Expand Your Vision

Kevin R. McGee told me I think 3-4 years ago to read E-Myth Revisited. He probably should’ve said I will not speak to you again until you read E-Myth Revisited--then I probably would have done this a lot earlier. However, I believe I read this at the right time, when I was ready to receive the message.

I started working with candidates because I love public service. I think those that choose to run for office are some of the bravest people in the world. I believe that there are far more people that are doing this to serve than those that are doing it to put another title on their name.

Those are the people I love working with. The law school student that is in their final year of law school, a wife, raising two kids and feels it’s time for her to run for office at the same time. The music executive who wants to run because what they want to fix can’t be done from the outside. The college professor that is tired of seeing their students hopes and dreams leave upon graduation because opportunity isn’t knocking like they thought it would.

These are not the people that get all of the coverage on television everyday, but these are folks I love working with--the hustlers, dreamers and those that are ready to get things done.

People tell me all the time they want to run for office one day. Then I end up talking to them about what they need to do, how they need to do it and who they should go talk to and books they need to read etc....not realizing that I really love that early itch when people know they should be doing more and what to know how.

I also hear from people that may not want to run but want to get more involved helping others run and win. Whether that is being a strong donor or becoming a political operative, and again I’ll sit and talk for hours about what you can do, where to go, fixing resume’s and sending political job opportunities.

It’s time to do more. It’s time to expect more from myself and my team. It’s time to serve in a greater capacity.

Working with women candidates is different than working with men. We literally try to do it all, from being the candidate, to the campaign manager, chief donut buyer, field operative etc..... to win a campaign. We will run ourselves into the ground to get the job done. Not that men don’t work hard---so don’t send me a bunch of messages about how men multi-task, because that is not y’alls ministry--but we work differently. That deserves another level of attention, intention and concentration.

The people that come from the non-political powerhouse, need different love too. Our baby-boomers, people of color, faith leaders, police officers, millennials, etc... the under-represented ones in politics. These are my giant killers, willing to take on the status quo, the establishment and anyone that stands in their way to serve. There are a lot of these people, but sometimes I see them bringing knives to gun fights and they can’t understand how they lost, or why their campaign isn’t getting off the ground. They too deserve another level of attention, intention and concentration.

We have to show everyone that has a chair, how to get to the table. Whether you want to run, donate, politically operate or expand your impact as a public servant. Reading the E-Myth, now 3 times, challenged me to be a visionary more than a tactician. It’s challenged me to see how we can do more even when I thought we were stretched.

I’m sure there are a lot of others in business that read the same book and may have gotten a different message. What it forced me to do is to look at why I wanted to serve people in the first place and how I want that to reflect in every aspect of what I do and what we do going forward.

Kevin R. McGee, thank you for telling me to read this book. I can finally see that I am on the path that God intended. For the first time, the work doesn’t feel heavy. It is so light but purposeful at the same time. Expanding my vision is expanding other’s possibilities. It’s finding the win, win, win in everything that I do going forward. The vision is bigger and better than my old eyes could have ever imagined.

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