Are you a leader in your life Leadership isn’t just about making bold Moves In The Boardroom okay you might have a vision for your financial goals your mental and physical health your relationships your education and just your overall lifestyle but that doesn’t make you a leader you’re a leader. when you make decisions that help you to realize those Visions a bad leader tries to avoid stepping on toes and forgets the bigger picture a good leader walks right through those tough times.
If you’re making the wrong decisions then you’re not the one leading your own life you’re following and why on Earth are you doing that do you even know who you’re following to see where you’re going wrong and right you can look at some of the best leaders in the world and learn from the difficult decisions they had to make at some point in your life you’ll be faced with these dilemmas too so the question is will you lead or will you fall let’s get to it
Choosing What to Neglect – For Now:
Number one choosing what to neglect for now when Bill Gates was growing Microsoft he sacrificed a lot of his personal life he tells stories of having no weekends or vacations and if you want to build something that matters you need to be willing to give up on some things you’re depriving yourself for something greater in the future can you do it
because you can’t give 100% of your effort and attention to all of the parts of your life you need to be strategic about.
Where you direct your energy and for how long you need to keep it focused on that area so many people try to make a major life change while giving the same amount of energy to everything else in their life but look okay you cannot do that you Aim and then you withdraw slightly and aim somewhere else and you keep doing that until everything moves forward step by step number two letting
Letting Go of People You Like for the Good of the Mission:
Go of people you like for the good of the mission there’s an African proverb that says to go fast go alone to go far go together but make sure those you go with are the right people now this one might be the toughest decision on our list especially when you’re trying to take the lead in your personal life it’s really hard at a company too where people depend on you and they have homes and families and plans for the future the guilt of letting them go for the good of the mission can eat you up inside.
When it comes to your personal life you don’t just feel guilty you also feel grief when you have to decide to let someone go in your life because they’re not doing the work for both of you to thrive you’re also removing them from your future and changing all of your life plans to fit your new situation it takes a long time for you to understand how important the mission your life goals and values are and just how much someone else can hold you back from reaching them so so as so as letting them go is know that it’s taken all the strength you can muster and things can only go up from here to be a great leader in any part of your life you need to remember that your obligation is always to your mission not to any individual
Embracing Radical Change When Everything Seems “Good Enough”:
Person number three embracing radical change when everything seems good enough this study by consulting company McKenzie and Co. shows just how much true Innovative leaders outperform those who favor stability if you want results you have to embrace radical change in your life you have to innovate especially when there’s order and stability and everything is going well the order is always going to lead to the chaos you can never rest even when things seem good.
Because then the chaos will creep on up and you won’t be prepared to confront it if your life is stable right now it’s time to make a change brings some chaos yes but at least you’ve got some control over it as difficult as change might be stagnation is way worse it’s the first step toward destruction good leaders know that stability will eventually lead to stagnation.
If they don’t throw a spanner into the works themselves so if there’s a part of your life that’s going well see what kind of small controlled changes you can make to it now that doesn’t mean you should innovate every part of your life all the time which brings us to our next Point
Choosing Between Innovation and Stability:
How much should you innovate?
Keep chopping and changing parts of your life the companies that innovate the best also keep some core stability in some areas while they’re pushing for innovation in others so if you’ve been following the same routines in different parts of your life for months and years maybe and they’ve worked for you then should you choose to change it what good would that do well businesses always have to chop and change between Innovation and stability it’s a matter of when not if Innovation is exciting.
But it comes with risks financial and otherwise, stability feels safe but it can land you in a rut the hard part is finding that balance and knowing when to lean into one or the other only you will know the answer for that in your situation the best leaders are the ones who manage to walk this line they’re able to protect their assets and open up new opportunities.
Choosing Long-Term Vision Over Short-Term Gains:
Growth number five choosing long-term Vision over short-term gains you have to think of your life in decades not just in quarters and if you’re not well then you’ll end up with a future with no idea how you got there and utterly confused about why you haven’t reached your goals Harvard Business Review says that as a true leader, you have to set sacrifice the comfort you get from immediate rewards in favor of going after compounding long-term value your job as a leader is to create an exciting unified long-term vision and it can be a tricky balance to hold especially when life comes flying at you and that’s exactly.
Why do we create an app that can support you with this balance we couldn’t find anything like it on the market that kept you accountable with your goals something that you could build into a routine and covered all the main cornerstones of achievement knowledge and education action plans and tools and an ability to measure your progress so anyways if you can’t find it you build it right and that is exactly what we did and you know what we’re pretty proud of it so stick around until the end of the video.
Because we’ve got a little App gift for you that we think you’ll like now as for focusing on your long-term Vision instead of your short-term goals you kind of have to force yourself to learn how to switch the joy around when you imagine your vision you should get that burst of excitement you would usually get from achieving a goal and when you achieve a goal you have to imagine that you found another piece of the puzzle that you can slot into that bigger picture.
It’s part of an unfinished puzzle you have to keep on going you don’t have to stick to it forever but you have to train yourself to be able to do it when you need to like if you’re always giving in that yearly trip abroad with your friends and digging into your savings for it you’re never going to learn so ask yourself am I willing to trade great memories for an uncertain and unstable future every single year because my friend some trades aren’t worth