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Intentional SELF-Leadership Create Success

What is Intentional SELF-Leadership?

Intentional SELF-Leadership impacts your success as gentle flowing water transforms the shape of a stone.

After I wrote a chapter on how “Success Starts with Intentional SELF-Leadership”, in the #1 Bestselling Book for Small Businesses, small business owners and entrepreneurs started reaching out to me and began asking me oodles of questions. I was elated because they understood how critical this is to their business’s success.

I assure you the impact it provides is grander than the credit you’ll ever give it – until you are a practitioner!

Let’s begin with some definitions for clarity

If you want to better understand leadership, and what it is and isn’t, we need to first understand a simplified definition of a leader. A leader is: “one who assumes a position and is responsible for influencing of others”.

Now let’s add a definition of leadership. Leadership is: “the influence of a person or team to guide another person or team”.

Intentional is defined as: “when done consciously or deliberately”.

The last definition for this post is influence. Influence is defined as: “to have an effect upon someone or something”.

Note: These definitions, as well as others defining different types of leadership and management, are from The Glossary of Chapter 5 of “Brilliant Breakthroughs for the Small Business Owner: Fresh Perspectives on Profitability, People, Productivity, and Finding Peace in your Business – Volume 5“.

So what is SELF-Leadership?

SELF-Leadership is all about you! Just like any significant transformation, it starts from within. I know you understand what I’m sharing. We all know statements like “Happiness is an inside job” or “Peace starts from within”. Why? It’s true. There are approximately 100 years of research validating the same is true for leadership too!

After conducting plenty of research, I have concluded that SELF-Leadership is defined as “An ongoing practice of advancing a leader’s thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve desired outcomes”. I bet you’re nodding your head in agreement Good!

This last definition ups the game of leadership, doesn’t it? SELF-Leadership debunks the leadership myth of “you’re a leader if you turn around and see others are following you”. How so? Because you can be leading from a still point (oneself) or from the rear instead of the front. During podcast episode BB245: Intentional SELF-Leadership -Part 4 of the Brilliant Breakthroughs Business Podcast, I share a funny childhood story that debunks this leadership myth.

Through the ongoing practice of SELF-Leadership, leaders are being refined to the next level of leadership. It sure appears to be the quality control factor so leaders can become great leaders instead of becoming a dud, who is a leader by position and/or title only.

What is Intentional SELF-Leadership?

Intentional SELF-Leadership is the premiere leadership approach and practice. It means that a leader is conscientiously and deliberately practicing the advancement of their thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve desired outcomes. This is like putting your vision and goals on steroids – and that’s why it delivers unconventional results!

Sounds daunting, doesn’t it? Other than the self-management of the continual practicing aspect, it is pretty easy. Ok, after you learn how to do it! When I’m working with clients, I’m teaching them how to do this without a fancy name or process. I guide them to incorporate it into their daily practice of business ownership and it auto-magically happens 🙂

As I reflect upon 20+ years of business coaching, it’s evident that Intentional SELF-Leadership is the game changer for all types of business leaders. When practicing Intentional SELF-Leadership, you will function optimally and make better business decisions (life decisions too). You can do this because you are applying the ancient practice of Right Thoughts coupled with Right Actions to actualize your desired outcomes.

Is Intentional SELF-Leadership for all Business Leaders?

It can be for all leaders – tenured or new, solo entrepreneurs or corporate. The deciding factor is what are you willing to do to achieve the results you seek?

Does this mean every day is perfect and without glitches? No. Does it mean you will have a clear path and actions to your destination? Yes.

Is it worth the time to gain clarity and align your actions? Yes! Is it for leaders who are looking for a quick fix? No.

Intentional SELF-Leadership is for leaders interested in the long-term game, satisfying wins, and sustainable gains. My quote, “Slow down to accelerate.” is one of the methodologies applied to becoming a successful intentional leader. This transformational approach is very much like water flowing over a stone to give the stone a beautiful new shape.

When goals aren’t being met or frustrations occur, it’s common for leaders to look outwardly and sleuth what needs to change to generate better results. Instead, what if they first took a look inwardly to discover what changes may be beneficial?

It’s time for you to shine brightly as a leader!

If this seems practical to you, it’s time for you to learn more about Inward Leadership. It’s my version of Intentional SELF-Leadership 🙂 Tap here to go to the Inward Leader Page. When you do, I’ll email you the 10-Step Process to Practice Inward Leadership (no cost – yes, I’m that committed to helping others learn this). It’ll land in your inbox and then each week I’ll guide you through the next step until we complete all 10 steps.

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triviallytrue · 7 months

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man this entire industry has been obsessed with worker disposability for well over a decade now

#google what a 'performance improvement plan' is

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saintsenara · 15 days

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honestly is there a single competent teacher at Hogwarts? Any teacher I can think of with more than 10 lines of dialogue is a pedagogical disaster. Very shippable disasters though, for which I am grateful because your page has made me giggle all week.

maybe Sprout.

honestly, anon? no.

that school is a basket case and the older i get the more my sympathy for cornelius fudge increases. imagine getting the call where dumbledore says "heyyyyy... so, i hired what i thought was an ex-auror who was retired from the service because of serious ptsd, gave him no teacher training, let him perform illegal curses on children for fun, and then it turns out he was an escaped convict trying to resurrect the dark lord all along. lmao."

i'd have devoted myself to trying to discredit him too.

and so, for fun and profit, i think it's only fair for us to establish an official competency ranking of the teaching staff at hogwarts during the period 1991-1998... points on for having a basic grasp of the material, points off for anyone who nearly dies in your class.

