10/07/2023
Over the summer holidays I read Michelle Obamas book ‘The Light we Carry” and last week that magic was ignited again watching the conversation discussing the book between Michelle and Oprah Winfrey.
What an amazing leader Michelle is, her message from the last 3 minutes of the documentary is so powerfully on point:
“Going high is just a choice of your approach. And going high is a choice.
It’s a choice that I think is most mature. It’s a king term choice. And it’s not you wallowing in the gut feeling of what you feel, at that moment, that’s self-indulgent.
When you’re a leader with a platform, we can’t afford to indulge our innermost ugly, right? We have a responsibility to go high because we are living, we’ve lived through leadership that goes low and no one feels good in that and it doesn’t lead to solutions. It just doesn’t work.
So I end the book with answering the the question that everybody has been asking me, “still go high Michelle? Now? Really?” And my answer is yes, “Yes absolutely. We always go high….but we do the work.”
And that’s what I want young people to know, that the light we carry is in all of us, we have to learn how to build it up in ourselves first. We can’t look to other people to build it up in us because sometimes, they don’t have it in them. And once we build it up, we have to protect it, you know? Protect it with a good kitchen table, keeping people in, but also letting people go when they’re not serving you for the best. When they’re losing oxygen.
You have to protect yourself from the poison that’s out there.
You’ve got to get out of other people’s mirrors, right? And then once you’ve buttressed yourself and you’ve got it together, then it’s our responsibility to share that light 💡 that’s the going high part.
So as you think about interacting, speaking out, texting 💬 using social media, think about the light you carry. 💡💕
Lead with that light 💡 because light begets light, hope begets hope. Going high begets more of it.
That’s why we do it.
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