Leadership, Ideas And Self Image

The Thing With Ideas

When was the last time you had a “wonderful idea” or a “good idea” at least, this morning? yesterday? a week ago? I bet you have many ideas, some of them not so wonderful or good, but you do have lots of ideas. On the other hand, if I ask you: “When was the last time you took action to put that idea in motion?” you’d probably respond with “not so often”.

Fact is, we do have many ideas, and most of the time we think of them like dreams or just visions like “what would it be if…” but the important thing to remember is ideas are just that, images, visions, sounds and tastes that live in our minds until we make the decision to make them true.

Your Self Image

Leadership has to do with your self image, you can not lead, if you don’t see yourself as a leader. We can not become the leaders we want if we don’t have a clear idea of what kind of leader we do want to become. Am I talking about vision here? Yes!! But your vision, your own personal vision of who you want to be. Listen, or better yet, read this:
“Your self image determines what you are and how you perform”.

The Mix

The action you take on your ideas, have a lot to do with your self image, if you think of yourself as someone who can come up with good solutions you’ll bring out more ideas to the table, and you will try to take action on them. On the other hand, if you don’t have a good self image, you won’t be open to share your ideas, nor to take action on them.

Remember, leadership has more to do with attitude than position, so to lead you have to be bold. Yeah! bold, but no arrogancy allowed here, boldness as a virtue. One good way to foster your boldness is to share your ideas, and to take action on them.

Leadership Actions

1. Be Bold, share ideas with the people you trust. And be open to feedback, good and not so good feedback.
2. Be open to hear their ideas as well. That’s the attitude of great people.
3. See?, you’re leading now. You’ve started the idea club with people you trust.
4. Decide what idea is good enough to take action, and jump on it.
5. Keep moving my friend.

Latest News About Leadership

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user 'news'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home/bealeade/public_html/kv_basenews.php on line 9
Error connecting to mysql