Self Leadership:
We live in a world of unprecedented opportunity. To bang on the opportunity one need to manage self & be the self leader to find out the purpose of life. The 1st week at SOIL started with Self Leadership series with Anil Sir. The 1st day started with essence of inspired Leadership where we discussed about the five essential pillars of Leadership which includes Mindfulness, Ethics, Sustainability, Diversity & Compassion.
Leadership is all about leading one’s body and actions, heart, emotions, intellect and thought. It’s about being led by one’s consciousness, spirit making conscious choices and enabling others to be leaders.
One needs to:
Feed the Mind Good Stuff: to learn how to identify and filter out the negativity that surrounds us.
Move the Conversation Forward: learn to break free from the negative thought cycle and communicate positivity and confidence
Exercise the Gratitude Muscle: learn to practice thankfulness to build a positive outlook
Give to Be Rich: learn how generosity of self can combat feelings of inadequacy
Prepare Your Self: learn how to fully commit yourself to your goals and be ready for anything
Balance Your Confidence: learn to temper your self-confidence by trusting in others and believing in something greater than yourself
Promise Made, Promise Kept: learn the value of integrity by being accountable for your promises
Also, we discussed about the multiple intelligence and always tried to concentrate on the positives through appreciative enquiry rather than wasting time on finding out the negative things. I also liked the one liner “DISAPPOINTMENT COMES TO THOSE, WHO FIX THEIR APPOINTMENT WITH FUTURE”.
During the course we also discussed selecting some cases such as Delency Foundation and various other examples from Industries such as Kyocera, TATA, Mahindra etc. and the great story about the TAJ GM Mr. Karambir Singh who received the award for Corporate Citizen of the Year because of his bravery during Mumbai Terror attacks. He was an exceptional Leader who inspires many others in becoming the Leader. The Karma by Mr. Karambir Singh shows the power of SEVA (an ultimate example of Leadership & Compassion). When one serves with the compassion & zeal, he/she discovers the capabilities and talent which never existed and great things start happening to him which enable them to achieve the higher purpose.
We burnt all our gilt, worries and negative feelings which we haven’t shared with anyone and were feeling bad about it always on the 2nd day. The process helped in relaxing the mind and then we did meditation to further relax our whole body. This was the first time I realized the power of spirituality, meditation and positive thinking.
In the recent past we discussed about how to change our bad HABIT, by removing the I-ness (the ego of I) from us. If you remove ‘H’ from the habit ‘a bit’ remains, when you remove the second letter ‘a’ then also ‘bit’ remains, when one removes ‘b’ then ‘it’ remains but when one removes the ‘I’ the ego of I & I-ness, then we left with ‘t’ which is transformation and then only we get rid of the bad habits.
The previous conditioning creates the ego within us. The selfishness, the ‘I’, the ego is friend of fear and the opposite for fear is extraordinarily courage & unconditional Love. If one practice the unconditional love in their day to day life it gives great amount of joy by making others happy. By the practice of unconditional love we again mean “Give to be Rich”.
Then we learnt about the Capital ‘S’ & small‘s’ where the ‘S’ belongs to the outside world of selfishness which belong to ‘s’. The ‘S’ is about solitude, spirit, source of energy, positive attitude, efforts, self sacrifice, consciousness and to analyze am I using the gifts given to me by god. The ‘s’ is about health, emotions, choices, mind and the way I choose my perception, body, the way I think, ego and past conditioning of results. The ‘S’ helps us build the attitude & trust in our self and helps us in taking the right decision. We also learnt that where there is trust in each other, where the people take pride in whatever they do & in others success and enjoy the company of people, all these translates in to best working environment. Hence we can conclude that the ability to receive source from universe is leadership.
We also learnt about the Immunity X-ray which shook most of us and we were quite for long time enquiring within and thinking how can we use our own strength to overcome the assumptions of hidden competing commitment of the needs of change.
We also talked about the initiative which finishes and discussed about the “finishiative” as coined from a leader from Fevicol.
The take away of the series was that the work is “Love made Visible” & the best leader is the biggest follower, who defines the cause & follows it.
Last but not the least - be MAD to Make A Difference.
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