No matter what your role is as one leading others, you are always in a position to lead. Leading is influencing another in action, thought or direction. Regardless of your role or position, if a person or group listens to you, or models your behavior, they have followed you and therefore you have led.
People say to me all the time, "Randy, I am just not a leader, I don't see any leadership traits in me". Or, I will hear, "I have no title, I am just a clerk". And one of my favorites is "I don't work, I am just a wife and mom". Well, let me be the one to remind you that in each of those people above is a leader, and so are YOU!
Life is a journey taken with others, and in business, groups and families, decisions are rarely made without consult of others. People working each day observe their peers in action, they refer to others for advice, they even vent and complain hoping for someone to help them. And as for a mom or dad raising kids, is there a more fitting description for what we do...we lead our kids to adulthood.
Recognize that you are a leader. It is tough to soak in what a leader should be and do until you accept that fact that you are one. To someone each day, you are in a position to help them, encourage them, to guide them, for them to see you work in an ethical manner. When you make your family priority number one, yet still get the job done, you are leading to those that have not yet found that formula.
The world is starving for leaders, for honorable people to lead the way. Start thinking you are a leader, I promise you...many will follow!
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