Brian Tracy explains how the Law of Attraction— the principle that you attract people, ideas, and resources aligned with your dominant thoughts—applies to leadership. He argues that personal and professional development (learning, reading, seminars, mastermind groups, applying others' successful ideas) is the lever that improves the quality of employees, customers, suppliers, and overall business outcomes. The talk emphasizes continual self-improvement, active practice of leadership skills, and a direct call-to-action to visit the speaker's website and subscribe for more content.
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Here are some ideas on how you can use the Law of Attraction to improve your leadership skills. When you begin leading a new business or take on a new leadership role in a business, you'll usually be relatively inexperienced in the cut and thrust of business activities because of your lack of experience. You will go into business with the wrong people and hire the wrong people and get involved with the wrong people at many levels. Now this is normal and natural and it's to be expected at the beginning. The key is to always be growing as a person and as a leader. As you continue to grow and learn, it will reflect on all parts of your life and in all parts of your business. There's a universal principle that you've heard of called the Law of Attraction. This law says that you always attract into your life the people and ideas and resources in harmony with your dominant thoughts. The fact is that you are a living magnet like iron filings are attracted to a magnet. You'll attract into your life the people who are in harmony with your current level of knowledge and wisdom and experience. The good news is that as your leadership skills grow and mature, you'll attract into your life better and better people. You'll attract better employees and better customers and better suppliers and better bankers and better associates. But you'll always get the people that you deserve based on your current level of personal and professional development. The more you learn and grow, the more experiences you have that you benefit from. And the wiser you become as a business person, the faster and more consistently your business will grow as well. You'll always attract the type of people who are in harmony with your own level of personal development. The rule is your life only gets better on the outside when you get better on the inside. Now, your people only get better when you become a better manager. Your customers only get better when you become a better salesperson. Your business only gets better when you become a better business person. There are no shortcuts and there's no other way. Fortunately, you are in complete control of every aspect of your life. So always be improving yourself and you'll start to improve every other aspect of your life around you, including your leadership abilities. Continue to improve your leadership skills and qualities by practicing these reading your field on a regular basis. Always be reading about the best practices and leadership skills that you can use in your personal development as a leader and try them out every day. Listen to audio programs on business and leadership success and try out what you learn on those programs. Attend business seminars. This is one of the greatest learning tools in history you can gain new perspectives and ideas relating to your field and then put these ideas into action. Share ideas in your business, mastermind groups and gain ideas from other people. If something is working well for someone else in your field, there's a good chance it will work for you as well. Use other people's great ideas to improve on yourself. As you improve on the inside, your business and every part of your life will improve on the outside. The only limits on what you can accomplish in your business are those limits you set on yourself. With your own thinking, you can go as fast and as far as you want on your way to wealth. It's completely up to you. Thanks for watching my video. Make sure to subscribe and tell a friend about it. For exclusive content on sales training and leadership and business and personal success, Visit me@briantracy.com and while you're there, sign up for my newsletter. Until next time, remember that you are responsible for your success.
