Responsible sharing

When you’re a teacher or in a position of authority, your community, your students or your clients are putting their faith and trust in you.

Sometimes to a fault.

It should be viewed as a great honour and responsibility – because it is.

Recommending or referring “should” come from a place of time tested experience.

How can you teach concepts that you don’t know and embody yourself?

How can you recommend something that you haven’t even applied in your own life and received results from?

Similarly, how can you honestly refer someone’s services if you haven’t tried them? Or, how can you refer a product if you’re not even using it?

To me, it’s incredibly irresponsible and not using your leadership for the greater good of your community.

Yes, it’s up to each of us as students to do our due diligence, and to research our teachers, coaches and mentors – firstly by ensuring that they are even someone we should be listening to in the first place.

Yes, we are each responsible for the decisions we make and should be using our own discernment.

And it’s responsible leadership to tell the truth. 

I’ve seen it so many times when people just blindly follow whatever their teacher suggests – without even giving it a second thought – they’ve stopped thinking for themselves and rely solely on the teacher or mentor for answers. They’re just drinking the Kool-aid.

It’s like the blind leading the blind.

We’re all students on this great journey of life – no one is expected to have it all figured out or to have all of the answers.

But before sending someone enthusiastically in the wrong direction, ensure you’re teaching and speaking from your personal experience – not someone else’s. 

Ensure that you’re in service to your community – not your ego.