Leadership Journal
Encouragement for Soulful Leadership & Life
Prepare To Start Doing Things Before You’re Good At Them
Confidence, skill and capability are hard-earned. They are the result of intentional effort, consistent work and the humility to be unskilled along the way.
Prepare to Believe in Your Dream When Others Don’t
There will be seasons where no one else believes in what you are building, and you will feel it. Prepare for it. Be ready to be your own believer and your own encourager.
Reminder: It Won’t Be Easy
The path toward your dreams will not be smooth. It will be stormy. It will be full of resistance, barriers, detours, and waves of discouragement that come one after another.
Reminder: Failure Is Your Friend
Failure feels uncomfortable, exposing, even a little humiliating. Yet there are some people who seem to be at peace with failure, and even embrace it! Why?
Reminder: Comparison Steers You Off Course
It’s easy to look around and feel like everyone else is further ahead.
But here’s the truth: you cannot run your race well if you are focused on someone else’s.
Reminder: Confidence Is Cultivated
Confidence is not something you are born with. It is something you grow. Confidence is the practice of believing in your ability to learn, grow, and contribute. Confidence is cultivated through action.
Reminder: Self-Doubt Is A Liar
Self-doubt is not a sign that you do not have what it takes. It is a sign that you care deeply and want to succeed. But doubt is not a truth-teller. Doubt grows from fear of failure, fear of discomfort, fear of risk.
How to Become a Great Leader: Keep Learning
Great leaders choose a posture of learning and a way of living that says, I have more to see, more to hear, and more to understand. But this kind of learning is more nuanced than it seems.
How to Become a Great Leader: Honour Your Limits
When leaders honour their limits, teams find synergy, communities grow more genuine, and the work produced carries depth and richness that striving alone could never achieve. That is great leadership.
How to Become a Great Leader: Practice Metacognition
Metacognition is a leadership superpower! It lifts you above the swirl of social dynamics and gives you a higher vantage point. From there, you can see yourself and others more clearly.
How to Become a Great Leader: Define Your Version of a Good Life
A good life is not about having it all. That is a myth. No one has it all. A good life is having what truly matters to you.
Defining your own version of a good life gives the satisfaction of knowing your life aligns with your values, your vision and your unique calling.
How to Become a Great Leader: Work on Your Inner Health
It doesn’t matter what you achieve, how much you accomplish or how many people see you as successful. If your inner self is unhealthy, the rest of your life will eventually come apart. Your world will not hold together.