Personal Leadership

Are you in a constant state of frustration and feel your stomach is in a knot every time you think of your responsibilities and duties at work?

You are efficient and skilled at what you do, but is there a lack of motivation and passion in what you do?

Would you be found doing anything else than what you are doing now?

Is it possibly because you are an efficient manager of your personal life but what you actually need is personal leadership of your life?

What do I mean?

Management tends to focus on how things are done.

How I can better accomplish what I do?

How can I expend an efficient amount of energy to fulfil my tasks and accomplish my managerial objectives? Even personally, we manage our budgets and our relationships and our time.

But have you considered that personal leadership is about purpose, about vision, about direction.

You need first a personal leadership of your life.

Are you in the right field?

Do your values align with the organisational ones?

Do you even know and have you written out your values, what is important to you?

Are you content with the direction you have chosen for your life?

Survival, and especially in this economic environment, your sanity, does not depend just on applying yourself efficiently to accomplish your goals, working harder, but knowing whether the track or path you find yourself on is headed in the right direction.

Often we are so busy making a lifestyle we are not aware of the fact we may not even have a life.

Personal leadership is critical in this rapidly changing environment we find ourselves in today. We need vision and a purposeful direction for our lives that motivates and inspires; a motivation that takes us into the destiny we know should be ours.

A strategic plan will deal with your deepest belief systems, values and strengths and weaknesses. It’s the essence of your deepest desires and passions. It sets the pace of what your future and destiny should and would be.

Management of your life cannot start without a personal leadership strategic plan that sets you on the course of purpose. Many are trying to manage the elements of their lives with frustration and pressures simply because they are managing what they do not believe in and don’t want for their lives. Many are purely in a crisis mode simply because they are in the wrong field trying to ‘fix’ things that never were supposed to be there in the first place.

But if we are caught in a mindset of 'fix-it', we never see the need to develop our leadership; we just do not have time. I cannot tell you how many individuals I have spoken to over the years that are caught in a management-by-crisis mindset, unable to make out the proverbial 'wood for the trees', but do not have ‘time’ to design and evaluate a leadership plan for their lives, of course, it becomes a situation where they are polishing brass on a sinking ship. They never take charge of their lives and never experience the freedom, the quality of life that comes with having and operating according to personal strategic leadership plan for their lives.

Stop! Take out time with a facilitator to begin to review your career, your relationships and your personal foundation to begin to unfold a personal leadership strategy that will highlight who you are, why you are, and where you are and where you want to be and how to get there. Think leadership first and then you can manage the right elements in the right places.