Leadership as a Novel Notion, Part II
I recently wrote a piece on leadership in my past tense, noting how I need to show up as all of me. Rather, I feel the call to bring the whole of myself to leadership as opposed to the 110% game — holistic rather than overdrive.
Can you relate?
Maybe it’s age, maybe it’s the time we’re living in, but I know it’s time to be invested if I’m going down this road. I feel this way in all things. Perhaps it’s because I was once one of the many people who struggled with making commitments and keeping them. I feared success and became my own self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. Yet failure is a great teacher, especially when you flip the script and fail because you’re out there trying new things. Trying new ways to be. Trying to evolve.
The question is this: who are you attempting to lead?
If you’re being a leader to others in an office or leading your children, you’re always leading by example. The times when you think no one is watching or no one will remember are key moments. It’s all about the little things. It’s the little things we remember the very most over time; it’s the little things that make up a whole person.
We can do this for ourselves, too.
There are several schools of thought out there in the world that subscribe to becoming who we want to be…
