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Claiming My Leadership

3/25/2018

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2017 was brutal for a lot of us.

I realize I’ve been trapped in a cycle of outrage over a lack of integrity and empathy and the abuse of power in the public sphere. In the face of near daily forehead-smacking insanity, it's been easy to feel cynical, powerless, even hopeless. But that’s not where I want to be.

So, in this new year, what can I DO about it?

If 2017 was the year of leadership crisis, I declare 2018 the YEAR OF PERSONAL LEADERSHIP.

Here's what I’d like to try ... Starting now, I'm asking myself: "What do I want the world to look like? What do I wish our leaders were doing?" Then, I'm going to be, do and create that.

I am releasing the idea that leadership must be bestowed upon me or that leaders are only those who've been given power.

Instead, I am claiming PERSONAL LEADERSHIP. 

I’m pointing the finger at myself (as lovingly as possible? :))

I’ll ask myself these questions:
  • How can I unify and inspire?
  • How can I uplift and support my friends, family, colleagues, neighbors, strangers, community?
  • What daily impacts can I have on the environment?
  • Where can I exercise more compassion, patience, love and respect?
  • When can I use my privilege for positive change?
  • I am asking myself, how I can be the kind of leader that I would follow. 

Join me?

(Originally posted on LinkedIn - January 2018)

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