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7 Awe-Inspiring Leadership Power-Generating Strategies! Here's a really simple way you can use your personalinfrastructure to increase your leadership power, create newinnovative solutions and nurture your growth opportunities. Failing to invest in your power-producing abilities willdefinitely prevent you from realizing success on the job androb your future career efforts of enjoyment. This article will show you 7 self-empowering ways to transform your ordinary power-deficits into: => Power-packed acts => Powered-up impacts => Power-generating results Employing these time-tested strategies will boost yourinfluence, improve your effectiveness and energize yourleadership talents. Empowering Strategy-1 - Envision Your Significance! Every person has the potential to make a difference in thisworld. Look at how your life interacts with others and offers them opportunities to discover, contribute or create => meanings, => impacts, => solutions. See yourself taking positive actions, making meaningfulcontributions and shaping creative solutions. To succeed, besomeone who searches for and empowers meanings, impacts orsolutions to enrich our work, lives and situations. Empowering Strategy-2 - Model Success! The first rule of investment is: "Invest in yourself first!" History is the stories of leaders, role models and moversand shakers. Why try to re-invent the wheel, when there arethousands of successes already available to you? Stop reading this article and run to your bookshelf orlibrary and find the life story of the person you considerto be the greatest leader of all time. Still here? - don't come back until you have that book inyour possession. OK, now start reading, studying and applying the principlesthat that person used to reach their pinnacle of success. Empowering Strategy-3 - Be Eager to Learn New Things! Well, let's see - there are many ways to acquire newknowledge, uncover hidden truths and find wisdom: => books, magazines, articles and papers, training coursesand programs, discussion groups, media outlets, stories andplays, dreams and meditations, fasting ad prayers. Diaries and journals => Mind-maps or doodling => Audio or video-taping Empowering Strategy-5 - Harmonize Your Mind! Meeting with people who wish to share their ideas,objectives and visions with you in a spirit of perfectcooperation and harmony increases your success to Warp-speedfactor-10! You probably already have seen how other legendary leadershave used this Master Mind concept to great benefit - justlook at the role played and power exerted by the alliancesyour leader participated in. Your Master Mind may include people you usually do notassociate with - like other professionals, entrepreneurs andleaders - almost certainly, your everyday colleagues, friends or family members will not want to join your group. Empowering Strategy-6 - Energize Your Faith! Faith is simply a matter of adding something of substance toyour hopes and then using the eyes of your mind to seeevidence of those things even though they are not yet there. What do you hope for? To energize your faith, you must firstput some substance into your hope. Let's say you are hoping for a better job. What substantialefforts are you investing into that hope? => Have you re-written or prettied-up your CV/Resume? => Are you consulting with Search counselors or experts? => Do you know which jobs or industries you want to work in? Empowering Strategy-7 - Be Willing to Serve! Greed, selfishness and closed-mindedness block the flow ofpower every time - these negative attitudes compel us to pull back from connecting with and enjoying sources of power. Power is a two-way exchange, we give it away and takeadvantage of it. Jesus observed that the "greatest among you[human beings] shall be servant of all." History's greatest and most beloved leaders have all beenservants to their cultures, nations and to our world. You can learn more about this subject by reading our 'blog': Leadership skills training & development for creating energy! We boost our own power when we serve the needs of others, soby giving away the power of our time, abilities and gifts,we increase our own power-supply. May the Lord God always bless those who make the effort tobless others first and foremost - that's my prayer for you. Copyright © 2004, Mustard Seed Investments Inc., Bill Thomas publishes "The Leadership-Toolkit Collection!" - Affordable, Performance Improvement Programs for Employees, Executives & Entrepreneurs: featuring web-based Training, Books & Manuals, coaching & mentoring, & follow-up support GUARANTEED to energize, empower, enhance your leadership results.
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