Law 3: Be Together Connect with intent

The figure shows a four-layered rhombus on the x-y axis. North axis is with the title “me,” south axis with the title “we,” “east axis with the title “inner confidence,” and west axis with the title “outer confidence.” The inner most rhombus is labeled as “unleash brilliance,” the second rhombus shows the following labels: “law 1,” “law2,” “law3,” and “law 4.” The third rhombus also shows the following labels: “Be ready,” “be together,” “be heard,” and “be you.” The fourth rhombus shows the following labels: “Mindset,” “stamina,” “behavior,” “collaborate,” “network,” “engage,” “accelerate,” “magnify,” “lead,” “character,” “focus,” “expertise.”

Who do you know? Who knows you?

Engage with others to innovate and ideate.

Connect and collaborate with intent.

Togetherness drives change.

Recently, I was picking up a coffee and I decided to do something a little different.

‘Large almond flat white, please,' I said while handing over my 10 dollars. ‘And I don't want any change, take it for the next person's coffee.'

When the guy behind me ordered his coffee and was told I had already paid for it, his facial expression moved from ‘WTF', to confusion, a gentle smile, then engagement.

‘Why would you do that?' he came and asked me.

‘Why not?' I said with a smile. ‘Happy Monday. Pass it on.'

And at that moment, with that one simple gesture, I knew I'd created a ripple of change for the day — for the guy, for the people around me looking on at the exchange taking place, and hopefully for those who were the recipients of the next ‘pass it on'.

Every single thing we say or do makes an impact.

In Drew Dudley's TED Talk Everyday Leadership, he shares the story of how on his last day at Mount Allison University in Sackville, Canada, a girl approached him and reminded him of the day she had met him four years earlier. She shared with Drew how scared she was about going to university, so scared in fact that on registration day she was ready to back out and head home with her parents. But while waiting ...

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