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Leaders who seek discomfort are seeking a challenge, opportunities for change, overcoming fears, for personal growth and improvement.
Below are five essentials skills for leaders to acquire to seek discomfort.
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Resetting is also an opportunity to shift perspective, to see things with new eyes, to take things with a grain of salt, to get a fresh start, to pivot into something you’ve always wanted to do or be.
Resetting does not necessarily mean starting over.
It means what was once a problem no longer is to you, whether the problem is existant or non existant.
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Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2023 There are many lies that stand at the basis of our insecurities and that are stopping us from becoming who we really want to become…
We always think that the grass is always greener on the other side.
However, this is not always true and we must figure out what makes us feel good or what feeds our spirit and do these things.
Procrastination is like breaking a promise to yourself.
The key to overcoming procrastination is to:
In Society, we constantly feel the need to prove our worth. That desire to prove ourselves and feel good enough translates itself negatively into different areas of our lives.
To overcome the need to prove yourself, you can always:
We often feel the compulsive need to judge and compete with others. It becomes imperative to:
“When it comes to your dreams, no is not an answer”. No is not the final answer.
Therefore, it requires strength to:
We often feel like we haven’t achieved what we have set out to achieve fast enough.
But there is no need to worry because our goals don’t have expiration dates.
Society lies to us and tells us that we have to fit a specific mould to exist.
The truth is there isn’t only one right way to exist.
In Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be, Rachel Hollis, in a witty and self-deprecating fashion, dispels the lies perpetrated by Society — lies that we tend to believe about ourselves and accept as a fundamental truth.
After a while, these lies destroy our self worth because we find it hard to live up to the lies that Society projects when it comes to self image, relationship to others, goal accomplishment, self care, and career success.
Rachel Hollis shares her life story and perspective on why people are generally unhappy and unsuccessful.
Girl, Wash Your Face: Stop Believing the Lies About Who You Are So You Can Become Who You Were Meant to Be is dedicated to women who have struggled to find themselves or face the truth about themselves. It deals with all the insecurities that women may face throughout their lives and gives solutions that can be implemented through introspection.
Implementing change isn’t easy: it will take time and hard work, several trials and errors. But, it will be worth it!
You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are.
Judging is still one of the most hurtful, spiteful impulses we own, and our judgments keep us from building a stronger tribe… or from having a tribe in the first place. Our judgment prohibits us from beautiful, life-affirming friendships. Our judgment keeps us from connecting in deeper, richer ways because we’re too stuck on the surface level assumptions we’ve made.
The first step toward becoming the best version of yourself is being honest, truly honest, about what makes you tick.
Truly, I’ve been told no in so many different ways and by so many different people that sometimes it seems as if life itself is saying no. I am an expert in rejection—or more specifically, I am an expert in bouncing back from rejection and fighting my way toward my goal.
I am successful because I refused to take no for an answer. I am successful because I have never once believed my dreams were someone else’s to manage. That’s the incredible part about your dreams: nobody gets to tell you how big they can be.
There are many types of trauma—big, small, childhood, adult—but we all belong to a club we never asked to join. We find solidarity in numbers, in hearing other stories…
There isn’t one right way to be a woman. There isn’t one right way to be a daughter, friend, boss, wife, mother, or whatever else you categorize yourself as. There are so many different versions of each and every style on this planet, and beauty lives in that dichotomy.
Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2021 Your Best Self is unique, positive, evolved and aligned with your truth.
When you are being your best self, you are being your most authentic and at your core.
Connecting with your Best Self takes time and requires patience. To get in touch with your Best Self:
“SPHERES stands for Social life, Personal life, Health, Education, Relationships, Employment, and Spiritual life”.
The SPHERES tool, create by Mike Bayer, is a screening tool used to assess your Best Self in all areas of your life.
In the SPHERES tool, your social situation determines how well you project your Best Self to the world.
It then becomes imperative to analyze how you interact with people. You can also assess your ability to send clear messages, to listen to others, to embrace human emotions, to handle highly charged situations, to give and receive feedback.
