Tag: Responsibility

How To Reset Your Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

If you don’t like what is going on in your life, it is your responsibility to look within you. Do not blame it on others. Do not blame it on your family people. Yes, where we are can affect how we do things in life.

But we are responsible for what we do, what we think, and how we feel.

If you do not like your life, reset it.

If you do not like your work, reset it.

If you do not like where your life is going, reset it.

Because life is about starting again. To start again is to hit the reset button. To hit the reset button is to wake up.

Reset means doing something again. Trying something again.

Stuck means staying where you are. Not trying anything at all. Not growing at all. Just doing the same thing every day.

To hit your own reset button, don’t live in your past. Because ‘the past cannot tell you who you are, but it can give you clues about which future will provide you with the most freedom to be entirely yourself.’

When you hit your own reset button, you can learn from your past, but do not stay there.

Share your passion with people who can help you. Do not share your dreams with dream killers. And be willing to learn from your supporters.

Because ‘when you share passion, play together, and are vulnerable in your conversations, you you get to know each other in a way that isn’t otherwise possible. You build bonds of trust, and you want to do more together because it makes you feel more alive. … together, you can take more risks that wouldn’t be possible alone, because you each bring your best to the process.’

Do not waste your time. Remember, you are starting again. You are restarting your life, your success engine. Be with people who are pursuing what you are going after.

‘When you make genuine connections with like-minded people, those connections often develop into honest, authentic relationships, and magic can happen.’

The question is, ‘Are you making the right connections with the right people?’ If you are, keep on keeping on!

Source:

Gezim Gashi (2021). Unlocked: the power of YOU

How Authentic Leaders Lead

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

We need great leaders. We need them because they know how to lead people. Above all, they know how to lead themselves.

According to Gareth Chick, ‘A leader takes an community outside its collective comfort zone, and makes the journey exciting, not frightening.’

Real leaders ask real, tough questions. They ‘… ask themselves one overriding question when posed a problem by another person- ‘What does this person need from me right here, right now?’ And they make things happpen. They are authentic. When they say something, they don’t play with what they say they will do.

And they are not afraid to say, I don’t know what you are talking about.’ They are not afraid to admit what they don’t know.

Because they know that when you admit what you do not know, you are willing to learn.

They ‘subordinate themselves to the cause and to the responsibility they’ve accepted– not in a way that excludes or overrides family, friends or external interests, but in a way that overrides their ego and immediate self-interest.’

‘Authentic leaders see possibilities that others do not see, or do not want to see, and have a knowing and a belief that is seemingly unshakeable.’

‘Authentic leaders ask people to things and achieve things that they do not know how to do themselves; that may even seem impossible or ‘beyond reason.’

‘Authentic leaders constantly hector people with the purpose and the vision and are overt and passionate living examples of the values.’

‘Authentic leaders touch people emotionally, sharing intimate moments of joy and elation as they inspire others to go beyond their wildest dreams of performance.’

‘Authentic leaders put themselves forward as the public face and voice of the mission and the message, and allow themselves to be the embodiment, at times the icon if appropriate, of the cause.’

They are not leading to make themselves bigger than others. They are leading to make the world a better place.

If you want to lead, you must be in it for others, not for yourself.

As always, you are more, not less!

Source:

Gareth Chick (2019). And The Leader Is … : Transforming Cultures with CEQ