Are you a leader in the chrysalis?

Let's get this right at the outset ...

Leadership skills can be found en masse on an Internet search. Browse ... dozen of them, and if you want to define yourself and tick the box by a pre-set, ready made standard based on what 'experts' in business and the church think, then go right ahead and look because I did not intention to reproduce it here and I encourage you to pigeon-hole you.

Face the facts: the guy in pinstripe suit and the one with the dog collar is not the only leader. What's more their ways, their definitions and their lists are not the only way to lead.

In your life you have been exposed to all types of 'leaders in their day'. Take your teachers, even those that made you put your shirt in, do your tie up, remove your makeup, earrings and often your smile ...

Bring your parents - doing their best, as the leaders of your home and your childhood - with what they had and what they knew to take you with good morals and good values so that it would become an acceptable member of society that could result in good job and find a good spouse and continue to be a reflection of them. Maybe they were kind and nurturing, maybe they were arrogant and torturers Disciplines heavy ....

Then take your peers: the leaders, the guys high on the playground who developed the first, but I have all the attraction of the opposite sex. The first couple to make out, the first guy to have a car, the first to leave and find a job and reach the heady heights of leaders for five minutes ...

And I think that what we send on to pigeonhole ourselves that research is the hope that we are as good or better than standard. Maybe it will help us if we can be recognized as someone or something to a man's standard business and values of a spiritual leader.

And that's fine, but remember that the standard of the rich and cleaning were often called into question. Perhaps the standard of person walking their dog, talking with mothers and children on their way to the school bus, or the parent who can ignore the whims of their child or the lady who helps you settle into a new community by throwing a party for you, you're the kind of leader who would consider being.

Real leadership is not about trying to meet an external standard so that ticks can be placed in boxes under your name. Real leadership is to live with a purpose - to find the definition and use of the gifts you were born, and thus brought them to the first floor in a distinctive way that changes, enhances and glorifies the greater good.

Now that's real leadership!

Good luck on your trip

Jo Ball x

Coach and Founder, Unstoppable Life