Your personal life contains your self-image, your self-talk, the level of compassion and respect you have for yourself.
To create the personal life that you want, you will have to:
Prioritizing your well-being allows you to be present, keep a clear mind and achieve your Best Self.
Remaining in a “lifetime learning mode” will help you evolve into your Best Self and become more self-aware.
Once you find your passions, you will take pleasure in acquiring knowledge in that field.
Your relationships reflect who you are as a person.
Your Best Self will gauge who you want to be around, judge the health of a relationship and help you make the tough decisions.
In order to stay connected to your Best Self in all relationships, you must define your core values, exercise them and identify the people who live up to them.
We spend most of our days at work.
So, when we are not able to fully be ourselves, our work life tends to become draining.
It somehow becomes important to nurture our Best Selves at work or create a career path that allows us to maximize our potential at work.
In Best Self: Be You, Only Better, Mike Bayer shares tips and tools to help you achieve your Best Self. He helps you make a diagnostic of all the aspects of your life and provides practical solutions to your problems.
Furthermore, Best Self: Be You, Only Better is a workbook that teaches you how to fix what’s inside to fix outside. It is on point when it comes to assessing people’s behavior and can conveniently be revisited several time in your life.
Best Self: Be You, Only Better is ideal for leaders who want to improve their leadership skills and bring their best selves at work. It becomes clear that if you are your best self, you can create the best teams, take care of others and create the best organization.
With this workbook:
Many of society’s “rules” simply don’t apply to us as individuals, and if we spend all our energy on trying to be, do, say, and act like society wants us to, we are simply wasting time we could be spending on discovering and connecting with our Best Self.
Self-care is foundational to living your ideal life.
Indeed, a lot has happened.
For the most part, a pandemic is still being dealt with, social constructs have been thoroughly questioned, and people have globally been demanding change.
Even though change has never been easy to implement, things are slowly changing for the better.
Here are the 10 best quotes to help you operate change within yourself.
Change is difficult to implement and change first starts within ourselves.
Always remember this:
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There are a few women in positions of power but those few have been selfless, have created movements, and have tremendously impacted History.
These women have had different stories and have impacted society differently but they all created movements, have faced adversity, and broken the traditional rules of a male-dominated society.
Indeed, these women were not afraid of thinking or acting differently, being catalysts for change, bringing distinct perspectives and leadership styles to the table.
They have proven, more than necessary, that leadership has nothing to do with gender.
In no particular order of importance, you will find below a short profile of 5 remarkable women, promoting change around the world.
Michelle Obama is a Princeton graduate, lawyer and writer of Becoming.
Michelle Obama is also the wife of the 44th President Of The United States Barack Obama. She is the first Black First Lady Of The United States.
Throughout the presidency of the 44th President, Michelle Obama wrote and gave several heartfelt speeches. She initiated several campaigns against Youth obesity with the Let’s Move! Movement in 2010 and acted for the Red Cross in Haiti in 2010.
Her latest speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention revolutionized the role of the First Ladies in the White House and have demonstrated her level of influence.
Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza & Opal Tometi were all involved in social works when they came together to create the Black Lives Matter Movement.
After the unwarranted death of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza & Opal Tometi wanted to give people the tools to fight for human rights, black rights and to generate change.
The Black Lives Matter Movement campaigns against systemic racism, injustice and violence inflicted on Black People. This movement also militates against police brutality, against the lack of empathy and accountability of the American oppressive system.
Tarana Burke is an activist and founder of Just Be Inc., focusing on the health and well-being of young women of color.
Tanaka Burke created the nonprofit organization Just Be Inc. to help women to speak up and stand up for themselves. From there, she started the Me Too Movement to help women victims of sexual harassment and assault.
The phrase Me Too took on a broader meaning after the H. Weinstein cases in Hollywood.
With the phrase Me Too, women around the world have been able to share their stories and tell others that they are not alone.
Angela Merkel is the Chancellor of Germany and Forbes 2020 most powerful woman in the world.
