By Michael Gidlewski

Personal Leadership Mastery begins by helping you to see the world in a way you have perhaps not seen it since you were a child.

Unfortunately, as you grow older, you often find your vision clouded, limited, and restricted. You become preoccupied with day-to-day affairs that hem us in and make us shortsighted. You fail to see the abundant opportunities that exist in variety around us. You are saddled with society’s definition of success and become what others want you to be.

Before you can begin to develop your own personal leadership, you must recapture your natural childhood enthusiasm for life, for its abundances and for its opportunities. But success is an empty promise and a false hope unless you understand that personal leadership, winning behavior, and successful living are learned processes. You can acquire personal leadership habits and self-confident attitudes by following a concise pattern that can be learned and employed by everyone.

You are what you are as a result of the thoughts, the instruction, and the influences you’ve been exposed to in the past. It follows naturally, then, that by controlling thoughts, instructions, and influences, you can determine what you shall become in the future.

First, you must understand how early childhood and familial conditioning has impacted you and the person you have become. It helps you better understand the way you are now.

Second, you must believe in your ability to grow and become the best version of yourself possible.

You will begin to understand the process through which you can retrain your thoughts and your actions, so that you may achieve true personal leadership.

Personal leadership begins with knowing where you stand now. It leads to the discovery of where you want to go. When you know your needs, your aims and desires, and, most of all, your dreams, you are then able to dip into the wellspring of human motivation to set goals and to achieve them.

Successful people exhibit a healthy self-image and leadership behavior. Those who are less than successful exhibit a low self-image and a follower syndrome. The principle difference between them is an attitude – a confident self-image plus the ability to accept responsibility for their own actions. Personal leadership, then, is primarily determined by attitudes. If personal leadership is dependent on attitudes, it obviously is internal. It is expressed in commitment to a course of action that is personally fulfilling.

When you realize that you have been conditioned to accept certain limitations and barriers, it is then possible to begin to develop for yourself the ability to break limitations and overcome barriers through the use of positive, creative attitudes.

Next week, I will discuss how personal and creative attitudes contribute to the development of your plan of action.

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Michael Gidlewski is President of West Chester-based Achievement Unlimited, Inc., as well as a growth catalyst and motivational speaker. He works with motivated business owners and entrepreneurs to clearly define the elements of what they dearly want their businesses and lives to look like, then helps them connect all the moving parts that make up those visions to consistent action and habits. Michael can be reached at 610-793-6609 or via e-mail at michael@achievable.com.

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