9. Change your Beliefs
As you embark on this path of growth, you will find that forward movement exposes old belief systems and that will try to deter you from your goal. Remember this: No matter how pervasive those beliefs are in your head, they have nothing to do with future reality. Listen to how you talk to yourself, then change each negative belief into a positive one that reflects the way you want to believe and can be translated into reality. Learn to talk back to debilitating beliefs as you hear them come up in your head.
10. Quarantine You Weakness
If you have a particular weakness or pattern that has derailed you in the past, make sure that you protect yourself from it. You must learn your triggers and make sure you are protected against them. Otherwise, they will lead you into the same failures as before.
11. Put your Vision and Goals on Paper
If you have no plans or goals to get somewhere, you will end up nowhere. But if you have written out your visions and goals, you will be more likely to reach them. Write down the big vision and plan out small but achievable steps that will get you there. Put dates by each step. Ask others to hold you accountable to those steps and dates.
12. Pray, Pray, Pray
Jesus said that the one that ask, seeks and knock will receive. Prayer is a simple conversation with God, the Source of all we need. If you ask Him, He will answer. And His answers are always for our good, even when they do not seem that way at the moment.
These Principles are for Everyone.
Do not see leadership success as a goal that you cannot attain or a prize only for special or luck people. Success is never embodied in a person but in the ways of wisdom that transcends any one individual.bilitating beliefs as you hear them come up in your head.
Excerpts from 9 Things A Leader Must Do – Breaking Through to the Next Level by Dr. Henry Cloud