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5 Powerful Ways To Find Out Who You Truly Are
When you know who you are, you immediately become confident and feel empowered.
Indeed, you stop looking for external validation.
You start experimenting and looking for validation from only yourself.
Wondering how to figure out who you are?
1. Take an assessment test
Sometimes, you just don’t know where to start.
The good news is that there are several self-assessment tools out there to help you figure out who you are, your personality type, your core values, your strengths and weaknesses.
2. Take time off
Leaders have been conditioned through their role to take care of everyone else.
Taking time off in solitude does wonder for self-care, self-awareness and leadership development.
Solitude scares most people because they lack the courage to confront themselves.
However, only in solitude will you be able to observe yourself, identify all facets of your personality, discipline your thoughts and emotions.
3. Review your life
Writing things down allows you to review your life, keep track of your habits and observe your patterns of behavior.
It also allows you clarify and analyze your thoughts.
In addition, journaling is a great way to extact the essence of who you are and the lessons from past experiences whether they’ve been positive or negative.
4. Explore
Trying new things is a great way to explore and find out what you really like and don’t like, what you’re good or bad at, what feels right or wrong, what fuels your fire or what drains you.
Besides, this will help you acknowledge your differences, set healthy boundaries, become more discerning and do the things that you really want to do.
5. Observe your relationships
They say that you are the sum of the 5 closest people to you.
If you pay attention to your relationships, you’ll notice what you share in common and what you are made of.
Furthermore, you’ll notice who you look up to, who you relate to, what you tolerate and what you imitate.
Last Words Of Advice
Remember that an original is more valuable than a copy.
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13 Leadership Books Every Up & Coming Leader Should Read To Achieve Success
There comes a time when leaders feel stuck in a rut, unable to solve problems or constantly being blindsided by events.
That is because they lack wisdom and character, they don’t have the appropriate knowledge of themselves and of the situation.
Books provide valuable information for leaders to grow and to improve themselves.
Reading has to play an important part in leadership.
The following books will help you improve your self-awareness, develop your character, build your vision and your purpose.
1. The Alchemist
Author: Paulo Coelho
Ratings: 4.5/5
The Alchemist outlines the journey of a leader.
It teaches us to be ourselves and to follows our heart and gut.
It reminds us that failure always brings us closer to our success and that all we need is already within us.
2. The Four Agreements
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
Ratings: 4.5/5
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz gathers four “agreements” to live by to ensure a better lifestyle, a deeper understanding of life, a life in the moment.
He encourages us to be impeccable with our words, to not take anything personally, to not making assumptions and to do our best.
3. Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean
Author: Kim Scott
Ratings 3/5
In Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean, Kim Scott reveals ways to be truthful, to develop candid relationships.
Being truthful without being a bully is difficult. Candor comes with risks but it will determine your level of success in the long run.
4. Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
Author: Amy Cuddy
Ratings: 3.5/5
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges, Amy Cuddy gives advice on managing nonverbal cues to induce Presence, identifying your best authentic self, nurturing your boldest self, and creating personal power.
It is useful for leaders who want to get in touch with their best self.
5. H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.
Author: Brad Lomenick
Ratings: 4/5
H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle., Brad Lomenick draws conclusions from his personal leadership style and allies spirituality with leadership.
He shares various tips on being a better leader. He also urges us to define who we are, to identify where you are going and how you will get there.
6. Principles: Life and Work
Author: Ray Dalio
Ratings: 3/5
Dalio shares many principles to navigate life and work.
Ray Dalio encourages us to stay open-minded, to find and speak truth in order to live a healthier lifestyle, to meet our goals and to handle setbacks.
7. Tribes: We need you to lead us
Author: Seth Godin
Ratings: 3/5
In Tribes: We need you to lead us, Seth Godin declares that everybody wants and needs to belong to a tribe.
He also demonstrates how challenging the status quo is a simple way to create your own tribe, to build your fellowship, to define your leadership without forcing people.
8. No One Understands You and What To Do About It
Author: Heidi Grant Halvorson
Ratings: 4/5
In No One Understands You and What To Do About It, Heidi Grant Halvorson explores the prominent reasons why we are often misunderstood.
She also gives useful advice on how to clean up our reputation, to clarify a difficult situation.
9. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
Author: Marshall Goldsmith
Ratings: 4/5
In What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, Marshall Goldsmith helps you identify all the 21 bad behaviors that are currently holding you back from success.
He also provides different solutions so you develop your character and be your best self at work.
10. Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
Author: Mark Goulston, Philip Goldberg
Ratings 3/5
Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg list all the common self-defeating habits that we have acquired in life and have brought to work.
In order to achieve success, they show us how to get out our own way, how to stop self-sabotaging, how and what to change.
11. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less
Author: Greg Mckeown
Ratings: 4/5
Essentialism is a thought process that drives success, that improves your decisions making and time management skills.
In Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less, Greg Mckeown replaces the false assumptions that we can do it all, that being busy means being productive, that we must accept every single opportunity that comes our way.
12. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Author: Daniel H. Pink
Ratings: 4/5
In Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink shows us that people are not motivated by common external factors such as money or fame.
Daniel H. Pink reveals that people’s behaviors are mostly driven by purpose, passion, autonomy, a need for self-improvement and for self-imposed goals.
Leaders can use that innate drive to increase productivity, improve performance and build stronger teams.
13. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Author: Angela Duckworth
Ratings 3/5
In Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Duckworth defines Grit as a combination of resilience, determination, purpose and passion.
According to Angela Duckworth, anyone can acquire grit. Furthermore, people with grit are more successful than people who are talented but who don’t put in work.Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2022
Quote Of The Week #263
5 Essential Skills For High Productivity
Productivity stays a keyword in leadership…
Productivity stays a keyword in the lives of people who wish to advance themselves in life.
Productivity consists in producing great efforts in a long or short amount of time that yields a great outcome.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People By Dale Carnegie
For some reason, successful leaders seem to know how to effectively handle people, to win friends and to influence people…
These leaders have built their entire life and professional career around people by following basic principles.
Wining Friends
Leaders understand that relationships can take you to the next level. Therefore, they tend to:
1. Avoid negative reviews
Leaders who are socially skilled avoid making complaints, condemning people, or manufacturing open and public criticism.
They understand that negative criticism generally breeds resentment.
Instead, they try to understand where the people are coming from.
2. Find out what the people really want
Most people care about their health, self-preservation, food, sleep, money, a craving for sincere appreciation and a desire for importance…
Furthermore, appreciation does not consist in giving cheap flattery but in honest appreciation.
If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. - Dale Carnegie Click To Tweet
3. Show people how to get what they want
To show people what they want and how to get it, leaders:
- Consider the advantages and disadvantages of the situation.
- Learn to see things from the other person’s point of view.
Influencing People
Influencing people is a basic and important skill in leadership.
That is why leaders who seek to increase their leadership:
1. Genuinely become interested in other people
They understand human nature, truly enjoy the interaction with people and do things for other people without any ulterior motives.
In addition, they remember people’s name, learn to smile and to be cheerful in their presence.
Indeed, smiling is contagious and can change an entire situation.
2. Become versed in the art of conversation
Being a great conversationalist starts by listening to people and encouraging people to talk about themselves.
Therefore, leaders find out the other person’s interest and start from there.
3. Obey the Golden Rule
Leaders observe the rules of human relationships.
As a consequence, they obey the Golden Rule and give unto others what we would have others give unto us.
4. Use diplomacy
To win people over to your way of thinking, they:
- Are diplomatic.
- Avoid arguments at all cost.
- Never tell a person that they are wrong.
- Consider the other person’s feelings, ideas and point of view.
- Show respect for another person’s point of view.
- Admit their wrongs and appeal to nobler motives.
- Admit their mistakes and talk about them.
- Don’t give direct orders but suggestions.
- Give people the opportunity to make decisions for themselves and to correct themselves.
- Don’t hurt people’s self-esteem and don’t diminish them in their own eyes
Review
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie aims to educate adults into building healthy relationships and climbing up the social ladder.
Dale Carnegie shares contemporaneous and pragmatic principles that serve as guidelines for leaders who wish to network and grow their social capital.
Most of these principles are essential to life as much as the business world and will increase your skill in human relationship.
However, Dale Carnegie promotes the praising or “sucking up” game and uses the term “friend” very loosely.
That is because most of the principles are geared towards the business world and most of his examples are taken from people who have successfully implemented these principles.
Unfortunately, praises don’t work on everybody and is not a solution to all problems.
Let me know below what you think about this book!
Favorite quote(s)
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Hurting people not only does not change them, it is never called for.
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5 Essential Skills For Driving Innovation
Every organization has their own culture, core values and mission statement.
Every leader has their own norms and leadership style.
Therefore, every leader demonstrates the importance of innovation and societal rules within their organisation.
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