Embrace the Valleys

I take to this quote from Michael Signer's work on James Madison (2015) whenever I hit the rough patch in my educational leadership work:

“Public life is a journey through peaks and valleys. All public leaders find their apotheosis at one time or another; very few can sustain the same achievement, or image, or theme, from one month to the next…” 

Solace in knowing not even the greatest figure heads in history hit the low points as well as the high!

This post is part of my "Leadership Lessons From American Presidents" series.