Leadership – Don’t Do This! There are many things people will tell you to do or not to do…Don’t do this one thing!

Leadership, a word that is on the tongue of every Entrepreneur walking the face of the planet.

Funny thing is, not many of them understand or know what true leadership is. If you listen carefully you will hear any host of different advice flying around like people are quoting the Gospel. Be very careful what you take to heart and apply in your leadership model.

Leadership does not have to be complicated,

but most will make it that way. Most people think that good Leadership has a complicated road map that unless followed to a “T”, one will not reach the desired destination. It is probable that you have felt this way yourself. I understand this as I have been in those shoes as well.

Along the journey to good leadership I encountered many people that I looked up to or wanted desperately to be like. That my friends, was my first mistake. You see, it is only after you have lived and traveled cultivating your mindset that you know what real Leadership looks like. I know that sounds really funny, possibly even sad, but it is the truest thing I have ever learned.

I wanted desperately to be known as having GREAT leadership. Why? Well for many reasons however that is another story. The biggest reason for me was because I saw leadership as an explosive avenue to help others. Helping others is my highest priority, my greatest mission.

I went to many meetings, traveled many miles, followed many leaders on my quest to great leadership. I tried everything I could. I thought I did every thing right. I implemented everything that I saw and learned. I polished my smile, changed my attire, started holding calls and meetings myself. I was doing everything just like every one else and yet……I did not have great leadership.

Why was it that people, that I believed to be less smart and less advantaged, were killing leadership and yet every day was a struggle for me? What was I doing wrong? How could I be a great leader and have great leadership?

Needless to say I became very disenchanted and  frustrated. I began to go through all the doubts and failures that I now know all great leadership goes through. It was really bad at points and I really had a bad time for a long time personally because I could not seem to obtain the one thing that I so desperately desired.

After some time of disappointment, I shifted my focus to other areas of my business and personal development. I began to learn other things and expand my expertise in other areas, always thinking in the back of my mind, I want to have great leadership! Time went by in what now seems like weeks and minutes, but in reality it was years. Never the less the time went by.

One morning I woke up to the phone ringing and it was a fellow business partner. This particular morning they needed to discuss some business and some plans on changing the way they were running their business. So why were they calling me? I had no clue……

Out of no where, I had entered into great leadership and there was no big announcement, no party, no cup cake with a candle. Just a phone call with plans of changing the way a business runs and my opinion and expertise were needed to make it happen. I was being offered partnership. WOW, what a feeling.

The lesson here is Don’t Do This! Leadership is not something that you can copy someone else on, it is something that you grow into, just being yourself!!!!!

Just being yourself! W O W!    That is amazing……I missed so many years I could have been helping others because I was to busy being in my own way!!! Learn from my experience, don’t waste time trying to be like anyone else, just be you and never QUIT!

To your leadership!

Kris Hanks

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