Leaders Decide and Act
Clarity, Confidence, and Personal Power are Ours
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No person or circumstance can gift us peace, confidence, fitness, or personal power.
We can ace a test, make a touchdown, earn a degree, land a choice job, etc.. but foundational ways of being such as clarity, confidence, and the efficacy to make things happen don’t come from titles, and they don’t come from external events or sources.
Clarity, confidence, and efficacy are the result of our choices — they come from within.
Designing & Leading
Leaders are not people who close their eyes and ears thinking they know everything. Leaders are not people who stick to their guns while the world changes around them. Leaders are learners. They are open students of what positively serves, of what works.
True leadership is humble and focused on serving, and making things happen. True leaders are people open to learning from every person and every experience. True leaders don’t seek to be right. True leaders seek wisdom. EACH OF US HAS THE CAPACITY TO LEAD. In fact, we are called to lead at various levels EVERY DAY in the office, our neighborhoods, families, classrooms, communities, and in our own lives. The good news and bottom line is that we can change our lives for the better in any given moment. To do so, we must be serious, decisive, and committed to act.
What does it mean to be serious? Seriousness means taking full responsibility for ourselves. Taking responsibility for our focus, words, and actions helps us align ourselves with priorities. Taking responsibility for ourselves is an all-around WIN as it increases trust, influence, personal growth, and connection to self and others. If we want to design and lead our lives, we must take responsibility and commit to making positive bit-by-bit incremental change.
Responsibility and Acting Are Key
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Ready to actually change?
Real change requires that we take responsibility, decide and act. It requires that we act like our lives depend on taking responsibility for ourselves, for others, and for positive growth. The rewards that await us are great, but not without bumps. Our comfort zone will protest and perhaps even our friends, coworkers and family. Change isn’t easy, but evolving and actively pursuing an expansive life feels great, lightens our load of obstacles and naysayers, and is great fun.
So let’s get started! The time is now.
Start pursuing the compelling future you envision by making some changes. There are ten steps anyone can accomplish that will help us in to own our mindset, our health, relationships, career path, peace, and purpose. These steps will help move us from bystanders to people who clear a path and find a way. Innovation 1 is outlined below.
10 Innovations for Clarity & Confidence
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Innovation 1: Greet the morning.
Upon waking, extend your arms over your head while sitting or standing. Greet the morning as you stretch and breath and proclaim that today will be a good day.
Greet the Morning is about gratitude, focus, and setting positive expectation.
Greet the Morning is about opportunity-thinking and gladness.
Finally, Greet the Morning is about talking to yourself as friend and to the world as a friend, not as an annoyance or an enemy.
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Starting the day from a disposition of welcome and peace benefits our emotional and physical health in numerous ways. When we are at peace, we feel an equilibrium about ourselves and the world. We are more relaxed, see opportunities rather than obstacles, and our outlook brightens. Research suggests that operating from a disposition of peace also serves us in our personal and professional relationships, aiding us in being measured and clear with others when it is time to do so.
Innovation 1 is Greet the Morning. Take time each day for breath. Be grateful for what is good. Stand tall and acknowledge the good to be found in the day before you. With this small change, you’re on your way to increased clarity, confidence, and self-efficacy.