have<\/strong> to win every time! Of course, you need to know what I mean by “win”. When we “win”, it is not because of superior strength, intellect or more resources. We “win” because we manifest the behaviour of champions, and others follow us because we inspire love and admiration in them. If they don’t follow us outrightly, they definitely want us to be on their side! Thinking that “You don’t have to win every time” is a subtle invitation to compromise on your principles, values and beliefs. People compromise these all the time thinking that they are being kind and considerate to the people who clamour, whine and demand that they do so.<\/span><\/p>\nNow, because people are people, you need to recognize up front that you are not going to be able to win everyone over. There will always be those who will be opposing you and will continue to be your adversaries no matter how inspirational you become. Protect those you are responsible for against such, even as you continue your journey as a champion.<\/span><\/p>\nThe one thing you do not want to become is an empire. There is no love in empires. Just control and domination. Manipulating of people by pushing “hot buttons.” Playing communities off against each other. Don’t try to fight an empire. Just be a centre of nobility and attractiveness yourself. People in your sphere of influence will benefit, and that is all, really, that matters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yes, they do. They start off unplanned. Nobody sets out to build empires, they just happen. The better emperors remain longer than others simply because they know about human nature. They know that humans all have a will to dominate, one way or another, and so they play with this and other characteristics to “destabilize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,6,451,13,16,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/mongol-empire.jpg?fit=645%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-1ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}