Personal Leadership

One of the things that keeps us going in life is the dreams, goals vision we have for our future. When we get up each day our mandate is to work towards achieving those goals and turning your dreams into reality. I encourage you to dream big and set big encouraging goals. Take time to imagine, yes just visualize what you want in your life. It’s pretty amazing right!. The imagining/ dreaming stage is important because it shows you the direction in which you should take. Dreaming alone will not get you to your desired destination unless you are Cinderella, the fairy godmother will just wave her wand at you haha. Anyway, to achieve your dreams and goals, you will need personal leadership to get you there. It’s much easier to have external forces cheering you on and motivating you but having the ability to lead yourself can get you far ahead in achieving your goals and in your personal growth journey.

Leadership, in general, is the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a common goal. Some also describe it as a process of social influence which maximizes the efforts of others towards the achievement of a certain goal. John Maxwell says, leadership is simply influence. Most of us are quick to want to become leaders, we associate leadership with position. You can have the position and not be a leader. That is a wrong mentality of leadership and it is usually the root cause of failure in many organizations and companies. How do you expect to lead a group of a hundred even thousands of people when you can’t even follow yourself. Always start by leading yourself. John C. Maxwell says a good leader is one who knows the way, shows the way goes the way and shows the way. He says many leaders are now like travel agents they take people where they have never been. To become influential you have to first influence yourself like Gandhi said “ I must first become the change I want to see in others”.

Personal Leadership is not only necessary when you want to lead an organization/ company. You need to lead yourself to achieve your goals and making your dreams a reality.

Personal Leadership

Joel Farcht defines personal leadership as; the self-confident ability to crystalize your thinking and establish an exact direction for your own life, to commit yourself to moving in the right direction, and then take the determined action to acquire, accomplish or become whatever you identify as the ultimate goal in your life
Having the ability to define and take yourself to your desired destination without relying on an outward push but self- discipline.

The above definitions you can tell that personal leadership is largely related to proactivity and taking 100% responsibility of your life. You have to own your life to lead your life. The first step to developing personal leadership is to own your life, where you are, the mistakes and achievements you made. After that, you can use your leadership skills to push yourself to where you want to be. To be honest, if you wait for someone to do it for you, no doubt you will live an average life.

When you want to successfully lead yourself these are my go tos

You got to have a:

Vision ( A clear picture of where you are leading yourself to)
Strategy ( Plan – How are you going to get there)
Mission Statement
Self – discipline ( Are you using your time wisely)

Teach yourself not to rely on external forces to achieve your dreams because that is just applying for disappointment. Develop your personal leadership skills from within and you will see the results manifesting outwardly in every area of your life, health relationship finances spiritual etc.

Personal leadership is a great part of your personal development journey. Remember I am cheering you on go and Do Life Big!!!