Leaders and Lemmings

The great American poet, Robert Frost, penned a mighty tome about how our life course is impacted by the life "path" we choose. It has been viewed and interpreted on many levels, but, to me, it is the tale of one who reached out and dared.

In any case….I choose to share it with you as my opening “salvo”. Here it is:

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Great, huh? What do you think? Do you see how it separates the followers from the risk takers? We’ll expand on this as we move ahead.

Bob the TourGuide