How about yourself?

I use to skip over leadership articles – “knowing” that they were only for people that were CEOs of big companies or managers with a large number of people to supervise.

Not me. I just had myself and 2 other employees to take care of – no big deal – I could handle it.

Then I realized what leadership was all about.

If I couldn’t lead myself in direction that I wanted to go – If I couldn’t lead myself to reach my goals or change my life – how would I be an example to my family, my employees, my customers, or anyone I met?

The hardest person to lead is yourself.

The smallest changes you want to make in your life are sometimes most difficult to lead yourself through.

Aside from being beautiful (which is a big “aside), I’d say “other things” we look for in life (or that hunt us down) are what’s called “normally distributed” among beautiful and not-beautiful. In other words, there’s about same amount of happiness, money, good health, tragedy, addiction, good luck, intelligence and so forth given to beautiful as to any of us. No more; no less. I’ve known two breathtakingly beautiful people who were among two most miserable people I’ve know.

So how is it different being beautiful? According to a recent report from msn.com about beauty and bounty, not surprisingly it appears you‘ll get treated better by your doctor if you’re pretty, you’ll get more attention from your teachers and better grades if you’re pretty, and should that pretty face of yours turn up in court, you’ll get a lighter sentence than your criminal-peer who’s homely.

And in addition, if while in court you’re being defended by partner of firm, who seems exceptionally young to be a partner, chances are he’s handsome! Male lawyers who are handsome make partner earlier, reported Hamermesh and Biddle in “Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers’ Looks and Lucre.” “Lucre,” of course, meaning “money.”

Unfair? Definitely.

In her article about this, “Do Pretty People Earn More?” msn careerbuilder.com editor, Kate Lorenz, gives us data. To remind us of what we kinda already knew. That it helps to be good-looking.

So nothing here to alert press about. Or maybe there is.

When folks who actually do hiring were interviewed, they said in so many words that a pretty face was just another pretty face; they were after something else (besides qualifications, of course). “It is appearance of confidence they find attractive, not presence of physical beauty,” Lorenz found. “And they contend that attractiveness has more to do with how you carry yourself and energy you exude – rather than having perfect features or a great physique.”