I’ve been lucky in that I’ve had great female and male mentors and it seems my skill set and capabilities have been, to this point anyway, valued.  So I’ve got luck.  I also believe, “Luck favors the prepared.”  And the prepared don’t whine. Given the historical, societal, environmental challenge and opportunities you uniquely face, you have immense choice regarding what to say and how to behave right now. According to Victor Frankl, a Nazi war camp survivor highlighted in the Signature course The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the greatest human freedom is the ability to choose our reaction in the face of any circumstances. Imagine that instead of Susan B. Anthony saying, “Suffrage is the pivotal right,” and working her entire life to obtain voting rights for women in the United States, she had simply invested her time in complaining to the women in her knitting circle! Executive Mamas focus on what they can do, not on what they cannot.

Blame or finger-pointing and lack of personal responsibility

Keep the gloomy game going.

They keep stealing your hidden genius and potential wealth-

Giving them to a dimwit on the sidelines with

No leadership, heart, or financial skills.

Dear one,

Wise Up.

- Hafiz, fourteenth-century Sufi poet

Author: Jennifer Colosimo, Vice President of Sales and Delivery Effectiveness at FranklinCovey

Hello to thousands of our friends worldwide on the new FranklinCovey blog.

What is this blog about? Well, our FranklinCovey mission is to enable greatness in people and organizations everywhere.

It sounds pretty ambitious to help everybody become great. It sort of depends on how you define the word “great.” Maybe you feel a little weary just reading our mission statement-I know I do. Sometimes just getting up in the morning is a “great” accomplishment.

But at FranklinCovey it’s a mission we deeply believe in.

This is what we mean by our mission: We’d like to help you and everybody else live a great life.

What could be a more energizing mission than that?

That’s why we’ve started this blog.

We’re going to discover among ourselves what it means to live a great life-how you personally can live a great life-and how together we can help other people live a great life.

When you come to this blog you’ll be blown away by the ideas for living not just a pleasant life, a secure life, a nice life-but a truly great life.

Sometimes we’ll talk about people who have made a great impact on the world, famous people, the kind of people we usually call “great.”

But just as often we’ll talk about people who look deceptively ordinary but are actually incredibly great. People who have chosen greatness in the circle they live in, no matter how small that circle.

People like you.

And that’s why we’re inviting you to send us your own stories of greatness . . . stories about great people you know. Stories about people who have transcended the boundaries of the everyday, who have made unique contributions, who have made a compelling difference.

And together we’ll discover what such people are made of.

Send your stories to blog@franklincovey.com