Many years ago I was a shepherd on a sheep station and in one of the paddocks was a swamp. Some sheep would go into the swamp for a drink and get stuck in a bog. I would pull the sheep out of the bog put it on dry ground facing the lush green pasture and as soon as I let it go it would turn around and go straight back in the bog.

A clairvoyant
A women phoned me one day and said she would like some one to one personal motivational coaching. I enquired as to why she wanted the coaching and she told me she was a clairvoyant and wanted to travel the world teaching people about what their past life was like and what it will be like in the future.
I warned her that I was a Christian but she assured me that was no problem because she beleived in God as well.
There were 7 weekly lessons in the personal self developmet course and on the 5th lesson she asked me to teach how she could become the best clairvoyant in the world. I could of done what she asked but I refused because her life was a mess.
She had a broken marriage and was living with a man she called her partner. Her children she did not speak to her, she did not get on with her partners children, she had broken relationships with her work mates and her boss.
I told her that all her problems were spiritual ones and that she needed to get her own life right with God before she started destroying others with her superstition. She never came back to see me.

Telling it like it is
I dont pull any punches with people I tell it like it is and that is not always what they want to hear. I had told this lady the truth and shown her green pastures but she had turned around and went straight back into the bog.

Finding the right leader
Those who have handled sheep will know that if you have a mob of sheep in a pen and you open the gate to let them out into green pastures they will run around the pen and none of them will go through the open gate.
All of a sudden one sheep will walk slowly towards the gate, see the green pastures and find the courage to go through the gate and then all the other sheep will follow. Some will even skip as they follow their leader.

Yesterday I sent out an email to all the people on my prospect list that I had chosen to attend the launch of my new Think Talk Seminar in Ashburton.
It was called the crowd is wrong and I explained how my first email asked people to confirm whether or not they were coming to the seminar and only one person replied. After yesterdays email 3 more people replied and it was interesting to note that yesterdays replies were all from successful leaders.
One lady lived in Auckland but she could not understand why I expected her to come to Ashburton to a Seminar. This lady does not know it yet but one day she may be begging me to come and talk to her and her clients in Auckland.

The other 2 people that replied were already my clients. They have both been to my seminars and listened to my CD on “How to Think Like a Winner” One of them has been through my 7 week personal self development course and is reaping the rewards from what I have taught him.

These 2 people are both good leaders in their own field. They became good leaders because they took the time to learn the success principals from someone who knew more than they did.They had the courage to go through the gate. They are experts in their own field yet they humbled themselves enough to say yes I will come and listen to some words that may help me grow as a person.

Dont you get stuck in the bog. Move away from the crowd and go and find someone that knows more about self development than you do. Absorb the knowledge and learn the skills that will make you a great leader.