05/30/2026
Daily reminder that there is no I in team. Many businesses or project teams consist of a group of individuals under the direction of a leader, teacher, boss or some sort of singular authority. However this is the root of many toxic work or school or group environments. Someone may be an owner of a facility and has a team under them. Here's where to break it down though. There is no team under you, there is a team with you. A mark of a well-oiled and healthy team is that when you see it functioning you have no idea who's in charge. It's all about serving the whole not serving the one. Case in point, I am the owner of the studio, however I have a team of individuals that work with me and each of them brings something you need and is very valuable to the working stability of this wheel. Although I'm the owner, one person in particular is extremely good with organizing and cleaning and has a bright talent for looking at any situation and being able to improve it. As far as I'm concerned that is her wheelhouse that is her area of expertise and although I might own the company, I don't question her in her area of expertise and if she tells me to do something regarding that then I listen and I do what she's asking. This is ta**ra this is honoring with equal exchange each person's contributing factor to nature. Just because I may own the business it doesn't mean that I am as good in that department as she is that's her expertise and so instead of pressing her to work within limits of a subject I understand less than her, I allow her to designate and facilitate that area. If you can learn to work with others in this way you can turn a non-functioning toxic environment into something absolutely beautiful and flowing. Long ago I worked managing a store for a man named Umar and Umar would always say that we do not work for him that we work with him and that he wouldn't be successful if it were not for us. I took that very valuable advice with me and to my work ethic and when you can view your team in this way, it brings Harmony and peace into every environment every day. The greatest authority is to allow everyone their own authority and allow that authority to integrate .