The Burden Of Leadership| Authentic On Air S2:E13

2024-05-15

I want to talk about leadership. But not what it looks like when you do but instead what it looks like when you don’t. I consider myself to be a leader. For myself. For my family. For my clients. For my following. Am I always a good leader? No. Here is the evidence that sometimes I flat out fail as a leader. 1. My wife is struggling to trust the process and have faith that we will find a place to live. As my family’s spiritual leader I...

I want to talk about leadership. But not what it looks like when you do but instead what it looks like when you don’t.

I consider myself to be a leader. For myself. For my family. For my clients. For my following.

Am I always a good leader? No.

Here is the evidence that sometimes I flat out fail as a leader.

1. My wife is struggling to trust the process and have faith that we will find a place to live.

As my family’s spiritual leader I am supposed to clarify the vision and hold space for my family to find clarity and confidence in the vision through my leadership. Fail.

2. I have clients still living in the darkness of their lies and I am missing opportunities to collide with them through meaningful conversations because I haven’t done my due diligence.

I have a client who is hundreds of dollars behind on his coaching fees but because I wasn’t watching the backend of my automations I didn’t know. He is telling me weakly everything is trending well financially while he is declining on every payment. I can’t pay for him but I can hold him accountable and use it as a trigger for a truly honest conversation. But I have to be paying attention for that.

3. I want to build a social media movement guiding ADHD parents to mute their inner critic and trust their inner voice. Right now I can’t even get a conversation started with one follower, let alone tens of thousands.

The leader of a movement knows what to say to engage his followers in meaningful conversation and I am just not there as a leader yet.

I am not the leader I want to be! It sucks. But it is a fact.

Facts fuel solutions though. That is good news. I just defined 3 solid things I can actively start working on so I can increase my status as a leader.

That is how easy it is to grow when you tell the truth.

You admit what isn’t working.

You identify how you want it to work.

You take action to fix it.

What is something you are failing at that you want to fix right now?

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