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Daily Challenge for Monday January 30, 2017

MONDAY JANUARY 30, 2017 – You can only change yourself, so don’t fool yourself to believing you will transform your partner.

Sure, we can motivate others by our example, but expecting someone to lose ten pounds or change the way she deals with anger is not honoring who the other person is.

It’s also not a very effective strategy to get what you want. People grow when they feel an internal desire to make a shift. Being pressured to change may lead to temporary improvements, but it’s almost certain to give rise to feelings of resentment.

If you don’t like when your boyfriend has a short temper, change the way you react. Respond from a space of calm. When you shift your energy, the other person will automatically feel your new energy. People are motivated to behave differently by the example you lead, not the words you speak.

And if you’re feeling desperate for someone to change, ask yourself why you’re with someone who needs so much fixing?

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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Podcast Episode #86 NOW ONLINE!

Episode 86 of the Walking Leader Podcast is now online. In this episode, I talk about Rule #9 from my book, The Walking Leader.

Bring Good News (Rule #9) is about while it might not be your job or you are inexperienced leave the bad news to those that are trained or have the experience to deliver the bad news. Your job as a first-time manager or new leader is to observe and learn from those that have done this once or twice (or more). Then when your time comes (and it will come) you are ready because you have seen what to do and not do.

Episode 86 is just under 13 minutes and ready for your listening pleasure by clicking on the link below

Walking Leader Podcast #86

or your can subscribe on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/walking-leader-official-blog/id886737443

Thanks and enjoy,
David

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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.