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David Guerra’s Daily Challenge for Wednesday February 1, 2017

IT’S A NEW MONTH, LET’S REEVALUATE THE MISSION, CHECK OUR JOURNEY SO FAR, AND RESET / CHANGE THE COURSE IF WE HAVE TO.

What does that all mean?

It means to take this time, right here, right now! We have our resolutions for the new year. Yeah, how did they work out for you? I know, right out the window! Is there something you still want to accomplish for the year? Are you reading the books you wanted to read? Are you on track to read 10 books this year or 12 books, one book a month or two books a month or whatever?

Let’s get back on those resolutions, you want to lose that those three pounds a month? Did you lose three pounds this month and if you didn’t then get back on track. That does not mean you lose six but it means get back on track and if three is too many for you then set yourself up to lose two or one.

Re-evaluate what we have to do and what you are doing. Re-evaluate everything you need to do you.

Are you back in school? Are you studying the way you need to be studying? If so, good job! Stay the course but if you need to change and alter the course now is the time to do it! There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

What is wrong is when you decide you’re going to quit that’s not what this is about! This journey is an every day. Let’s alter that course, make the course corrections. Ship’s captains do it all the time. Aircraft do it all the time.

Have you ever looked up in the sky and seen the little contrails up there? Every once in while you see them turn just a bit, that is because they make those mid-flight course corrections because they recognize they are off-course and they do what they need to do to get back on course and you should too!

Take the time now to check your mission status, check your journey’s progress to make sure you are going where you want to go and adjust the course if you have to.

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What do you think about today’s Daily Challenge? Let me know by email [email protected] or on Twitter: @daveguerra

Thank you,
David Guerra

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Daily Challenge for Tuesday January 31, 2017

TUESDAY JANUARY 31, 2017 – Always remember, never ever forget you complete yourself. Remember that movie Jerry Maguire? I love that movie. I do. I really truly do. It is it’s one of those few romantic comedy that’s also a guy movie because its got sports in it and that’s a good thing. Remember when he tells what’s-her-name I don’t remember the character’s name but he tells her that she completes him. You know you complete me. Well you know that’s nonsense. If you are looking for validation
and some love from a source of outside of ourselves, get a dog.

Somebody once said that if you need validation get a dog and not well that’s true. Then again you know you don’t need anyone to validate you. You don’t need anyone to complete you if you don’t already complete yourself. What makes you think you are going to be able to be complete by somebody else. That’s just setting yourself up for failure.

Sure, you go well together. Sure you mentally belong together because you feel it in your mind that you mutually accepted each other but do you really need someone else to complete you?

It is not the way it works.

You have got to complete yourself, you have got to be the whole person. You have got to set yourself up as one individual and then you’ll find someone else to complement you, to be happy with you not to make you happy but to be happy with you.

Again, you know you don’t find it in a relationship unless you have it in yourself. It is how you feel about yourself that is a direct reflection of the relationships are going to have.

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What do you think about today’s Daily Challenge? Let me know by email [email protected] or on Twitter: @daveguerra

Thank you,
David Guerra

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ON AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

We hear words added to LEADERSHIP all the time.
 
Words like genuine, masterful, honest, and authentic. They all serve a purpose to describe the individual but when it comes to the act of leadership the only one that matters is AUTHENTIC.
 
When it comes to AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP, every leader must be ready to move beyond being open and transparent. You have to work on establishing your legitimacy as an authentic leader by building true and honest relationships with followers that value your input.
 
While all followers will value your input because they would not be your followers if they didn’t.
 
However, the level of support by your followers will vary. It varies because each follower is a unique individual with unique needs and wants. That is why building trust, growing enthusiasm and caring and encouraging others to do the same is key to being authentic in your role as a leader.
 
A few things to aid you in being an Authentic leader is to ramp up being mission driven and stay focused on the long term. The long term being look at the big picture and keeping that picture dynamic.
 
Anything less and your run the risk of letting mediocrity creep in and settle. Once mediocrity has settled in doing anything else to raise any level will be all but a moot point.
 
It will be as if you are having to start from scratch. Starting from the beginning is always discouraging especially, when the leader becomes a master of starting from scratch over and over again.
 
When a leader becomes a master of building and rebuilding it might be the time to change the leader. Change the leader? Yes, he or she has become complacent.
A complacent leader is never going to be a true practitioner of authentic leadership. Well of course, if the complacent leader decides it may be time to change location, altitude, and most definitely attitude he or she might stand a chance but time will tell.