5 Leadership Behaviors: How do you stack up?

Whether you’re a leader of an organization or a team, it’s important to take a look at how you’re tracking relative to key behaviors that leaders demonstrate. Ted Turner’s motto was, “Lead, follow, or get out of my way”. This served him well. The question is  what behaviors do leaders need to demonstrate to give people a reason ‘to follow’? Here is my Top 5. Rate yourself on a scale from 1-5 on each.

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Whether it’s golf, basketball, skiing, or selling, visualizing the process creates muscle memory that enables you to perform flawlessly. You can see Phil Mickelson visualize his approach to a hole or a course before he lines up to take a swing. In the Olympics, cameras zoom in on the athletes mentally mapping their strategy to being first to cross the finish line. They see and experience it in their minds eye. In sales, the power of visualization is equally profound.

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Tapping into our internal Points of Power happens in steps and builds over time. Transforming how we think and operate isn’t like flipping a switch. It’s more like a dimmer switch. It illuminates as quickly or as slowly as we want. It’s our choice. Crawl, walk, run. Isn’t that how we learned? Think of a youngster learning to walk. Maybe your own child. They take their first step. We laugh and clap and pick them up and kiss them. In a very short period of time they are toddling, then walking, running, skipping and jumping. They got it all from our pleasure and their pleasure as we both opened to something new and enjoyed it thoroughly.

Now, take the same example with a different point of view. As our child takes their first step and then topples over, we rush over, pick them up and start hollering that it’s just not enough, they better get it right, and what’s wrong with them that they can’t get this right the first time! Sounds familiar in our own life as an adult, doesn’t it? We take our first step into something new and, like a child learning to walk, we topple over. We criticize our self so much that we decide taking more steps may just not be worth it. If we do continue, we grit our teeth and fight off the critic in us who is goading us at every turn. When the result is accomplished, we are called a “survivor.”

Isn’t it time to celebrate every step we take?

If you said, YES!, then you’ve come to the right place to transform from the inside/out.  Manifesting the life we desire requires a shift in energy, consciousness, and a recognition or awareness at the core of our being that the time for change is NOW. Trusting in our self that we have the power to create the life we envision. This is the essence of being in the Vortex, spiraling upwards, aligning our physical and non-physical self to Be the Energy!

Before we begin the process of activating our Energy, it is important to understand that at our core, we are water. Up to 90% of our body weight is water which is not only the essence of life as a way to digest food, transport waste, and control our body temperature…it is a CONDUCTOR of ENERGY!!

Activating our energy enables us to create the life we deserve to live. The power source is our Chakras, our internal Points of Power. We came here with them already installed, no assembly required. They are designed to work individually and collectively for our benefit. Each one has a purpose. They are unique to us from a frequency or a vibrational energy perspective. Panache Desai calls our energy our ‘soul signature’. Like a snowflake that looks similar to others, it floats, and melts, yet each one has a unique design. Our Chakras are all in the same place in everyone’s body and they all have the same color and characteristics. The only difference is our unique vibrational frequency. Like the frequency of a radio station, this frequency is ours and ours alone. That is what makes us who we are. And when we are vibrating at a level that is aligned with our intentions, we attract people, opportunities, and miracles. That is the Law of Attraction in action.

So, what are they, where are they located, and why should I care? This is a question that might be going through your mind.

Chakras are the relay points for our Chi, or life energy. I call them our Points of Power, POP’s.

  The scientific term chi (prana, ki, orgone), is defined as those mysterious energies that are in constant need of balancing, harmonizing, unblocking, channeling, funneling, and transferring in order to maintain perfect health.

From my perspective, our Chi is not that mysterious. Imagine that our body has 7 batteries that start at the base of our spine and are strategically placed at different points in our body until they reach the crown of our head. They each have a +/- on each end. When they are aligned, energy flows. We are ‘in the zone’, soaring, operating on all cylinders, cruising, ecstatic, relaxed, euphoric, loving, peaceful.  If one is at an odd angle, then we have a dis-connect or a blockage. We’ve all had to replace batteries on a remote, or a mouse, or a toy. If the batteries are not placed in the correct position with the +’s and –‘s lined up perfectly, it won’t work. That’s what happens to us when our inner batteries are not aligned.  It’s what we feel when we say we are ‘out of sorts’, or in pain, or we are out of synch, jammed up, shut down, or out of alignment. Often times this condition is expressed in physical issues, like rashes, depression, or pain in different parts of our body.

It is this energy, which exists within us that is vibrating, and it is the key to our relationships, our career, our life. Our energy either attracts or repels. Magnifies or diminishes. We can use it to isolate, restrict, create conflict, or we can use it to enlighten, invigorate, and transform how we operate by activating our inner POP’s to realize our full potential. It is our ability to align and focus our energy that is the key to happiness, joy, health, prosperity, and love. We are the Vortex of our life! This I know for sure.

Being the Energy is focused on creating a ‘belief system’ for our self that begins with who we are and is manifested in everything we do using Energy Activation Techniques, or E.A.T.s. Each E.A.T. is focused on a Chakra which can be used in whatever way we need, individually, collectively, in different sequences or groups depending on the situation or circumstance, for our benefit. We write the script and design the process.  In this blog series, you will be offered the tools to accelerate and facilitate your ability to live a life based on pleasure, passion, joy, and light. In the language of technology, think of the material and processes as an operating system which we can use to create joy in our life and be in harmony with the world around us. We will learn a system that empowers us to Be the Energy, as a way of living, that enables us to turn up our energy to transform our life in ways we desire and in ways we never knew we could.

As with any process, not every question is fully answered; not every challenge solved. As you read these posts, you will have to make decisions, design your own roadmap, take detours, create the next chapter – to cut your own path through it, so to speak. This is not a ‘One Size Fits All or Most’, it is our life that we are creating. We write our own book based on our beliefs, values, and experiences. It is the Book of _______(insert your name). And it has many chapters, some yet to be written.

My advice is to read it with your body and emotion, as well as your eyes and intellect. Feel the material. Do the exercises. Don’t limit your self to understanding it intellectually. Feel where our energy is and where you get more turned on!  Experiment with the techniques and practices. Don’t just take my word for it. Have our own experiences and then you will be able to take your word for it.

“When we change our consciousness, our awareness of what is possible changes as well. We then make progress, which alters consciousness, increases awareness, presents possibilities, and circles back to more progress.  It is a virtuous circle”

                                                                                                                                                                                           Bill Clinton