Who is a leader? How to become a leader from within?
What do we understand by leadership?
We understand by leadership that someone who is an MD, CEO or head of an organization is known as a leader. Somebody who directs a group of people, who builds a team, who communicates, who instructs, who gives orders is a leader. Coming to the qualities of a leader – a leader is somebody who must have communication skills, who should be ready to take up challenges and the most important quality, he must walk the talk. The leader must be able to delegate authority, empower staff and should be able to lay down the mission.
There are humongous responsibilities on such a small shoulder. Leadership is a very difficult task, because if a leader fails to fulfill the responsibility, people will point towards him or her and ask to pay for being a responsible leader. Thinking about what people will point towards us and working according to them, apart from us far away from our self and we cannot live a life of our own. And the entire life that we have, we spend it on keeping on working as a leader because we have the image to be lived up to.
But what about ourselves from within?
Does the leader himself or herself know what he or she is made up of? Right from the time we are born, we are being told what to do, how to do, how to behave, what to wear, what to speak, how to speak, etc. and then there are many people who keep creating labels for us. For example, people may say that you’re a good speaker or you’re not a good artist, etc. they judge us from all the aspects and put multiple labels on us. We cannot even imagine that we’re just being in the center and there are all labels around us. And because of all this, we lose our originality.
How do we break from these shackles?
Today we are working in 25% of our capacities because we are treated as labels and images. We are working as the identity which people have created, and not as our true self.
Can we look from within and say to ourselves that we are directors of our own life? No! Every human being born here; has the RIGHT and WILL and MUST direct his own life. We surely have producers as our parents but these producers have been chosen by us, and that is reality. Our parents are chosen by us when we were born. And today if we can choose our own producers, can’t we also direct our own lives? We surely need to start directing our own lives. It is never too late!
How to start being a leader from within?
It is very simple to start being a leader from within. Look at yourself, look at your own aspirations, desires; look at what you are, find out from within what your true potential is and then you will see what energy that flows in, you will realize what productivity you can give. You will understand how rich and fertile your life is. Let us begin together, exploring from within.