I Had a Dream last Night

 Today,  when I woke up, I said a prayer, woke up my laptop (I had clicked it to sleep) and wrote down the dream I had.

We came over to carry nippier grass, we exchanged pleasantries with the guys there. I opted not to carry the nippier grass as it does have some allergic hairy substances(I was the dreamer-cum-group leader). My group started carrying but I noticed they were demotivated as some grass fell along the path, I picked it and took it to the pickup. We agreed that the pickup was too far and we needed to bring it closer to where the nappier was. That was tough, it took joint effort, we all helped the driver navigate the reverse on a rough partly raised from the ground path on one side and a wall of earth on the other side, the pickup almost drifted twice before the last mishap and down it went rolling, hit another pick up that was packed at the lower level before falling on its rear, the head facing the open sky, exposing its belly.

My first response was to shout a hallelujah! The driver was unharmed, the packed pickup received negligible damage and it would be easier to pull down our pickup on its four.

The owner of the pickup approached our pickup driver, gave him a helping of slaps and turned to walk away. His colleagues saw the gesture and turned on us throwing stones and sticks at us. I noted that in our group, we had one guy whom these guys could resonate with and respect; I rushed to him and lifted his right hand with my left.

The next thing I saw was two still snaps; one, a picture of the emotions on people’s faces as the sticks and stones were busy on air, the other was a photo of the guy whose hand I had lifted, with a small portion of my hand still visible, and a headline on the first page, ‘The miracle man.’

That’s when I woke up and really gave that dream some thought before the alarm disturbed my line of meditation with a song, ‘ wake up and try again.’ it is 5.00am

My thoughts rushed through the dream trying to learn from it. The dream was so clear and memorable. 

I picked some from the dream some lessons on leadership.

A leader is not to sit back and expect the others to do the dirty work. Be involved. It will be rare to hear someone say to their leader, ‘come down to my level sir’ but that’s the hope in the hearts of the lead. If only he could include my point of view in his point of view!

A leader should be quick to get solutions for his people. Listen to their cry. What is their wish? What is their opinion? There is a great relief when the leadership allows their subjects to grow and expand their capacity. 

Things backfire. Solutions sometimes end up as unbalanced equations that raise a lot of questions. A leader should bring balance to the equation. Act decisively. I don’t know where the idea of lifting the hand of one of my guys came from. It was not a pre thought. It was spontaneous. It worked. 

Being a leader does not always mean that you get the limelight. I felt a twitch of jealousy when the guy whose hand I had lifted got all the marks and recognition when he had no idea what it is that I was doing. But then something crossed my mind. How many people know the manager, who saw the talent in that popular musician, invested in it and catapulted the guy into the celebrity arena? Most leaders are actually unknown. The teacher who taught you is a leader who shaped the great person that you are today yet well, I most likely don’t know who he or she is. Your parents are arguably the most influential leaders to you yet only known to you, your siblings and maybe your neighbors!

I hope you get what am saying, if not, well, am not a certified dream interpreter.