46: 7 Leadership Qualities: How to Become a Great Leader
1 Sept 2021 · 11 min
A Drew Canole podcast episode urging listeners to adopt seven lion-like leadership qualities. Core messages: be protective (of territory, loved ones, time, business), live in the present/’eternal now’, cultivate bravery and willingness to fight for important causes, hunt for original ideas and purpose, build/seek in-person community, and be comfortable with solitude and inner work. The episode mixes personal anecdote, cultural references, and motivational directives; it ends with a brief CTA to follow the host on social channels.
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Hey, my friends. Welcome to the Drew and you show. Today we're talking about the characteristics of the lion and why you need to be a lion in leadership and in your life. Right now, being a lion is one of the most uncommon things. Everywhere we look, there's just people buying different agendas here and there, and they're giving up even being protective over the people that they love. They're just willing to kind of go with the flow like a flock of birds all over the place. So the number one leadership quality and trait that lions have is to be protective over what they care about, whether it's territory. Right. TD Jakes was giving a sermon and he was talking about how the devil will come in for your territory. All the devil wants is your territory. They don't want to destroy you, but they want to let you know that the devil has it, that it is taking everything from you bit by bit. And one of the biggest things it can affect is your family when it starts. You know, one of my favorite movies growing up as a kid was Lion King. Oh, so good. I wanted to be that little lion cub. Everything was possible. Be the leader, the lion of the the Serengeti. What's interesting about the lion is it doesn't stress out. It wakes up in the morning, gets up, stretches out for a little bit, shakes its body, then it goes off and it hunts. It finds what it needs to eat, kills what it needs, and then takes it back to its family and then allows its family to eat. And I think that's a lesson right now in not being anxious for what the universe is going to supply or what God's going to bring into your life. Far too many people are worried about what's going to come tomorrow versus being in the eternal now moment here. And to be a lion, you get to be in the present, total now eternal moment here. This is the only moment that's happening. This is the only moment that has any power. This is the only place that exists right here, right now. And to be one of the six qualities of leadership as a lion is to be in full ownership of the eternal moment. It's not thinking about the past or the future. Just be here. We're going to start seeing many more turbulent things. The Matrix is breaking. The system is no longer working. It's obvious if you're watching anything on tv, if you're watching the Internet, it is breaking down. There's desperation. People are worried right about the way the system is, is going. And the agendas are getting even more and more crazy. So, number one, be in the eternal now moment. When you're walking down the street, people may throw stones at you, people may disagree. People may try to get you on the bandwagon to do something that isn't in your best interest. You know it. Your soul, you know it in your body. Every single cell of your being knows it. Don't listen to those people. You are here for a very specific reason. You've incarnated on the Earth realm at this time. Trust. Listen to people that give you insight, that fill you up. Don't surround yourself with people that are trying to inspire you to be something that you're not. You know what I'm saying?
The second principle of being a lion in leadership is to be completely protective. Protective, number one, of your own time. There's a lot of time earners and there's time burners. There's people wasting your time every single day, and you know it. You're shaking your head right now, smiling. There's people that literally suck you dry. They take your energy. They take your time, they take your money. These are what we call time burners. And there's other people that give you your time back. When you leave them, you feel inspired. You feel like you got energy from them. You came home with insight, inspiration, motivation, and determination to take your life to the next level. Those are the people we want to be around. So, number one, be protective of your own time. And then also be protective of the people that you love and care about. Aren't they worth being protective of? Right. I posted this Instagram story recently, and I don't have children, but if I did and they were in a school that required them to wear a mask, you bet your ass they would not be going to that school anymore. Because I believe in breathing in.
That delicious prana. I think it's vital for a child's brain. And now you start to look at these IQ studies that are happening during the whole pandemic, and it's crazy. 20 to 30 drop in points in IQ for kids right now due to this thing. I just read a study. It absolutely blows my mind. So you bet your ass I'd be protective over my children and I'd be protective over my spouse. I'd be protective over my business. I'd be protective over all the details, all the small things in my life. Because how you do the little things is how you do everything. So be protective. Think about that. What do you need to be more protective of? As the weeks come and go, time is starting to fly by. Even faster than I can articulate. Do you feel that time? It's already September of this year. It feels like just yesterday it was the beginning of the year. Time is speeding up. So how can we be more protective with our time and the people that we love? The third would be, you gotta be brave. Like the lion. You gotta be brave. Far too many people are cowards. Far too many people have no courage. They're just giving up their personal power. Or as Maidan would say, their seniority. And, yeah, to be courageous. What does it look like? Maybe you make a decision today that you've been holding off on and you haven't done because you're too afraid to do it. Maybe ask that person out. Maybe you pay a bill that you have and debt, but you're scared because you want to save the money. Well, that energy is very restrictive. But when we're brave and we lean into the uncomfortable world that we're creating, magic starts to open the door. So start to be brave. Stand up for yourself. Somebody asks you to do something, you don't believe in it. Tell them no. Hell no. Get out of here with that. You are a sovereign being. Remember that. Next up, you got to be willing to fight for what you love, right? Maybe you don't want to die on any hill, but there's got to be a hill worth going to battle on. Far too many people just give in. Ah, it's not worth arguing about. And they send out cold fries or something at the restaurant.
