Every individual is born with different instincts and different identity. You may never be able to judge the potential of the fish by it’s ability to climb the tree or the caliber of the monkey by it’s ability to swim underneath the water beds. Likewise all individuals are born with different potentials levels and different mastering areas. Just to give you a few examples – the dwarfs in the earlier ages and the marwari’s/ gujarati’s in the present are blessed with high levels of business acumen, the bengalis with knowledge assimilation, the Punjabi’s with the culinary skills, the Khan’s with the acting skills and so are many others. BUT the real challenge lies in identifying THAT HIDDEN BLIND SPOT and striking it hard times and again.
There are born leaders, there are made leaders, there are curated leaders and there are so many other forms of leaders which exists in todays world. But the Real, Original, True and Remembered leaders are the one’s who follow their instincts and have the courage to follow their GUT FEEL. They are the ones who follow their instincts and end up doing what they Love.
Sachin Tendulkar – the legendary Indian batsmen failed to score big in his school exams but he scored biggies on the cricket field. Leo Messi – the football icon did not have sufficient amount to buy new pair of shoes to shape his goals for a football career but he had sufficient potential to score goals which mattered. Abraham Lincoln – the charismatic leader of United Nations -had suffered multiple nervous breakdowns but finally he made it to the position where he could have made everyone else nervous. Narendra Modi – the present Prime Minister of India – sold tea in the railway compartment when he visioned Made in India could sell so many things to the other nations.
The rule of the game is not to follow what every one else has been doing for rising the stairs of success but the rule is to set and curate one’s own path of success, to follow that inner self which sets us free and makes us happy with what we are doing. The basic funda is assimilation of the good habits of people who have inspired us, building up ourselves around those habits, using those habits for building up our strategies and using them to extract the meaning of our dreams. And stopping not till we are able to hammer down our dream – our BLIND SPOT of success.
Humans are emotional and sensitive – they always connect to things which they like. So if you are doing what you like you will end up speaking directly from your heart and will end up convincing people who think in similar lines as you thinking. You will create a environment of like minded people who can be easily connected to and easily explained to do what is desired form them.
But in the process of building up yourself always remember – enjoy and do something which makes you happy. Leaders must ALWAYS do what they enjoy and keep on doing what they enjoy else they will perish sooner or later. Do not make yourself feel as a shrub planted in the wrong soil cause you will never grow up then. Always seed your dreams in the right soil and garner them constantly with right ingredients so that they flourish up good, healthy and fruitful.
What you SHOULD DO to make yourself as a strong and happy leader:-
- PLAN: Set up serious and practical bullet points for achievement but do not be too serious about them. Learn to relax and enjoy. Learn to party and pat your back every time you tick off one bullet point.
- TEAM-UP: Set up the right macro-plan, formulate a team, assign them their work, do regular monitoring and then micro sharpen the activities. Learn to engage the team in engaging them in a happiness drive and keep them pumped up for newer targets.
- BE UPDATED: There will be newer things coming up everyday. Learn to invest time in assimilating them, updating and upgrading as per your liking and necessity of team building. Remember even the old versions of the softwares are rendered useless by the companies which have created them.
- BE FLEXIBLE: Life is a new experience everyday. Remember the pareto principle – the 80/20 paradigm. Invest 20% of the time in planning what the rest of 80% is going to be all about. Things will not always work as you have planned, take up opportunities to amend as and when the time demands. It’s the trees which stay stiff even in the cyclones which gets uprooted, but the green flexible stems dug deep into the soil wields the storms.
- FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH : Remember your capabilities, your strong zones and your pit falls, always keep on attacking and challenging your strength limits, while shying away from your weaker points. A forward No-9 footballer cannot be a good goalie for the team- learn and find what is the best in you and then keep on sharpening those skills.
- BE HAPPY: A Havard’s review suggested that people are 83% more motivated to do stuffs that they usually would not do if they are internally happy and boosted. Imagine 83% more client – 83% more boost in revenue and that circumvents to 183% boost in profit chart – WOAOOOO – isn’t it?
- CUSTOMER SATISFACTION: Nothing is more merrier in any business/ enterprise/ sports if you are able to keep your client/ critics/ fans happy and cherry.You can only satisfy them if you are happy and have the ability to solve their questions with happiness.
- SHARE: Remember things that are unused will rot in times. Always share what you know and uplift people as you keep on moving forward. I quote Dr APJ Abdul Kalam here ” Be nice to people while you go up, as they will be there on your way down”.
So remember if you want to attain that supreme point of success – follow your instincts – QUIT from those daily instruction of “Do this do that” – follow your heart, find your strengths and do what makes you happy. Remember only people who love and enjoy what they are doing will end up climbing higher and higher.
One of my stories on a person who was successful but decided to Quit and failed because he tried to follow his heart only in the shorter run to achieve that Supreme success in the longer run – DO READ IT.
