How I Lead Myself – Part 3

The Art of Self-Discipline is the difference between Good Leaders and Great Leaders. One of the greatest disciplines of leadership is learning the art of Leading Ourselves. Here’s part 3…

#3: I have had to learn to Control My Decisions.

One of the great indicators of a maturing leader is their ability to own their decisions. Casting blame, pointing fingers & making excuses, makes me sick. Life is too short to blame others. The only way we grow and become better is when we fully own that which is happening in our life. I believe that…

Many leaders never move from the Well-Intentioned phase of leadership to the Well-Accomplished phase of leadership precisely because they never fully own their decisions.

We don’t learn, grow and become better by blaming others. Show me one person who has accomplished great things by making excuses and blaming others… It can’t be done. Truly great leaders are in touch with the reality of the decisions they have made. It really is true that our character is the sum total of the decisions we’ve made.

Failure to own mistakes makes us unable to learn from them. When we blame or make excuses, we forfeit our ability to learn the valuable lessons that only mistakes can teach us. &

Failure to own successes makes us unable to teach through them. The great thing about successes are that we can help others be more successful too! But when we do the false-humility thing and don’t pause to “own” our victories and accomplishments we forfeit the ability to see the reproducible principles contained within the victories!

I hope you got that, cause that is seriously solid stuff right there. (If I do say so myself… laughing out loud! Is that the false humility part??)

Just a bloggish thought,

Matt