Throughout her political career, Angela Merkel has adopted an analytical, quiet and confident leadership style.
Angela Merkel has commanded respect for several years for her ability to run a healthy economy and to render Germany competitive.
Margaret Thatcher, also known as the Iron Lady, is Britain’s first Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher served her country from 1979 to 1990 and introduced the United Kingdom to her conservative politics.
Her strong opinions generated both hate and admiration among her peers.
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Despite efforts to maintain the status quo and biases keeping women and minorities out of certain spheres of influence, women are rapidly climbing the leadership ladder.
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The culture of the company affects every level of the company and determines:
A highly performing company culture increases engagement, retains good employees, satisfies their customers and has better results than any other company.
That is why leaders have to hold themselves to very high standards and realize how much their behavior impacts their workplace.
Leaders have to purposefully create and maintain a healthy workplace culture.
However, they must first be a living model for the culture that they want.
Leaders must take a good look at themselves when assessing the state of the culture: if the culture is unhealthy, then the leadership is unhealthy.
Leaders must clearly define their purpose, personal mission statement and the vision for your company.
Building a high performance culture is subjective to the leader. It is important for leaders to have an initial idea of who they are, what they want and where they are going before they start hiring.
Core values are fundamentals beliefs, a set of principles that leaders follow and that guide then through life.
For example, a company can be based on the core value of radical honesty. In such culture, employees don’t sugarcoat anything, are able to tell the truth no matter the circumstances.
It is important for leaders to define the short term and long term goals, to give their employees a definition of success so they know what to aim for in the long run.
For example, success can be meeting deadlines and hitting results.
Success can also be defined on different levels of technical competencies or on leadership abilities.
Leaders must be realistic about their goals and set clear expectations for employees. Setting unreachable goals will only demoralize your team.
The Golden Rule is the principle of treating people the same way you want to be treated.
Because leaders are role models, they have to become culturally sensitive and inclusive.
There are several ways that leaders can empower their teams within the company. They can:
Employees take more pride and respect more what they do when they have ownership over their work.
Giving a sense of ownership will help you develop great leaders who will in turn inspire and motivate.
Innovation is necessary for the survival of each and every company in today’s economy.
When leaders promote innovation and change, people will be more likely to grow, to adapt, ask questions, to try new things and adopt a change mindset.
Leaders must encourage a transparent and open culture where information flows freely.
For instance, letting your employees know how well your company is doing will improve trust. Of course, there will be gossip around the health of the company but overall employees will believe that you have their best interest at heart.
Leaders promote and encourage autonomy and collaboration within their team.
They allow their teams to have fun at work. They have broken down traditional workplace structure, simplified workplace processes and looked after their employees well-being.
High performance cultures are hard to come by.
Leaders continuously conduct customer satisfaction assessments because these assessments give a direct indication of team performance and the health of the company.
There will always be things to improve in a company but it important to strive for more. It is up to leaders to:
Most leaders, when trying to improve their cultures, focus on metrics and not on the people. If your culture is not where you want it to be, remember that:
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Being a leader is hard work.
Matter of fact, the demands of the job can take a toll on your leadership and on your self-perception.
There are plenty of weak leaders who give in to the pressures of the job and become horrible bosses.
If leadership was easy, everybody would aim for the job and everybody would do it.
Sometimes, it is good to remind yourself that you are a good leader.
The truth is you didn’t want to be a leader in the first place.
You simply wanted to be competent, enjoy your job and you have always put your best foot forward.
You maintain your work ethic even though you have never aimed for a leadership position.
Great leaders don’t mistreat their employees because they understand that their business depends on them.
They treat people humanely, empower their employees and make sure to maintain a healthy workplace culture.
You give your employees the respect they deserve by telling them the truth.
You don’t pit them against each other, gaslight them or scapegoat them.
You don’t play favorites.
You don’t force them to be something that they are not just to please you.
You don’t shift blame or prey on your employees insecurities.
