Finding your “self-leadership aliveness” can be a matter of just learning to be mindful of 3 areas. It’s leveraging the best of what is – of your past, your present and your future. All 3 of these areas could be part of your personal leadership strategy for growth.
Here are 3 tips for getting in touch with your personal leadership aliveness.
The best of what is – of your past. Think, talk and then write about different specific moments of different times in your life when you felt fully alive. These are peak experience moments when you felt you were doing your best, feeling your best, enjoying life to the fullest and having high peak experiences.
Be very specific – so specific that you can relive the moment over in your memory in glorious detail. Generalities won’t work here. Be specific.
By identifying the specific moment in time – this enables you to access better the mind-body evidence (What you saw, experienced, thought and felt) to help you record it.
After you have identified 3 or 4 peak experience moments, identify – what if any, common elements in your stories. Where you always with others? Alone? Where you out in nature? Where are you talking about ideas? Or passions? The more familiar elements of your self-leadership you can identify – the closer you are to recognizing your unique aliveness.
The best of what is – in your present. Think and write about what you are grateful for because gratitude is a way of expressing the best of what is and embedded in that expression are also peak experience moments. Often when we are thankful for something – it has moved us in a particular way. Specifically, note moments when you felt inspired and lifted up in gratitude. Learn more about how to express gratitude as a personal leadership practice.
The energies of the present; they may be more subtle or ethereal than the power of your memories of the past – yet – there are little clues bundled up in what you are grateful for.
The best of what is – in the future. What is a desire today – can often be that which becomes the best of what is. ( you are just seeing it as a heartfelt desire now). I often tell folks, if you have a wish – you already have been given what you need to begin manifesting it.
The activity to do here – is to begin visualizing to get clear on what you truly desire. The easiest way to do this – is to imagine your desires as already present – already happening right now – and explicitly noticing elements are present in your visualization.
Write down things from your imagination; like where are you, who are you with, what are you doing, how do you look, how you are feeling, what results are you getting and so on. By capturing the details, you are identifying little strategy pieces that you can put into a personal leadership development plan. If you hear your inner critic in the mix – just put that aside for now – this is a time for dreaming. You can bring the critic voice in when you are designing an action plan – for now – enjoy the aliveness of the dream of what’s possible.
By being aware of your dreams, your passions, your values, and the observable behaviors that lead to personal leadership self-fulfillment- you can be more in touch with – more often – those things that bring you most alive.
If you feel like you have been in a bit of a haze of low-grade sadness or flatness or exhaustion and you are looking for some renewed spark,– this may be precisely the right time for you to go on an exploratory personal leadership journey to find the best of what is.
When you undertake a self-leadership exploration that is appreciative in this way – often it opens a doorway to some greater inspiration and creativity. Focus on what brings you joy, what most excites you and get back to doing more of it. (Whatever it is)
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