Motivational Leadership: Inspiring Greatness

Hi there. Let's talk today about motivational leadership inspiring greatness in life. It doesn't matter where you're coming from. All that matters is where you're going and how are you going to get there. Aside from what you want to accomplish, what kind of a person do you want to become as the result of all your work and effort? Men and women who achieve great things in life are invariably those who give a lot of thought to their own evolution and growth. They become exceptional people by design, not by accident. Successful people are like master craftsmen or craftswomen, continually shaping and polishing their characters and personalities so that they evolve and grow into someone important and worthwhile. And so should you. Now, the highest goal you can have for yourself is to become a leader. To become an outstanding man or woman who is looked up to and admired and respected by all the people around you. Motivational leadership is the ability to uplift and inspire people to perform at their best. Personal leadership, on the other hand, is the ability to motivate yourself to do the things and be the kind of person that make you into a motivational leader. Now, both of these are important and necessary for maximum performance. They are flip sides of the same coin. The starting point of personal leadership motivational leadership is to begin seeing yourself as a role model, seeing yourself as an example to other people. See yourself as a person who sets the standards that others follow. A key leadership characteristic is to set high standards of accountability for yourself and for other people. Leaders assume that others are watching them, and then they set their own standards by what you do. They in fact, lead by example, as top leaders do, just exactly as though someone were following them around secretly taking notes and photographs of their daily actions for others to see and act on. Motivational leadership is based on the law of indirect effort. According to this law, most things in human life are achieved more easily by indirect means rather than by direct means. You more easily become a leader to others by demonstrating that you have the qualities of leadership than you do by ordering others to follow your directions. Instead of trying to get other people to emulate you, you instead concentrate on living a life that is so admirable that others want to be like you without your saying a word. In business, for example, there are several kinds of power. Two of these are ascribed power and position. Power. Position power is the power that comes with a job title or a position in any organization. If you become a manager in a company, you have automatically achieved certain powers and privileges that go along with your rank. You can tell people what to do and make certain decisions. You can be a leader whether anyone likes you or not. Ascribed power, on the other hand, is the power you attract to yourself by the kind of person you really are inside. In every organization, there are people who are inordinately influential and looked up to by others, even though their positions may not be that high yet on the organizational chart, these are the men and women who are great leaders because of the quality of the people they have become because of their characters and their personalities. Perhaps the most powerful of motivational leaders is the person who practices what is called servant leadership. Confucius said, he who would be master of all must be servant of all. The person who sees himself or herself as a servant and who does everything possible to help others to perform at their best is practicing the highest form of servant leadership. Now, we've been led to believe over the years that leaders are those who stride boldly and exude power and confidence and give orders and make decisions for others to carry out. However, that's old school. The leader of today is the one who asks questions, listens carefully, plans diligently, and then builds consensus amongst all those necessary for achieving the goals. A leader does not try to do it all by himself or herself. A leader is a person who gets things done by helping others to help themselves. The mark of true leaders today is that they lead the action. They are willing to go first. They set the example and act as the role model. They do what they expect others to do. You become a motivational leader by motivating yourself. And you motivate yourself by striving toward excellence, by committing yourself to becoming everything that you're capable of becoming. You motivate yourself by throwing your whole heart into doing your job. And in an excellent fashion. You motivate others by continually looking for ways to help them to improve their lives and achieve their goals. You become a motivational leader by becoming the kind of person that others want to get behind and support in every way. Your main job is to take complete control over your own personal evolution and become a leader in every area of your life. You could ask for nothing more, and you should settle for nothing less.