handled the cases of clients who were guilty—because under our adversarial system even a guilty person is entitled to the best defense possible.  But what is unethical is being dishonest while defending a client.

Lincoln was emphatic on this point:  “Resolve to be honest,” he stated.  “If, in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer.  Choose some other occupation, rather than one in the choosing of which you do, in advance, consent to be a knave.”

Even before Lincoln became a lawyer, he had earned the name “Honest Abe.”   At frontier sporting events events often led to disputes and brawls.  R. B. Rutledge, the son of the New Salem tavern keeper, remembered that Lincoln was often chosen to resolve controversies.  Rutledge recalled, “People relied implicitly upon his honesty, integrity, and impartiality.”

(Adapted from The Words Lincoln Lived By, pp. 20, 21.  If you’d like to order an autographed copy of this book, click here.  www.achievementdigest.com/thewordslincolnlivedby.html    Contact us for quantity discounts.) 

LEADERSHIP LESSONS
 
How To Tell The Truth
Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry Truman, wrote a book about the wives of the Presidents that she called First Ladies.  Margaret Truman considered Lady Bird Johnson, wife of Lyndon Johnson, “the almost perfect First Lady.” As she put it, Lady Bird transformed the position of First Lady “from the realm of gifted amateur to the domain of the orderly professional.”

For press secretary, Lady Bird Johnson hired Liz Carpenter, a shrewd newspaperwoman who for decades had covered the Washington beat.  Lady Bird asked Liz Carpenter to poll the press corps and find out how she could best relate to them.  Here is the advice Liz Carpenter came back with:  “Be available” and “Never Lie.   Tell us you can’t tell us, but never lie.”

Forward Thinking

Jazz legend Ramsey Lewis told me that he makes it a practice to sit quietly by himself just before he goes on stage and go through the entire concert in his mind.  Lewis visualizes what will happen with each number that he will play.  “After I do that,” he told me, “I can’t wait to go out and get started.”

(I do forward thinking before a Lincoln performance or a seminar.  Hours or sometimes days before the event I decide the sequence of the stories, the modules that I will use, etc.  I make notes so that I won’t forget.  Then, just before I go on, I do a final forward-thinking exercise to get my mental attitude just right.   It’s a mind game.)

Some high achievers allot a specific chunk of time on their to-do lists to think through what they are planning on doing.  This gives them time to decide whether they want to move in one direction or the other, and whether they are stumbling into a trap.

Forward thinking, incidentally, is an essential element of wisdom.  Wisdom is, after all, understanding what will happen if you act (or do not act) in a certain way.   

Adapted from Time Tactics of Very Successful People, pp. 168, 169.  If you’d like to order an autographed copy of this book, click here.   www.achievementdigest.com/timetacticsofverysuccessfulpeople.html Contact us for quantity discounts.)

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