You don’t spasmodically change the expectations, sabotage their efforts with irresponsible deadlines and over the top objectives.
You don’t have imposter syndrome but you are secure with yourself.
Even if you may sometimes feel like a fraud, you don’t take out your insecurities on your team and you manage your insecurities in private.
You don’t put people down, ego or power trip in order to sit down your authority or feel better about yourself.
You treat everyone with fairness.
You are hyper-aware of your surroundings.
Everything you do is for others and to answer to a higher purpose.
You adopt a servant leadership style and lead with humility.
Often poor leadership is masked by those with the loudest voices and strongest opinions. - Nick Fewings Click To TweetYou do not punish yourself for your mistakes.
In addition, you do not punish others for their mistakes. Instead, you give them the opportunity to correct their mistakes and to learn from them.
You make sure that your employees goals align with yours.
You take care of their well being first because you link productivity to your team’s mental health.
If they are sick, you invite them to take days off.
If they are bored, you give them challenges to fulfill them.
If they are under performing, you place them in their areas of strength.
You don’t lash out on your employees when you are under pressure.
Instead, you stay transparent, explain the reason for the bad situation, come up with an appropriate situation and make the hard decisions.
It is quite easy to get caught up in office politics.
The best strategy is to stay clear from all drama.
You don’t talk about your employees to your employees.
You believe in forgiveness so conflicts can quickly be resolved.
You want to maintain a healthy workplace where employees are not bullied, are unafraid to express divergent opinions.
You don’t let your employees do the dirty work.
Your employees will trust and respect someone who is competent, who can do what they do without complaining. They will know that your directions are sound.
You don’t let bad behavior or poor performance slide.
There are ways to let people know that they are going down the wrong path. You know how to give and receive feedback even if it hurts.
Keeping people accountable will allow more employees to ask questions, to take risks, to make mistakes, to admit to their own mistakes and to tell you when you are making some.
Every single one of your objectives is communicated and justified.
Your team can clearly follow your train of thought and can understand what you want.
You do your research and request your employees opinion before making a tough decision.
You make the ultimate decisions but you believe that it is always good to have a sounding board.
You don’t hug the spotlight. Instead, you give credit when credit is due.
You recognize when an employee over-performed or nearly burnt out on a project.
In the workplace, people don’t forget easily (unfortunately).
They don’t forget who helped them in time of need and wont hesitate to reciprocate afterwards.
You are open to change.
Besides, you are not complacent with your position or with your knowledge.
You are always open to learn new things, to change, to take risks, to question yourself.
You have serious objectives and a lot of responsibility.
Leadership is hard enough to not have some fun once in a while.
You want the best from and for your team. You care because:
If you answer to these signs, then you are definitely doing a great job as a leader.
Otherwise, be kind to yourself and begin working on these signs.
It’s all about finding the right balance for yourself and for your team.
Keep the respect to get alignment, be likable to create influence, be approachable at the same time.
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All leaders have a clear vision for their lives.
They are willing to go through tough waters to achieve their vision.
However, they know that the greater their vision, the greater the focus needed, the greater the risks taken, and hopefully, the greater the reward.
Taking risks means stepping outside of your comfort zone.
Furthermore, risk taking is an inherent human trait and plays a major part in the life of leaders.
Risk taking may depend on the leader’s age, generation and financial background.
Risk taking is contagious. When your team sees you initiating risks and stepping out of your comfort zone, they ble will feel more comfortable doing the same.
For the past few years, risk taking has been treated like a disease.
Nowadays, taking risks is valued because it provides opportunities even though the consequences can be disastrous.
I believe that the old saying “with high risks come high rewards” is still defensible.
Taking risks is not reckless as long as they are calculated.
Some people try to avoid risks and others fearlessly walk straight into it.
However, leaders are willing and obligated to take risks.
The key rewards of risk taking as a leader include longevity, meaningful experiences, increased finance, and a more motivated, loyal and trustworthy team.
People don’t take risks simply because of fear. They are generally afraid of failure, of success, of being vulnerable, being wrong, or admitting their errors and limits.
