Can Everyone Lead

Can Everyone Lead
This is a great question for everyone to ask them selves. Hopefully the answer will be a resounding YES, that you have the unique ability to lead, so what next. What areas can you improve on, what can be done better, more efficiently, you get the point. Usually I use myself as an example, without a doubt I know I have the ability to lead, it is something that I never really wanted, somehow through OSMOSIS I usually was labeled to lead in most areas other than Sports. That is a different story all together, the one place where I wanted to lead, my athletic ability did not warrant me leading. Initially I became distraught, since I so wanted to excel and lead in the sports field. Find your area of leadership; mine was more in the business arena, than it was in the athletic field. Find your area of expertise, brand yourself as an expert and people will naturally follow, you will not have to ask.
At first I rebelled against having the moniker of leader, decision maker, but now I relish the ideal of leading. All that said and out of the way, how can I improve as a leader, what areas of leadership can I improve on. Through some harsh critics of my leadership ability I found that my follow up and follow through can be significantly improved. Most of my problems came simply from me over-promising, and under delivering on my promises. Easily fixed most would say, it is if you want to take yourself to the next level. If we are honest with ourselves we know we have these short comings, but we fail to change, we continue to do just enough, well what if you did more than enough what would happen then. I know that if I did just what was expected of me I would be in a lot better situation, sometimes I do and sometimes I do not, but my commitment to all that read this, expect more from not only me but all that come into contact with you and you will see a remarkable improvement in all aspects of your life. Expect the best and it magically happens, no doubts, no reservations, just confidence that whatever it is that you expect should manifest itself.
If not why, what characteristic do I not possess t o make people want to follow me. I hear stories like leaders are born, they have the IT factor, that I do not posses. The IT factor can be obtained through careful study of someone who has the IT factor. Imitation is the biggest form of flattery, I will be honest most of my antidotes, responses are not original, somewhere someone else I listened to or studied, have said it first and probably 10 times better, but that has not stopped me from leading 4 different companies, leading seminars to groups of well over 500. At first, I was afraid, but I did it anyway, dry mouth and all. Here’s a famous quote by Mark Twain “Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. ... Courage is resistance to fear” Stop living in fear, take charge of your life and live it full throttle, stop putting limitations on yourself, try it I talk to people all the time that just put people on a pedestal, like what they are doing can’t be duplicated. Most people are copy cats anyway, think about it if you watch TV all the News Show are the same, now with the advent of reality show they are the same, there really isn’t much under the sun that has not been done before. Acknowledge your fears and do it anyway. I read a quote by Henry Ford founder of Ford Motor, “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do”.
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