Did you know that in order to become a leader in a company you first have to poses Self Leadership?
According to a study, there are five different domains of leadership, which are:
• Self-leadership
• Leading other people
• Leading a group
• Head a business or organization
• Head the nation
We of course have to start with leading ourselves before we progress to heading people or a business.
So let’s look in to how we can create Self Leadership for ourselves. To make it even easier to remember, we will only focus on the main 5 rules for Self Leadership.
1. Be Honest to ourselves. Being honest allows us to understand that we can focus on our strength to achieve our goals and work on the improvement needed. Only by being honest to ourselves, we can overcome the root cause that is setting us back. Nobody needs to know the lists, its ours to say and ours to keep, nevertheless it’s also ours to action upon.
2. Set Goals. Professional and Personal goals. Write them down and focus on these goals no matter what distraction we may come across, discipline ourselves on focusing to the big picture. See obstacle only as a detour from achieving the goals and see detour as a valuable experience maturing ourselves as we accomplish the goals.
3. Be a Learner with high Curiosity. Surround ourselves with mentors and people who can contribute values to our life. We, human learn faster and more effectively by role modeling and being inspired by actions/ success stories therefore keep these people close by.
4. Have a Zero tolerance for Negativity. Stay away from those that only bring negativity to our lives. Negativity can be disguised as friendly and fun chit chats amongst friends. It is us and only us to determine what is worth our time and energy. Break away from this, even if it means loosing the group. Which is more important, our well being or the groups well being? They can survive without us. Be the agent of Optimism, first to ourselves.
5. Stay 100% Humble and practice daily what we believe in. Live our life steps as we would like it to be in many years to come, better yet, leave footprints so that our daily existence can matter to someone, somehow.
Self leadership is as simple as understanding who we are as a person and work on what we would like to see ourselves become/ achieve, be it short term, long term and legacy wise.
Self Leadership is the most basic leadership we first must master. After all who would like to be lead by someone who can’t lead themselves? Happy Leading to all