Risk taking can be an effective leadership strategy. To take calculated risks:
In life as in work, risk is inevitable just like failure is. Remember:
Let me know when was the last time you have taken risks and what was your reward?
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Pioneering or trailblazing leaders are the firsts to do anything in any field.
Indeed, they initiate, innovate, explore and thrive in uncharted territory. They face obstacles before anyone else.
Furthermore, they are always learning, growing and getting out of their comfort zones.
Needless to say, the job of the pioneering or trailblazing leader is hard.
Being a pioneer or trailblazer requires courage, grit, commitment and responsibility.
You have a clear vision for your future.
Your vision is a dream that encompasses their values and morals, that seems unrealistic but that is yet anchored in reality, that is ingrained in your DNA.
You are confident about it and you can communicate it easily.
You aim to build a company culture that promotes curiosity, imagination and brainstorming.
However, you do not need to have a clear step by step plan.
In addition, you are always frustrated because your reality doesn’t match your vision. Your progress doesn’t seem enough and you believe that you can be better, do better, do more and do faster.
You are aware of your strengths and weaknesses, of your limitations and your uniqueness.
You value your originality and you hate imitating others.
You don’t try to blend in because you understand your value resides in standing out.
You are eager to learn and cannot stop asking questions.
Without fearing repercussions, you ask questions that no one has never asked before.
You understand that the possibilities are endless and you are never done exploring them.
You experiment with things that excite or scare you. By facing your fears, you evolve and learn important information about yourself.
You embrace change and innovation. Matter of fact, you love to lead in tumultuous waters, you are the first to say or do anything and you adapt easily to change.
Great leaders know that they have to embrace change in order to stay competitive and relevant.
Moreover, you see life as an adventure. For example, you are unafraid of uprooting and moving to a strange place.
You love experimenting, taking risks and can’t stand routine.
You enjoy trying new thing and seeing what will happen next.
You are creative and your need to create overpowers all your fears.
You can’t help that you:
Your freedom means everything to you.
You hate structure, rules, paperwork because you believe that all these are processes stifle your creativity, delay your pioneering moves and slow you down.
You are unpredictable. Your forward-thinking disrupts, challenges the status quo and pushes people out of their comfort zone.
Consequently, your presence and your perspectives make people uncomfortable.
You wish that they can see what you see and understand what you believe in.
You love to explore and to meet new people.
A trailblazing leader goes first and leads by example. By going first, you will attract the right type of followers and you will be able to feed from their energy to keep pursuing your vision.
At the end, you will build a team that is unconventional but has the right skills to reach your vision.
You constantly take action and need to move forward.
Indeed, you are always on the move, looking for the next new thing. You are always looking for new opportunities.
Furthermore, you are self-motivated. You do not need someone to encourage you or push you towards your goals.
You are goal-oriented: you have a tendency to focus on your vision and unfortunately forget your relationships.
However, with your actions, you will inspire others to take action.
You are persistent and resilient. You see challenges as opportunities and courageously face adversity.
You are also committed to your vision and are willing to see a problem through.
By now, You have thick skin because people have tried to shut you down so many times.
Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it.” - Winston S. Churchill Click To Tweet
Because you usually blaze a trail, you have become resourceful and solution-oriented.
You are able to make quick decisions and bring new solutions to your organization by solely relying on your gut for the next direction to take.
In addition, you are able to find different solutions to one problem because you are confident about the future.
You stay positive as a life and leadership strategy.
You are optimistic and excited about all the possible positive outcomes.
Furthermore, you don’t complain. You understand that life is made of ups and downs, that complaining amplifies the issues and weighs you down.
You have a strong work ethic.
You believe that if you put the work in, your vision will come to life.
You are committed to your vision and have laser focus.
Remember, most people will feel uncomfortable in your presence because you question their reality and their systems of belief.
It becomes critical to remember who you are and what you stand for.
It becomes detrimental to be patient with people, to stand alone than to stand in the midst of people who group-think.
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