Personal leadership is a life style, placing emphasis on people, not just on the bottom line. It comes from a way of thinking and living. It is closely linked with high self-esteem, being connected with your core values and having faith in your unique abilities.
You can always spot them. People who live a personal leadership style are open to change and collaboration. They work with their head and their heart. They are always looking for the win-win and sharing rather than focusing only on the winner-take-all approach. They thrive on synergism and and easily adapt to diversity.
Confidant and with high energy levels that come from positive thoughts and feelings, people with a personal leadership style are all about creating a positive environment for others - constantly striving to reduce fear, increase hope and create spaces of integrity.
Life isn’t about things. Life is about people.
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( 5 / 1 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.It is necessary to run certain risks, to follow certain paths and abandon others. No one can make a choice without facing fear. Paulo Coelho.
In my latest book I recounted the tale about Timothy, a twelve year boy who had had saved up enough money to buy himself a kite:
On an overcast, blustery afternoon he took it to the park. As he ran with it,his arm extended, the cord was so taut that he feared it might tear away from the kite. Slowly ,carefully he let out the string. The kite flew higher and higher until it was out of sight.
A middle-aged man, dressed in a conservative grey suit approached him.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“I’m flying a kite, sir,” Timothy replied.
“Flying a kite? What do you mean? I don’t see a kite. You don’t see a kite.How do you know that there is a kite?”
Gravely Timothy eyed the man.“I know there’s a kite sir, because I can feel it.
In a way life is like that. Like Timothy, when we start out, armed only with a big dream and courage, we jump right it in and just start running. No challenge is too great, no task is too demanding.
That is because working on a dream is a creative process. It’s an attitude, a state of mind. When you’re fully engaged, passionate about whom you are and what you’re doing you don’t see the time. You feel fully alive.
More often than not, though, if you have worked at a dream too long it can become a job. It becomes routine, even boring. Eventually, if you are not careful, you begin to lose your zest for life. The passion is gone. Then one day you find yourself believing that the present is all that there is and you find you are spending the day protecting the safer ground.
The question is how to regain that passion if you’ve lost it. We all have the right to change. Nowhere is it written that you can’t abandon a certain path and begin walking a new one.
It won’t be easy and it’s not for everyone but if you can’t feel the tug anymore and would like to, perhaps it’s time to seriously think about finding a new big dream.
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Every day we hear of someone who started a business in their garage or in a spare room and against all the odds went on to incredible success. If you have a dog, you may know of Roxanne Pettipas. From zero, from scratch she has built a wildly successful, international Canadian business manufacturing leather dog harnesses.
The interesting part of the story is that she didn’t know the first thing about dog harnesses, much less making them. She was a teacher. She had a dog named Buddy.
All she knew was that she wanted to change careers and that Buddy’s collar would choke him when she took him out for a walk.
So she decided to make a harness for him. "I had to learn it all," she said. The rest, as the old saying goes, is history. The first step is always the hardest... you can read all about Roxanne's amazing story and even friend Buddy on his face Book page. That's right. Buddy has his own Face Book page.
If you have been thinking about starting a business and holding back, questioning your own abilities and motivation,read http://blog.bizlaunch.ca/2012/01/28/tur ... -business/
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Contrary to what many may think, accomplishment in any field is not always easy. Whether it is playing the violin, building a business or raising a family there is rarely such a thing as an “overnight success.”However it is measured, success is the result of many attributes and personal values including among others, patience, courage, a riveted focus, an unfailing belief in yourself… and tons of hard work. Malcolm Gladwell suggests that it takes up to 10,000 hours.
To learn more about his views, check out this link to his book,The Outliers.
http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt1.html
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( 3.6 / 11 ) Click a star 1-5, left to right, to rate.The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Chinese proverb.
Every day we are faced a plethora of choices. So many things are up to each one of us now: Who to be, what to do, what line of work to spend our day at, whom to partner with, what to read, what to learn, how to keep growing…
In today’s world it’s all too easy to get caught up in the spin, to lose sight of who we are, who and what is important and who and what really isn’t.
The choices are ours... it's all up to us.
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