Suzanne Steele
Balanced Wellness LLC
Providing Lifestyle Solutions
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From: Dennis Frappier [mailto:dennisf@maine.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:59 PM
To: 'suzanne & jeff steele'
Subject: HBM or Return to Oz
Dear Suzanne,
Thanks again for the efforts coordinating the HBM training this past weekend. It was my favorite one and was terrific. I feel so thankful and grateful to be associated with a company that demonstrates that it cares so much about us and about changing the world. I was reading a book this AM and was impressed to share it with the HBM group. Please forward to the list of attendees.
Chapter 20
Return to Oz
You’ve Always Had The Power
We’re off to see the Wizard…The wonderful Wizard of Oz… He truly is a wonder Wiz, if ever a Wiz there was…
Seems “We’re all off…” to find something. Searching for answers…Sometimes for people… Whatever it takes to get from where we are to where we want to go.
Dorothy just wanted to get back to Kansas. And, lest we forget, the friends she met along her way were searching too: for brains, a heart, and courage.
The Wizard of Oz is a classic metaphor for leadership. Dorothy discovered that leadership begins with knowledge in action----“Just follow the yellow brick road”---- and ends with the realization, “There is no place like home.”
Because from time to time we all need to be reminded, that if we just stay the course, we will reach our goals. Yet, the real wizardry of O is more subtly intertwined throughout the movie.
Remember, Scarecrow believed he didn’t have a brain, but he masterminded Dorothy’s rescue. Convinced he was without a heart, the Tin Man tried, repeatedly, to contain his emotions. And when it mattered the most, the Lion, still searching for courage, was absolutely fearless. Each one possessed exactly what he had been searching for all along.
And yet concealed in Oz’s last scene is perhaps the greatest leadership lesson of all:
Dorothy: Can you help me…
Good Witch of the North: You don’t need to be helped any logger. You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas.
Dorothy: I have?
Scarecrow: Then why didn’t you tell her before?
Good Witch of the North: Because she wouldn’t have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.
Dorothy believed the Wizard had the power--- turns out he was just the little man behind the curtain.
Dorothy had the Ruby Slippers--- the real power--- all along. And that’s what the true leadership is about. Helping people see their power, helping them bring out the greatness that was really there all along.
Because the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true… but only when you decide it’s time to wake up and live them!
“Oh Auntie Em, it’s you….”
Taken from, the book Learning The Business, One Story At A Time, by Michael S. Clouse, Chapter 20.
I am so proud to be associated with Nikken, a company that helps us to realize the power and the greatness inside of us. When we look at everyone seeing “the 3 year old” that is inside of them and when we learn to connect with them at a level that is important to them and learn about what is missing in their lives and possibly even offer them the opportunity to get their dreams and to become more, in fact to allow them to become all that they can be with their Health and with their Finances then they will also have the power to work on becoming balanced in all areas of their lives. Perhaps they will have the desire, the courage and the determination to join us as we change all of society one person at a time.
Respectfully,
Dennis Frappier
207-228-5388
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