If you stop learning, you stop leading. From The Secret by Blanchard and Miller.
Leaders learn. If you want to stay ahead of your competitors, keep reading, listening and learning. If you want to be a better employee, better spouse, better parent, better person, keep learning.
There is no way that high school and college gave you everything you needed to master your life and future. There is no way the cable news shows are giving you everything you need to know to stay current in this world. So, what are you doing to go past where you are today. To open your mind and heart to new ideas, new thoughts, new strategies, new paradigms and possibly new directions.
Try to change things up for the next 30 days and see what happens. Buy a new book and read 1-2 pages every night. Download a podcast and listen to it for 10-15 minutes every morning while you drive to work. Push a book on cd in your CD player on your drive home. Schedule a breakfast or lunch meeting with an older, gray headed person and borrow some of their wisdom from years of their journey.
You will find yourself in places where you need to lead, so get ready. Step up your learning game. If you stop learning, you stop leading