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John specializes in corporate breakouts, training, coaching, and keynotes, as well as in role modeling and behavior for celebrities.
He has 14 years of corporate headquarters management experience for a Fortune 100 company and over ten years international management consulting experience for primarily large organizations. He specializes in full company assessments and continuous improvement, customer satisfaction, leadership, measurement systems, and has many years of facilitation experience as well as morality leadership, which is a good model for celebrities, including franchise athletes, to follow.
The more successful role models become, the more appreciated they are, generally speaking. Role models should be careful not to belittle this appreciation. There is appreciation (love) from God and appreciation from fans.
Appreciation can give an unseen lift to performance, especially in the entertainment industry, including sports. Role models should respect this appreciation and realize the mental lift that it can give. All humans like to be appreciated and this can give a warm feeling and glow to the human consciousness. Not, however, to advocate that performance should be for the sake of being appreciated. Ideally the motives for performance are unselfish and pure, such as putting God first. The appreciation is just a nice by-product of role models’ actions.
In today’s society, morality is definitely one of the prices that has to be paid for role models to earn, maintain, and even increase the appreciation. My definition of morality is following God’s Ten Commandments and Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. The higher role models’ attainments, sometimes the higher the levels of temptation are that come with that progress. Role models need to be especially on guard and strong during these periods of temptation. Whole careers have been tainted just by a weak moment of yielding to an immoral temptation. The more immorality, the less role models will be appreciated. That’s just the way God’s kingdom is and the way today’s society is. So role models who do yield to these temptations should not be surprised if their performance levels start dropping. And it can be a long road back to total forgiveness and regaining that appreciation and the edge it can give to performance.
So, role models, please take this seriously. No matter how strong and persistent temptations seem, please let the Kingdom of God “within you”- the morality within you, be even stronger and more persistent. The love of God and the appreciation you gain for your moral courage and stamina are priceless.