You've decided to pursue a new lifestyle, one that leads you to explore your leading the self , develop your personal strengths, and inspire those around you to higher performance. Congratulations! You're in the right place.
This blog post will serve as a guide for you as you establish, and build upon, your personal leadership – the skills, mindset, and behaviors that you use to navigate your life and make your world a better place.
Leading Through Self-awareness
Self-awareness has been referred to as the ‘master key to personal leadership'. What does self-awareness mean? The ability to be fully aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions and their effect on you and those around you.
Self-awareness involves being introspective, analyzing your behaviors, and measuring your effectiveness in relation to a set of criteria. Self-awareness leads you to question whether you are truly making the right decisions for you and your team, your customers, and your community. Self-awareness encourages you to become a better leader and enables you to improve your life and the lives of everyone around you.
You can start to develop your self-awareness through journaling. Simply note your thoughts and feelings as they come to you, without attempting to change or improve them. Over time, you will discover that you can accurately assess your own performance. As you grow your self-awareness, you will gain a much greater ability to lead your life, your company, and your team to success.
Deepening Your Understanding Of Self-leadership
In addition to leading through self-awareness, you can deepen your understanding of self-leadership through a mentor, coach, or trusted adviser. A person who has already navigated the terrain you're about to explore and knows the answers to your questions. Someone who can guide you, challenge you, and encourage you to reach your full potential.
You can also take a digital notebook and jot down your thoughts, ideas, and observations as you develop content for this site. As you note your ideas and insights, they may, in time, become blog posts, articles, or even a e-book that you can offer to your audience.
Self-leadership is a way of life, a mindset, and a set of behaviors that you choose to enact. When you align your motivations, you can become a highly effective leader who inspires those around you to greatness.