One of the main reasons I started to get into leadership it's because I realized that we all need to become leaders to bring justice to earth and heaven. I'll get more into details after I try to make my point with these lines.
Some of you might have noticed that the world is ruled by leaders. It could be a president of a country, a religious leader, your boss, the entrepreneurs that stand up and lead to create companies and employ people, a teacher, a husband in charge of his family, or a mother leading her kids to become better and better every day, among others.
First, I'd like to define leadership, as the capacity to make others do something, by motivating and inspiring them, but also by reading people and finding out the best way to persuade them to always be passionate about what they do. And do it right at the same time.
There are many things that stop us to even think about being a leader. There are two ways, being born a leader, or learning to be a leader. The only thing that both have in common is that it's an everyday and infinite process. The good part is that the results are going to be good for you and the people you lead, but it's also a responsibility, because sometimes a bad leader can make people do awful things too.
The first step is getting to know yourself. This can be a pretty difficult task, most of us don't even know what we want in life yet. That's why without considering this first step the rest will be useless.
A good way to get to know yourself better? SILENCE. Yes! SILENCE. I practice meditation, and it's been very helpful to me, because once you are relaxed, calmed, and in silence, all that noise and fear goes away. And you discover a new world inside of you. YOUR REAL SELF. That person that lives inside of you, that will never look the way you look on the outside.
It might take minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, or more than one life to get to know who you really are. The key to make it faster? being real when you do it, believe in what you are doing, and understanding the real purpose of meditation and spirituality.
The second step is about managing and leading yourself. So you can take a piece of paper and write down what your strengths and weaknesses are. Then you focus on those weaknesses, and from the heart, and with discipline, passion and courage you start fixing those details about yourself. Could be anger, shyness, laziness, and any other negative thing that is blocking you and stopping you to grow and be better.
The third step is understanding about leadership, and making the first step to lead. We are all leaders in a certain way, but that's not enough. We need to become leaders in everything we do, in every aspect of our lives, like work, relationships, family, friendship, our spiritual enlightenment, etc.
Once you take the first step, it's going to be a new idea that will never get out of your mind. You are going to be a whole new person, and you will feel responsible for all those people that follow you, you will improve and improve because now you are not an individual, you are part of a group, and you'll understand that you are also a part of the whole. That's going to push you and push you and push you to accomplish more and more every day. You'll get your own energy and motivation plus all that energy from people that follow you and believe in you, but at the same time you will help them become leaders as well, and spread that wisdom that will make the world a new place to live. Where all resources could be evenly distributed, and the world is not going to be a list of 500 billionaires making the rules anymore.
It's the only way everything can change, it's the best thing we can do for ourselves and others. It's a good way to combine all your skills, and wisdom for a better today, which will bring a better tomorrow, and the future will speak by itself.
In summary, do everything from your heart, be real, let your heart guide you, be passionate, motivate yourself and others every second of your life. Believe, be positive, be grateful, be humble, be spiritual, and understand and master your mind, use it as your best friend, always making negative situations into good and positive ones. Be healthy, life is the most beautiful gift there is, a good way to thank god and the universe is showing them how proud we are of being humans, being vulnerable, being mortals, but at the same time using the gift he all gave us. THE POWER OF CREATION.
God bless you all, don't forget this advice, make it happen and join me in this amazing journey.
Namaste
Luis Pena
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