The best and fastest way to kill performance, erode trust, stifle growth, and undermine initiative is to micromanage your team. 

Freedom works when everyone is given the same chance, not the same opportunity, but the same chance to make choices for themselves. It stops working when we artificially limit one’s ability to choose. 

If someone, chooses to not keep their promises, on purpose, they are the ones to avoid, the ones you cannot trust. 

If someone makes mistakes but always works to fix them, then they are the ones you can rely one, because you know where their heart is. 

If you can support your team,

and choose not to,

you are not a leader. 

Every moment of decision allows us to move forward or regress, the choice is always ours. 

Choosing faith over fear frees us, and helps us become better versions of who, deep down, we know can become. 

We don’t find what we want, 

we find what we are. 

When someone shows you who they are, 

and then they show you again, 

and,

if you choose not to believe them,

then every problem that comes after, 

is 100% your own choosing. 

When someone understands who they are, 

they stop wondering if they are good enough.

But rather, 

they wonder if they are doing enough?

if they are working hard enough?

if they are fulfilling their full potential?

They know they are enough, 

now the question is,

are they being who they really are?

Suffering is choosing to give uncontrollable events full-control.