Finding focus and motivation as a leader
One of the
challenges of leadership is once successful finding continued focus and
motivation. It can become extremely easy
to become complacent once you have found a certain level of success in your
leadership role or achieved some of your most important goals. This is a process that usually takes years
and often leaders that have held leadership roles for a long period of time
tend to decline or lose the motivation and passion that they once held. This can be tricky as no one can truly help
you with that. Motivation has to come
from the inside to be long standing and enduring. It has to stem from a sense of pride in what
you are doing and a natural competitiveness that exists at your deepest
level. Overall leaders are naturally aggressive
and passionate or they likely would not have ascended to their leadership
position in the first place so it can always be found and renewed. Complacency in leadership is toxic and
progressive and almost always ends in loss of the leadership position. For this reason it’s important to constantly
set new standards or goals, and once achieved immediately focus on a new goal
or level of accomplishment. Keeping your
thoughts focused on new achievements as a leader is the best way to stay
motivated and successful. All thoughts
and actions lead to a subsequent outcome.
This outcome can be either positive or negative depending on the mindset
and focus of the leader. Keeping
thoughts focused on new goals and achievements means a constant and consistent
improvement in culture and performance. Unproductive
or negative thoughts will lead to an undesired result.
Let’s take a
business venture as an example. If the
goal of a person is to open a new business and this is their passion then they
will think about this often almost to the point of obsession. Through this thought process their curiosity
will build and they will naturally seek out the steps to achieve that goal even
if they know nothing about it. They will
research and think about the concept, demographic, structure and purpose of
that business. They will discuss it with
friends and bounce the idea of people seeking feedback. As time passes this curiosity and obsession
will drive them to seek possibilities in capitalizing their idea. They may seek out loans or begin searching
for a location if it is a brick and mortar business concept. At some point once they have researched and
investigated the idea enough their confidence will build to a point where they
feel it’s time to pull the trigger on their business and follow that dream and
obsession. It is through this obsession
of thought that slowly progresses ideas into physical accomplishments. Adversely if your thoughts are unproductive
or focused on things other than that idea you will also accomplish a goal but
likely not a productive one or one that leads to a positive outcome. Productive thoughts tend to morph slowly into
meaningful actions thus creating their physical equivalent and accomplished
goal. All great ideas and accomplishments
first start with an obsession of thought and curiosity.
Thoughts have a tendency
to morph and transform themselves into their material equivalent.
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