Sansad Panigrahi_BLP006_Self Leadership_Sep'11

Self Leadership

Self leadership is an enabling process where by a person learns  to know himself  better and through this better self understanding is his/her life better.

Leadership is commonly used to refer to activities such as..

  Directing people

  Guiding / Conducting

  Initiating activity

Leadership is also used to refer to someone who is a

  Leader in the field

  Leading contender

  Community / Business leader

How then can leadership be applied in so many different ways and moreover what constitutes a leader in all of these situations?

The answer is contained in the most fundamental characteristic of leadership that is Personal Leadership. Personal Leadership can be viewed as the ability to lead yourself and others; it’s the ability to define what you want from life and how you intend to get it.

The Essence of Personal Leadership means;

  Taking action

  Living each day to the fullest

  Knowing what success looks like to you

  Knowing what your goal

The session covered the various  Layers of Learning, Taking the control of the senses which  was followed by Appreciative Inquiry  which I feel is one of the most powerful tools enabling a person to know his real self, understand his greater purpose in life and strike out how he with his existing knowledge & strengths have the capability in achieving it. It tells you that you have all what you NEED! Then we did the exercise, discuss getting rid of Ego, how to bring the Mind and the Heart parallel, the Fears we live with and how to make smart decisions, smartly.

During the 3  months  the  journey of SOIL we  had the chance to interact with Anil Sachdev  a lot and he has highlighted the following things:-

       Reveal your  passion and start building yourself towards it.

      Try to figure out what you are good at and back your strengths driving that activity.

when I look back and think about those two things which he mentioned , a gentle smile runs  across my face as  I followed his instructions to actually do the things he suggested , I am  a successful and happy person right now. I can tell you the methodologies Anil Sir followed were simple and systematic that made me a cheerful and contented person which I am? His emotional connect with me has been mesmerizing, helping me out in difficult times.

“I have realized that there are only 2 things in life that can help you attain the escape velocity to break out of an existing paradigm. One is PAIN and the other is ASPIRATION. It is as true of organizations as it is for individuals that the desire to change is really triggered by one of the two.”

Thus I went through a complete transformation in last four months. I am able to rediscover and rejuvenate myself. I used to be a firm believer that being an “emotional fool” whom I used to call myself and thought it is one of the major weaknesses that I have carried which have hindered my path to success in many ways. Guess what? After the time that has passed in SOIL I am still an emotional person but not a fool. I am an emotionally balanced person who utilizes and channelizes his emotions in the right manner. I am a people’s man and love to emotionally connect with them.