This has to be my favorite line:
> I also told him if he didn't shape up I'd remove him.

I am like the guy in your story. Although mine was a bit different. 

*I had a manager before in (Jollibee) who needs my little help to surprise his friend's wife. My manager ask me to bring a bouquet of flowers to the wife of his friend to surprise her on valentines day. I never had given someone a flower before so the task was different. I told my manager that I cannot do it. He told me, "Okay, you can pack your things up, and never come back here."* Because he also meant that the same skill is needed in my job.

*The last thing I want that time was to lose my job as a service crew that supports my schooling in college." So, I really shaped myself up. I need to learn the skill of dealing with people, facing the crowd, and a lor more. 

Your message in this article seems to be directed at me and achieving success requires more than just dreaming. 

Many times, we feel we are doing our best whereas there is more left in us that we are not seeing/doing but with people like you,  we are called to notice and things will begin to change for good if we choose to drill ourselves more in the right position to achieve our dreams. 

What other way to describe a good leader, a team player and one who is progress conscious other than this. Most leaders I have met are too proud , wanting you to err so that they eject you and bring someone from their kin, but see how you fatherly retrain this lad and now you are proud of him and I'm sure he would live to ever remember how much you sharpen his team spirit and work experience. I just have to copy paste the link to this post for reference purpose and for my own learning too. Thanks @galenkp 
#Selfimprovement 

The young man in your life story Galen did not change your goals, desires, and dreams, he only learned to actively listen to what you taught him and understood that success is a lifestyle of always turning "failures" into learnings to obtain victory.

I have gone through that, recognizing and acting on the value of commitment to fly with one's own wings.

That's a very cool phrase from Plautus, sir.

"I'm ready to fly" is a saying born of a person who has trained hard, has a sense of responsibility, and is committed to himself.
Getting someone to say, "I'm ready to fly," takes encouragement from someone who has already flown high.

A motivator, a mentor, a coach, or another similar role is a lighter for a beginner. But not everyone is able to make others ready to fly. Not all pilots can make others fly, right? That is why a person who is a leader must also have the ability to be a motivator, mentor, or coach for his members.

I rarely give direct orders, but I can be a spark to get my members to do something with analytical questioning techniques, and I help them find solutions to their own problems by opening their own wings.

a quality and successful team is hard to form 

Straight shooter :)

Reading this made me think at what I wanted to do last year, and I didn't. (short list - flying lessons, learn to ski, go to an archery session).

I confess that laziness has never belonged to me at work, due to my professional approach I have always done more than what was required of me.

In the same way, I happened to find myself in situations where I had to motivate the team I managed because it happens when you have high standards for yourself first and for others obviously you don't find good collaborators.

Often it's not the cup of others who do a normal job, but when you're used to excellence everything becomes more complicated.
The fact remains that a good leader knows how to motivate his men to make them perform at their best.

That collaborator of yours was lucky to meet you, I think he changed his life for the better because you were able to motivate him to give the best of himself.

Only all the time :)

Glad the kid motivated, could have just as easily gone all snitty knowing that he was doing just fine thanks and he was right and you were wrong and then you might have had to kick him off the team instead and then his life may have ended up the same if he'd finally picked up the lesson further on or completely different if he never did XD

<sub>ahh the possibilities that can happen based on this, that or the other thing</sub>

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A wonderful piece you've shared here. Sometimes, we are just limited by our minds and mental dispositions that we fail to achieve our potential, and just like the young lad some decades ago, we just need that big push to move above our limits. It is quite discomforting to be pushed sometimes, but it only takes a humble person to see beyond the way the message was presented, to looking deep into the message and following through on it. 

Our words of motivation and encouragement could be the nudge a person simply needs to attain greater heights. 

For myself, I've been quite hesitant to delve into deeper aspects of information technology, citing excuses such as being too busy and protecting my vision (I've a very sensitive sight), however, towards the later part of 2022, I knew I had to grow beyond my current state, with no one to motivate me, I decided to motivate myself. I've started with simple IT stuffs such as Software Testing/Manual QA, and Tech Support, and hope to delve deeper into these with time. 

To fly, we definitely need feathers, and such feathers could be more than standing in a higher ground, we also need the will and force (be it internal/external) to make the first move.