| So, you want to be a great leader? You want to | | | | No matter how religiously you repeated this daily |
| live a life that inspires and influences others? | | | | grind, your sense of fulfillment through the |
| Fantastic. One question: why? The issue of | | | | process was in no way enhanced. On the other |
| motivation is of profound importance when it | | | | hand, consider your relationship with someone you |
| comes to leadership development skills. A healthy | | | | care about deeply. |
| and balanced motivation can mean the difference | | | | How much self-control does it take to do things |
| between diligence and excellence, versus apathy | | | | that make them happy? Not much right? This is |
| and procrastination. It is true that the reason for | | | | because your heart and emotions are invested |
| unremarkable lives is sometimes laziness. | | | | into something that is important to you, and your |
| Someone once defined laziness as the habit of | | | | choices and actions in that regard follow naturally. |
| resting before one is tired. Now there is nothing | | | | In situations like this where passion is involved, |
| wrong with rest and relaxation, or even | | | | action takes place almost as effortlessly as |
| entertainment, but when rest occurs habitually at | | | | breathing. And here we discover an important |
| the expense of work and accomplishment, then | | | | principle. Oftentimes the cause of a failed |
| we have a problem. | | | | leadership development strategy is not a lack of |
| While laziness does represent a real challenge to | | | | will power or discipline, but rather the fact that |
| any effective leadership development program, | | | | our physical, mental and emotional resources are |
| there is another hazard that is often far more | | | | being channeled into areas that are out of |
| widespread and damaging. I am referring here to | | | | alignment with our core values and passions. |
| the matter of misdirected focus and energy. | | | | Sustainable leadership development recognizes the |
| Have you ever had a job that you dreaded? If | | | | fact that people make decisions based on value, |
| you haven't had this experience, you are indeed | | | | whether their assessment of value is accurate or |
| among a very small, select group of people in the | | | | distorted. As you increasingly align your efforts |
| world. I'm talking about the kind of job that | | | | and choices with your passions, you will achieve |
| succeeded only in boring you to tears or in | | | | increasingly impressive results. Healthy motivation |
| stressing you to the point of illness. In spite of | | | | is a product of acknowledged and pursued talents |
| this, you woke up every morning and dragged | | | | and passions, and not of sheer discipline and |
| yourself to your place of work, however | | | | gritting of the teeth. |
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| activity that you are in no way passionate about. | | | | |