Leadership Means Doing What You Know You Need To Do
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
No, this post is not about how to be a revolutionary and change the world for the better, but certainly you could apply this concept to making a difference in the world. This post is about how you can be a leader in your life, and lead yourself in the direction you want to go.
If you want to have a certain kind of life, or to make change in something you are a part of, you need to be that change. You can’t be a hypocrite, or else any change will not be long lasting. In a business environment this means that you need to act as someone who has already achieved what you want. Being successful won’t make you become the person you want to be, rather becoming the person you want to be will bring you the success.
I have some pretty lofty goals/dreams in my life. I want business success, I want to be successful in the film industry, I’d love to be a world champion badminton player (yes, badminton), and more. Will I achieve these things? Possibly, but I’ll need to make some major changes in myself first. This blog is part of that in fact. It’s a means to keep myself accountable to my dreams. I need to work consistently towards my goals, just envisioning them won’t make them happen, whereas constant and incremental actions will.
If you were to outline a list of actions to take that would make the achievement of your goals an inevitability, would you be disciplined enough to stay on course? Or would you make compromises along the way? Perhaps you could write some compromises into that plan along the way to make it more realistic. You don’t need to be the world’s most hardest working person to achieve great things, but you also can’t just sit on your butt. Like I said before, all you need to do is to make constant and incremental improvements towards a desired outcome.
Lead yourself towards your dreams, and that means doing what you know you need to do. Do it now!