E is for Experimental / Entrepreneurial

The next key characteristic of those who can lead us into "the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible" is an experimental or entrepreneurial bent.  These leaders are not wedded to the status quo; in fact, they naturally question its underlying assumptions.  They allow their curiosity about alternatives to guide them, seeing adventure or opportunity where others see only drudgery or roadblocks.  Some of these leaders have long (or always) been in touch with this aspect of themselves.  Others among their ranks need encouragement – and practice – to rediscover this way of being in the world.  I am in this latter category.  Maybe you are too.  Here is a poem of encouragement for you: 

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Try It

Try this. Try it out. Try it on for size.

Just try. Why? Because that cattle path you've worn
in your brain's made a groove, a rut so deep –
            and deepening with every pass –
it stands to cleave your gray matter clean
in two. And what will you do then? How
will you manage, half a melon in each hand?
Surely it is better, is it not, to tread a lighter course,
to thread between the sycamores and walnuts
on either side, to weave even as you wander,
to trail fresh forest dust in your wake, the stuff
of fairy tales, binding the world together under
spell of your loose magic. Go on. Go ahead. Try it.