Be The Best Leader You Can Be - Part 2

If you read my last post, you’ll remember the following:

“You can only be the best leader you can be if you know yourself well and you are aware of how you influence those around you.”

We need to explore further how well you know yourself.

Having spent time focusing on what brings out our best, what about when we are not at our best?

I now want you to start tracking what frustrates you, what makes you angry, what takes the wind out of your sails and drains your energy.

Write these things down over the coming days. Continue to talk with those who know you best -- your friends, family and colleagues. Find out what they notice about you when you are not at your best. I’m sure they’ll be more than happy to share. Because they want the best for you.

We need to know all of this in order to make better decisions for ourselves -- by intentionally deciding what to do and what not to do.

Do you see the beauty in this process?

You are expanding your awareness of your own limits to what you need to be at your best, more often than not.

I think you deserve the best. Don’t you?

This, for me, is leadership in black and white.

Photo: Tammy Brimner/TLBVelo Photography