Maybe the juice is watered down instead. A healthier option. They put ice in it. And you don't like ice in your juice. What are you gonna do? You gonna take it like that? Are you gonna send it back? You're paying good money. Your money is energy. It's currency. You deserve to have everything that you'd ever want in this life. If you don't like something, send it back. Thank you, universe. Let's try this again. I am going to cast another order. I'm going to expect a higher result based on my energy. And then watch what starts to show up for you. So fight for your children. Fight for your life. So many people are basically walking around dead right now. They're. They're no longer fighting for their life. I see it. Their souls are so checked out. They left this body a long time ago. They left this earth. Earth is a reflection of your body. Your body. So many people in this collective conscious realm have literally left. They're no. No one's home. They have the fluoride stare. They're looking at you checked out. They're not into any other goals. They're not serious. You ask them what they want to do with their life, they take two minutes to formulate a sentence, and it basically sounds like, I don't know what the f. I'm even doing here. These people are already gone. And if that's you, wake up, don't be this person. You get to have a dream. You get to have goals. You get to have a life that's fulfilling. You get to springboard out of bed in the morning, fully alive, fully awake. And yes, there's gonna be freaking valleys. I've been in a massive valley for the last year and a half, wondering what I'm doing next, what the next thing is for Drew. Praying every single day. Day. But there's a purpose for that valley, and I'm fighting through it every single day. This isn't normal. It's not normal to fall off the wagon of ambition like Robert Collier talks about in the book Secret of the Ages. It's normal to have passion and purpose and go for everything that you could ever dream up. So what is. What is it in you that's willing to fight for? What are you willing to stand on the hill for? You need more people. This. This is a revolution we're in, my friend. So what are you willing to stand up for? The next up is lions are hunters. So be a leadership in leadership. We got to hunt sometimes. We got to find things. We get to research. We get to look at all the information and then postulate an idea that's original to us. Original thinking is almost dead. Most people are just cookie cutter images of a thought that's no longer working or a system that's completely, completely broken or some patriarchal machine that's just devouring Mother Earth. That's just wrong, right? There's no good or bad. I mean, it is what it is. But we get to hunt. We get to find things that can bring us to life. So what are you hunting for? What are you looking at? And you may not find it right, but it's. It's powerful to hunt. It's powerful to go on a mission every single day, a voyage, and then use that retrospection, looking back at the day, to understand more and more about who you are, more and more about what brings you to life, because a life worth lived. That's what it's about. So hunt. Next up. One of the things you'll see in the tribe of lions is they have community. So what is your community?
I Mean, it pays to have people around you with similar ideas. And if you're the only one in your group that believes what you believe, I assure you there's more people waiting to connect with you at this time, in person, face to face, not on zoom, not on the phone, which are all great mechanisms for connection, but there's a deeper level of connection happening on the Earth right now, and that's in person. That's face to face, eye to eye, hug to hug. Right. Did hugs become such a scarce thing? So we get to be part of a community, part of a group, which is super powerful.
And I would say next up, being the leader and embodying one of these leadership styles of the lion is essentially not being afraid to be alone, to be in your own thoughts. Maybe you listen to my podcast on the thought realm before, but I believe that's the true work, is understanding what our thinking is like every single day and then correcting it and allowing our thoughts to shape shift our reality. I think that's super powerful. Sometimes we may feel alone, and we're not. We have a whole cadre of invisible angelic beings and other luminous warriors, warriors guided by our side. They're here. They're right now in the present. And if we knew for one second what was walking with us in this third dimension, even though we can't see it oftentimes, it would give you more power than you could ever imagine. Our ancestors are the ones that they've. Been. You're. You are the ones your ancestors have been praying for for thousands of years in this moment, knowing what's happening on planet Earth, forecasting it, seeing it from the past, and projecting their consciousness into the eternal now moment that we would call life today on Earth is what they've been praying for. That you would wake up. Because right now, Earth needs you. That you would wake up enough so that your future kids would have a place that's not so controlled by this artificial intelligent world, this sick, twisted society that seems like is lurking in the distance quicker. It's, like coming in pretty quick. So what can we do to wake up my friend? We may have to be alone for a while to get a good grip on why we're here. Because the revolution's here. It's right now. And you're either a lion or you're one of the sheep. And our job is not to wake the sheep up right now, it is to wake other lions up. So that's why I recorded this short, efficient, effective podcast. Hopefully you got a lot out of I believe seven things. I do a lot of this impromptu style. All of it actually. Just get an idea and go rip it. So if it was helpful for you, head on over to Drew and you'd podcast. I do two a week. One's an interview, one is something like this. I could do this every day. If it helps impress it in your unconscious mind to rise up to be a bigger, brighter version of who you truly are. Because who you are is magnificent. You're a miracle in this multidimensional suit that you call your body and your. You're connected to everything. All life, all one. And that's a super powerful place to be, my friend. So much love coming out to you. Hit me up on Insta. Let me know what you guys want to hear next. I'm also on telegram and I'm on signal now, which I'll join my text list as well my SMS text. So in any event, much love. Remember, we're in this together. We'll talk soon.
Sam.