Developing self leadership to express your full potential
Self leadership is one of the hot topics I read around, but what is it and why is it so important today?
In the historical moment we are living, characterized by high complexity and variability, self leadership is one of the best assets you can have to flourish and not allow your life to be in the hands of others.
Self leadership is being able to walk in the direction you want by making your life reflect who you are and what you believe in.
And if we think about a higher perspective, if we think about you in your ecosystem, self leadership represents a catalyst capable of promoting or accelerating incredible positive reactions around you.
Self leadership is not an abstract concept at all, because it has an impact on your actions, personal and professional priorities, agenda and what makes your daily life.
I’ll tell you the story of Luisa (the story is real, the name is not).
She is an amazing woman, she is stubborn, carries things forward with determination, believes in the value of what she does, dedicates time and energy to its evolution by working on multiple levels because she knows that this space will make a difference in what she gets too.
Luisa started the CORE² path because she wanted more, not because she had to solve wrong things. What she wanted to achieve was to be even more effective, even more impactful. What she had noticed in her trajectory was that curiosity towards new things which represented one of her strongest drives, at the same time made her lose focus and led her to disperse energy, slowing down what she wanted to achieve. She also knew that what attracted her, while seeming distant, had something in common, her difficulty was in connecting the dots!
What she found so useful was a space that worked as a mirror to distill the deeper elements that made her who she was and, based on this ever changing photograph, being able to identify what was aligned with her and what wasn’t. Having in front of her the Work-System canvas was always fun and it made her surprised to see how step by step it looked more and more like her, more than what sometimes she herself was able to focus initially.
But what she discovered on her skin is that having a clear vision of who you are is not enough to express your potential and be able to contribute to your ecosystem. Constancy and discipline, identifying what you want to achieve, iteratively getting there through rhythmic and specific goals that lead you where to put your focus step by step, this makes the difference!
At the beginning it was stressful for Luisa to choose goals on the basis of what she knew at that moment, even when I told her that they were only linked to a specific time, the goals weren’t written in stone , they would change over time.
It took deep trust to be able to digest a system that adapts and follows you, because the way Luisa was educated and raised taught her that things don’t work like that!
What she learnt is that goals can change (and many times they have to change!) during your path, as the result of a new awareness that enables you to see better what is around and therefore be able to make more “right” choices for you in that specific moment.
Being able to read your trajectory and direction is part of self leadership, because it’s strongly based on who you are and on your capacity to leverage tools and personal assets. Acquiring a practical and rigorous method to guide your professional development is an enabler to be focused and determined, not rigid and closed on your vision of the world.
It means accepting to have a role in enlightening others around you because the will to make an impact is contagious!
If you want to know more about the CORE² Method, here some usefull link: core2method.com
