Inspired Leadership
How is it that some people can inspire thousands with just a few words, or sometimes even with their mere presence, while most others need long-drawn arguments to make even a handful follow their vision?
What is the difference?
That difference is called inspired leadership.
Whether it is your personal life or professional life, whether you are a boss, mother, teacher or friend, you are constantly playing the role of inspiring change in others.
Now I give you a straight and direct solution to inspire positive transformation in others.
1. Live it first
Whatever passion you want to see in others, first let it happen in you. Only then can you inspire others. I can say for myself that only when I am inspired to speak in satsang,will whatever I speak inspire you!
People are not fools, they can directly see whether your words are an overflowing of your experience or not. That is why professional motivational speakers can never have a lasting impact on people, unless they keep pace with their own words, unless they evolve as fast as they speak!
The key to this is to bring in authenticity along with capacity. Stretch, stretch and stretch - not as duty or a chore, but as a choice you make to expand yourself. When you work out of inspiration, inspirational leadership flows through you!
2. Don't let anything shake your highest ideal about you
What you feel as you is a very important thing. I know that my highest outward expression is as an embodiment of compassion. Nobody can shake that expression of mine. When you carry self-doubt, a single word from another person can shake your idea of yourself. If you are hiding from yourself or hiding from others, it takes only a single word or look to shake you.
When your mamakara (your inner image or idea of yourself) and your ahankara (the image that you project to the world as you) are not in tune with each other, you will be in constant fear of others' opinions, because they will be more powerful than your own highest opinion of you. When your mamakara is strong, others will not be able to put their ideas about you inside you!
Constantly sit and iron out any conflict between your mamakara and ahankara. Then you will have a strong experiential clarity about you which nobody is able to touch. Only a person who has a powerful clarity about himself can be a leader.
3. Let your actions be in tune with what you believe as you
Be integrated to the words and thoughts you say to yourself and others. In other words, be integrated to your own highest mamakara and ahankara. When you are established in integrity and authenticity, responsible leadership will express naturally. Break from the inside
As they say, if an egg is broken from the outside, a life is destroyed. It is the end of life. A life is killed! If an egg is broken from the inside, life is happening. A life starts!
In the same way, if your cognition is broken from the outside, you shrink, destroy yourself and fall into depression. If this happens, you are irresponsible. But if you stand up with responsibility, the egg breaks from the inside and life starts! Breaking the egg from inside means taking the responsibility for your own expansion.
Not only should you take responsibility for your own actions, you should also take responsibility for everything which affects your life - even if it is others' actions! Only when you feel responsible and decide that you are going to take responsibility for a problem, you will even look in the direction of solving the problem. Till you take responsibility, you will only keep blaming others for the problem.
Usually, we claim responsibility for anything good that happens, but we don't take responsibility for anything bad that happens!
Some years back, there was an epidemic of tuberculosis in South Bharat. Finally, medicines were found and the epidemic was contained. The officials responsible for eradicating it proudly claimed that they were the ones responsible for curing it. But did they take the responsibility for the fact that it was allowed to spread all over the town in the first place?
No! They were actually responsible for allowing the tuberculosis to spread also, right? They should have prevented it to begin with, and not just taken credit for managing the crisis!
It is easy to take credit and give blame.
Responsibility means doing just the opposite - from an empowered space.
Make a note of how you can take responsibility not only for the good things that happen in your life, but also for the bad things, which may or may not occur as a result of others' actions. See how you stop blaming others when you take responsibility. Watch the transformation that takes place in you.