THE GRATITUDE SERIES — Episode 8: LEADING & LIVING WITH PERSONAL DISCIPLINE

Episode 8 NOW PLAYING!

Welcome to THE GRATITUDE SERIES with Blake Leath of Leath Group.

EPISODE 8, " LEADING & LIVING WITH PERSONAL DISCIPLINE," is the third and final installment in a tiny trilogy (a “mini-series,” if you will!) within the broader GRATITUDE SERIES. EPISODES 6 & 7 explore PATIENCE & PERSERVERANCE respectively, whereas today’s focus is PERSONAL DISCIPLINE and serves as a tribute to the memory of Terry Fox.

Blake views PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, and PERSONAL DISCIPLINE as three parts of one logical whole, the common denominator being SELF-CONTROL — and self-control even in the face of cancer, amputation, chemotherapy, chronic pain, a problematic prosthetic limb, and the ever-looming prospect of death — as a teenager, no less.

If you are moved in any way whatsoever by Terry’s personal testimony as the boy who loved to run and could have thrown in the towel at any time but who, instead, chose to repurpose his ‘handicap’ into the heroic Marathon of Hope, then please experience EPISODE 6 about the girl who loved to write and EPISODE 7 about the bookworm who loved to study, research, and teach.

Our team’s hope is that EPISODES 6-8 inform not only one’s re-calibrated sense of self and ['woe is me'] perspective, but also afford leaders and followers alike a really meaningful moment to pause, reflect more deeply, take stock of life post-pandemically, and then move forward with a renewed and more integrative, purposeful, appreciative, and hopeful call to live. To, as Thoreau put it, “live deep and suck out ALL the marrow of life; to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was NOT life.”