TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL AND TO CREATE GREAT WEALTH…
YOU NEED TO DO TWO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT THINGS:
1. TO OWN AND OPERATE AN HONEST AND LEGAL BUSINESS
VEHICLE,….A PROVEN ONE,…ONE THAT WORKS
…and then…
2. TO RECEIVE THE PROPER ADVICE AND COUNSEL ON HOW
TO USE YOUR BUSINESS VEHICLE TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR
DREAMS AND GOALS.
To be able to accomplish these two requirements….
You Need…….A Good Coach
All really good leaders must grow and mature through a lengthy and grueling process of preparation, positioning, and readiness for their intended position.
Preparation is the foundation for success.
If you consider yourself to be a leader or an emerging leader, then please allow me to share with you what I feel are five of the most important learning points of your preparation process:
1. You must learn and fully understand your call and role as a leader.
2. Leaders must be willing to wait patiently on God’s perfect timing for
their authority and position to be established. Don’t rush your
development.
3. Leaders must be willing to change and/or surrender former pleasures and
ambitions. They need to put themselves in last position and serve their
followers.
4. Leaders must pursue good mentors and continually draw strength and wisdom from them.
5. Leaders must hunger to grow and develop their talents and abilities and communicative skills.
It goes without saying that the better the preparation, the better will be the leader. It always takes good committed leaders to advance their followers to a position or level beyond the point of mediocrity.
Poor Leaders don’t get very far in the game of life. They usually self-destruct.
Good Leaders achieve some very good things with and through their team.
Great Leaders accomplish great things, tangible and intangible. They encourage their followers to collaborate their efforts with each other.
Just remember that all of us have a pretty large collection of bad habits that always weaken our chances to succeed in life. What you need to be working on all of the time as you prepare yourself for leadership is to be able to get rid of a bad habit by replacing it with a good one.
A basic fact of life is simply that you as an individual do not know that which you do not know. I will emphatically tell you that ignorance is not always bliss. Knowledge and education are invaluable assets when operating a business for a profit. You see, you can only take a business or a group of followers to where you know how to go. If you do not know how to get to a chosen place or goal, then you will stay where you already are,…or you will digress and drift backwards to a lesser position,…or you will just meander around until chaos breaks out or your group or organization simply disappears through attrition.
The best way I know of to see if you are in fact a leader is to look over your own shoulder to see if anyone is actually following you. If no one is there,…then you are not a leader.
Now let’s define a good coach…….a good mentor.
Remember a coach/mentor is a person who has been where you want to go and who is willing to help get to that same place or beyond.
A GOOD COACH:………A MENTOR
Is a person who teaches men or women how to do what they ordinarily wouldn’t do……….
So that they may become what they were originally designed to be.
Your mentor needs to be a very carefully and well chosen individual. He doesn’t have to start out as a close personal friend, but if you choose the right one, he will indeed become a close or even your closest personal friend over a period of time. Your mentor should have a personal financial interest in you and your business venture either directly or indirectly. This would be a safety precaution on your part to insure you are given only the correct personal guidance as you endeavor to create your wealth.
You will sit at your mentor’s feet and learn from him. You should at all times and in all circumstances show respect and kindness to the person who is investing their life into you. Open, non-threatening, non-intimidating two-way communication must consistently flow between both of you at very regular intervals. Knowledge, experience, wisdom, and guidance in the development of your business and people skills will be the outcome of this relationship. The right mentor will always lift you to a higher level of achievement. You will know you have the right mentor when you continually enjoy and cherish the time you spend together. This personal relationship must work two ways….up and down….back and forth. It can never be forced or uncomfortable. Spontaneity works the best.
It is fine to disagree with your mentor’s advice….but avoid open arguments as you will always lose, and personal respect could hang in the balance. Remember, no man is going to pour into the life of another, if there is nothing but argumentative response each time a teaching effort is given. Mutual respect and admiration are the by-products of a good mentor/student relationship.
You should absorb all that you can from your mentor. No subject or controversy can be regarded as off limits. Total openness is to be the watchword of your personal relationship.
Just know that when something….anything…. is good, right ,and proper in all of God’s Creation,….then it always gets better with time. That is particularly true in all personal relationships, especially your relationship with your chosen mentor.
EVERY LEADER…No matter:….who they are,….what their position is….the extent of their experience…or whether or not they are emerging leaders or weathered veteran leaders……….EVERY LEADER NEEDS MENTORS.
Regardless of your personal situation, position, or circumstance,… you must always keep mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually growing and becoming more than you presently are, if you intend to stay in a leadership role. Great leaders are always growing and becoming more and more each day of their lives.
The best of all the leaders in the world of business conduct their leadership roles from the position of being at the front of business operations or performance. They always permit their actions to do most of their talking.
You Cannot push a rope, but you can lead a person who desires to be led and who wants to become more that they presently are.
Leaders Gotta Lead…………………