Sleep is such a great healer...it washes away all the negativity of the day and when you wake up in the morning your head is cleared and its a new day again.
It's about living in hope...a knowing inside you that you can make a difference. This is what drives a leader to wake up in the morning and start again. The purpose is way bigger than anything else , enough to inspire the leader into action , which in turn inspires others that the leader comes in contact with.
What i look for in a leader is congruence, he or she needs to be aligned with what they say and do. They need to be aligned to their purpose and live it most of the time. We cant always be aligned, infact it is my belief that going out of alignment is part of the process of being aligned to our purpose because it marks out clearly what is truly important to us..... We dont need to be perfect as we all have lessons to learn, we just need to accept and acknowledge when we go out of alignment, and adjust the route we are taking to come back into purpose/alignment.
Looking for perfection is a waste of time .... if we were perfect, then its time for us to die... what's the point of living in the planet if we have nothing to work on. The need for perfection stems from the need to look good and not make mistakes. Fear of making mistakes to me demonstrates a fear of learning.
And yet as leaders, how do we react to mistakes? How do we model to others that its ok to take responsibility for our mistakes and learn from it?
How we respond to mistakes is a product of our upbringing. I have a belief that when I employ someone, I am also employing the rest of their family members ( the ones who are alive and dead!...yes including their great grand father!!!) This is because beliefs are handed down generation to generation, even if we consciously choose to not carry some of those beliefs, we need to vigilant and awake to the thoughts behind our auto responses. Its actually quite simple I learnt with NLP to pay special attention to any thought that pops up in my head that includes words like "should" "have" or "must" because they are "rules" that we have learnt. Then I ask " according to whom?" I dont think I had a single original thought, most of them were hand me downs.
Its about how we apply the knowledge we acquire, this part is our own personal journey. The leader has to make sense of this and be very aware of the fact that there are many other people within the his or her circle of influence - that he / she is influencing consciously or unconsciously. To me its about choosng to be awake to the power we hold but its also about giving ourselves enough time to heal from our battlewounds from being a corporate warrior and standing up for our beliefs. If we dont, we tend to spread negativity, the work world doesnt need anymore. We have to face each new day with Hope.
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