As many of you know I am an avid Georgia Bulldogs football fan.
With that being said, I recently heard an amazing story about star (sadly former) wide receiver A.J.Green that simply blew me away.
A. J. is a multi-talented player on the football field, but what many people don't know is that he has also mastered the art of juggling. Now that doesn't impress many people these days, but consider this: he juggles while simultaneously riding a unicycle!
Yep...a unicycle. We're talking full blown Wringling Brothers stuff here.
I can't think of a better picture of what everyday leadership looks like. You and I have answered a high call to be out front blazing the trail of our organizations. We take many hits and make many decisions all looking into the future success of our teams. There are countless meetings, conversations, goals, and people that we constantly are forced to juggle in order to make the whole thing flow.
Our ability to keep everything in the air is nothing short of miraculous! My encouragement to you in this season is to keep juggling. It may seem like you are trying to balance a unicycle and keep a bazillion bowling pins from hitting the ground, but keep juggling.
That's kind of the definition of management. Now for years many people have thought that management was a bad word in the arena of leadership, but this is false. You show me a great leader and I'll show you a great manager. The two are inseparable. So brush off those people skills, get your daily planner out and make it happen. I have come to learn that often it is in the juggling that we are silently driving our organizations forward. So you may feel like a clown at the circus, but the "greatest show on earth" is your group gaining new ground and making things happen positively for your team.
Getting back to A. J. the big thing about his amazing talent of juggling while unicycling is that he started doing it to do something "cool" and to improve his hand-eye coordination. As a wide receiver in division 1 college football (and the NFL where he is headed) hand-eye coordination is crucial.
Realize that your juggling is actually making you a better leader. You're not juggling for juggling's sake, you are getting better everyday.
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