i am nobody special

My name is Tony Myles, and I am Nobody Special.

Actually, I am. That's an anonymous name I once used to publish my thoughts on life and leadership back when I was first starting out with any sort of responsibility in ministry.

At the time I felt that whenever I'd offer an insight out loud or online, people would first filter it through their understanding of my identity. Perhaps that's only natural, for if we see a famous quote we often add or subtract credibility to it based on the person who said it.

And I didn't want to be discounted simply because I hadn't written a book or was thought of on a national level as someone with something to say.

Over time, though, I've realized that what I've learned and am learning is credible in itself... as one ancient thinker once put it, "All truth is God's truth." (Perhaps by keeping him anonymous, we can best see his point.)

The reason this blog has been started is simple - most of the insights on leadership in our world are offered in a Type-A context. By this I mean most books or conferences you can digest on the topic of leadership are primarily presented for Type-A thinkers, whereas I'm more of a Type-B kind of guy. I'll get more into what "Type-A" and "Type-B" means in an upcoming post, but the bottom line is that I have soaked up so much of each that I'd like to offer a balanced approach... especially for the folks who feel that they just don't fit into most structured thoughts on the "right way" to do something.

So that's the lens I'm looking at as I begin this blog. I will still maintain my other one, Don't Call Me Veronica, which is even more so an expression of my Type-B personality than this one may be. Nonetheless, I believe there are some insights here that simply need a place of their own.

I hope whatever follows becomes a tool in your toolbox, whether you have an official leadership role in the workplace, church, home, extracurricular, wherever... or simply want your life to become something amazing in a way that doesn't feel artificial at the end of the day.

My name is Tony Myles, and I am Nobody Special.