How are you tomorrow?
I am currently in the land of smiles (Thailand) teaching a leadership development program for a pharmaceutical company. At the end of the first day I wandered out of my hotel looking to stretch my legs and get something to eat. I chose a restaurant with al fresco dining so that I could watch the world go by.
The waitress arrived, and after taking my order ventured to practice her English by asking, “how are you tomorrow?” I smiled and chuckled and said that I intended to have a really good day tomorrow and that I was also having a good day today.
Her accidental phrase left me thinking because I had just spent most of the day teaching a group of senior managers that they were in control of their thoughts and feelings; in this context how are you tomorrow is not such as silly question.
As I have explained in previous blog posts, self leadership requires self confidence but it also requires self-determination. Self-determination is the free choice to determine one’s behaviours and therefore influence our own destiny. How are we tomorrow will in part be due to what we do today.
Self determination is also defined as the freedom of the people of a given territory to determine their own political status. With the current situation in Iran we see a people passionately attempting to self determine their tomorrow. This situation is a powerful reminder that if we currently enjoy the freedom to exercise our own choice to live and create our own tomorrows we should be truly grateful. Even with the current economic changes we can still take action today to make sure tomorrow is a better one.
Here is wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous tomorrow.
June 22nd, 2009 at 5:24 pm
This is a great post Andrew. I REALLY like how you connected her statement with the information you put out in this post. Honestly, as I was reading it, I was wondering how you were going to make a transition into a valid point. You’re obviously on top of your stuff!
Though I am familiar with Self Determination, I never really looked at it that way (in terms of determining my own future). It really makes me appreciate the fact that I have the right to do so. I am currently posting this from Iraq, I am a US soldier. That just adds so much more meaning to this post for me.
Anyway, to avoid rambling on, I’ll stop now. I’ll be subscribing to your RSS feed. It’ll really help me with my blog as well. Thanks for the great post and I look forward to reading more of your work!
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for the feedback Sean, glad you like the blog.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Pretty nice post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really liked reading your blog posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!