A new dawn in the Canadian Rockies. Click the photo for a better view.
Last week I encouraged you to reflect on 2009 and in particular to acknowledge yourself for the times you were at your best, being the leader you want to be. This week, I’d like to help you set sail into 2010. Don’t just throw yourself into the year. Give yourself some time to explore what would help make it a brilliant year for you.
In Victoria Wood’s Xmas Special, one of her characters referred to her ‘Endless Critical Interior Dialogue’, in other words, all that Limiting Belief chatter we all have. Take a moment to shut off the chatter for a while and allow yourself to imagine a great 2010 at work and at home.
First of all, lay the foundation by connecting again with your answers to the big questions
- What do you care about, and
- Who is the leader you want to be?
Remember to revisit these questions and your answers again and again during the year.
Then given those answers:
- what would you most like to make happen in 2010?
- what are the Big Requests you’d like to make of whom?
- where and with whom do you want to be more of the leader you want to be?
- who would you most like to engage in a new bigger relationship?
- who would you like to invite into your Support Team?
- how do you want to grow as a leader?
- to do this what are you going to practise and get feedback on?
I’m looking forward to this year. I want to take FED to as many people as I can and my number one practice will be spending more time in that calm, peaceful space of me at my best – and listening less to the Endless Critical Interior Dialogue!!
Best wishes for a fulfilling year, Steve…..
One Comment
Deepak Pandhi
Thank you so much for the wonderful FED messages which we keep receiving. Their essence is quite revealing and really appreciate the same.
May the new year also bring you continued wisdom and fulfilment in your personal and professional endeavours.
I have been going through “Leadership : Plain and Simple.” I have two copies of the same in my personal library. Have not seen them so far in the book shops at Gurgaon and Delhi where I reside – these ones I had procured through courier from Pearson India who got them from Pearson UK.
The book is an insightful read and your model Future – Engage -Deliver is amazingly quite easy to comprehend in the realm of the various leadership models but the tough part is the “action component” ie. the practising part .
The other thing is your work tends to takes leadership down to a more personal and private level which is quite different from a good number of books from b-school authors who base their theories more on the case studies of some of the successful corporate managers who have made it big. Best regards, Deepak