Exceptional Leadership Starts With Self
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it.”
It’s the possibility that a dream might come true that makes life interesting. Whether you are creating or re-affirming dreams, or setting the path forward for the coming year, you have experienced moments when things “just go your way.” These wonderful events tend to occur when you have a “calm mind.” A mind free from negative emotions; stress, anger, frustration, resentment, envy, etc. A calm mind is your greatest resource and thereby a greater resource for others. As leaders, teachers, mentors, and guides, you are always a resource for the success and prosperity of those around you. Success comes most easily to those with the calm mind that clearly sees the opportunities presented. In all cases, those opportunities come through your healthy relationships.
Ask yourself; How calm is your mind? Can you see the path forward?
Those who lead an interesting life see situations for what they are and not what they hope they are. They walk their path free of the distractions of stress and frustration. When you build relationships of trust and know your course, there is no holding back your river and course.
When you decide to move forward and solve a challenge it is only the beginning of things. When you know there is no going back, you embrace the best way of moving forward. To accomplish the goals you set, you must focus on the moment you are living right now and take in all you observe for the situational awareness required for optimal decision making. If you pay attention to the present you can improve upon it, then all that comes later will be better too.
Ask yourself; Are you present? Do you know your course? Do you have the relationships to move forward?
You don’t need to fear the unknown if you know how to achieve what you need. Focus on the moment you are living right now. Seek out objective loving council, because their eyes have not become accustomed to what they see every day like yours have. When you love, you strive to become better than you are. The first challenge is to love yourself, and you can only do that when you let go of your shame of not being perfect. You are harder on yourself than those around you are. You can be infinitely compassionate towards others, but a cruel critic of yourself and it all begins with your own shame. You tend to feel shame when you fall short of your expectations of perfection. Ironically, no one else ever expects perfection; they look for effort. You play a central role of the history of the world and don’t know it. Be an exceptional leader of yourself and others, invoke what is already known and bring it out.
