 Why am I wearing this crazy hat is to show you what Presidents Day can teach us about leadership. Welcome back and congratulations on taking one more step towards becoming one of the great leaders of tomorrow. Presidents Day is a great time for us to think about the great leaders of the past and the contributions they've made to the world. And it also gives us a great opportunity to think about who our role models are and what they've done that's great. Part of our professional education on leadership is to study other leaders and their leadership styles. We can learn a great deal from how other leaders approach the challenges that they faced and their successes and failures. Even though we're talking about Presidents Day today, we don't have to choose leaders to study who are historically significant or famous. We can choose anybody that we feel that we can learn from. One of the areas we can learn the most by studying other leaders is looking at their key traits that made them successful or in some cases unsuccessful. Even more so than the decisions they made or the actions they took by studying the key traits of these leaders it gives us insights into why they made those decisions or why they took those actions and it helps us apply that logic in our everyday lives. The study of key leadership traits and the impact they've had on other leaders' performance can help us decide if these are leadership traits that we want to include in our own leadership style. As we've talked about before, developing leadership traits is hard but it can be done. It requires us to build tools and systems that help us modify our behavior in order to develop those traits until they become second nature to us. One final note on all of this is that nobody's perfect including the leaders we study. As we dig deeper into their lives we might find that they have some key leadership traits that we really want to incorporate into our leadership style and others that we don't resonate with as much. Even if we find that there's something undesired about the leaders that we've studied, we can still learn something that can benefit our own leadership style. So in honor of Presidents Day this week, pick a leader that you respect and go learn more about them. Find something about their leadership style that you want to incorporate into your own and take action to make it happen. If you found this helpful follow us on Twitter and Facebook and don't forget to join us every Friday at 10 a.m. Pacific time for a live interactive leadership discussion on Blab. Click off on that globe to the right and that'll subscribe to our email list and that'll bring all of our content directly into your inbox. I want to thank you for watching as always and remember the future is out there. Lead the way.