1. wilhelmina grubbly-plank, care of magical creatures

genuinely, professor grubbly-plank is the only person we meet in all seven books who seems to be an uncomplicatedly good teacher. she's got a series of well-defined lesson plans which feature a mixture of guided and independent study and which work in a tangible way towards exams, she has clear authority in the classroom but is never unreasonable or cruel, she's demonstrably able to lead a practical class which involves wild animals which might behave dangerously or unpredictably without there ever being any concerns about student safety, she takes an active pastoral role [such as when she helps heal hedwig's injured wing, reassuring harry enormously], she's collegial [she shares her lessons plans with hagrid in goblet of fire, and she refuses to criticise his teaching to umbridge], and she's admired by all of her pupils except harry [who is nonetheless begrudgingly forced to admit that she's incredibly good at her job].

plus, her aesthetic is iconic.

=2. filius flitwick, charms; pomona sprout, herbology

in joint second place, we have these two.

both sprout and flitwick spend canon seeming to be pretty good at their jobs - they have interesting lesson plans which seem to balance theoretical and practical work well and which prepare their pupils properly for exams, their pupils like them and enjoy their lessons, they're both excellent at the pastoral side of their jobs [sprout's gentle encouragement of neville is really lovely], and they're adored by their colleagues.

they lose marks for lax classroom discipline. harry, ron, and hermione are constantly yapping away in both charms and herbology - with harry and ron frequently failing to understand what they're supposed to be learning because they were too busy have a chat.

=4. remus lupin, defence against the dark arts; septima vector, arithmancy

two teachers here who earn their placement on the list by having one pupil who considers them life-alteringly inspiring.

for lupin, this is dean thomas - whose constant state of readiness to throw hands to defend his honour is one of his greatest character traits. for vector, it's hermione.

obviously, they're both well-qualified, well-prepared, engaging, and [at least in lupin's case, but i can't see why it wouldn't also be the case for vector] well-regarded by their colleagues.

they don't rank higher because lupin loses marks for endangering his students by not disclosing his knowledge that the presumed-to-be-a-death-eater sirius has a means of entering hogwarts without detection [i understand why he does this from a characterisation point of view, but it's inexcusable from a safeguarding one] and because vector teaches an elective subject which is implied to only attract bright, engaged pupils - and therefore has an easier time in the classroom than someone trying to get a student like crabbe through their exams.

5. minerva mcgonagall, transfiguration

in comes minnie mac at number five.

unsurprisingly, her solid curriculum, excellent classroom discipline, high-regard among her colleagues and pupils, support of student extracurricular activities, and investment in helping her pupils pursue the careers they want all give her points.

she loses marks, however, for the fact that she is so casually disdainful of pupils who aren't instinctively good at her subject - which suggests that she doesn't know how to adapt her material so it can be understood by every student she teaches. like dumbledore, she seems to have an identifiable favouritism for brilliant students - who she seems to permit to get away with much more than students she considers average or dull - which probably doesn't endear her to anyone who doesn't get that treatment.

on her pastoral approach, though, i don't think that it matters too much that she's not particularly nurturing - even though she's a head of house. she seems to be good at responding to genuine distress and managing genuine crises with empathy, and the "pull yourself together" vibes she takes in response to more trivial dramas is because she's a presbyterian scotswoman.

6. severus snape, potions & defence against the dark arts

the one on this list that i imagine will be controversial...

because snape is a dick in the classroom - not denying that - but he's also, in terms of his pupils' exam performance, clearly the most successful teacher in the entire school. he can fill his newt-level classes despite only admitting those with outstanding grades, and he expects every pupil he teaches to pass owl-level potions and seems not to be disappointed. hermione reveals that he does teach the theory of potions and the discipline's wider application - harry and ron just don't listen - and that she thinks his lessons are interesting.

snape loses marks - obviously - for his general vibe, although i think he should be allowed some leeway for his dickhead behaviour since potions is clearly a subject in which not paying attention and not being able to follow instructions properly is dangerous [hence why i've been a trevor hater since day one].

i suppose he should also be allowed some leeway because it's a genre requirement for a school story to have a theatrically evil teacher. but he's not getting it - since he clearly enjoys the role so much.

7. horace slughorn, potions

marks on for encouraging independent thinking and for clearly being able to hold a classroom's attention. marks off for not learning the names of pupils he's indifferent to, getting his favourite pupils drunk, and for having no follow-up questions to "hello, sir. i'd like to commit some murders."

8. charity burbage, muggle studies

entirely because i think it's genuinely admirable - and, indeed, far more admirable than the fact that the order of the phoenix all happily keep working for the state following voldemort's takeover - that she publishes an article in the daily prophet, to which her real name is attached, explicitly refuting blood-supremacist rhetoric when she must know that a blood-supremacist government is about to come into power.

marks off because the fact that even wizards who've taken her class appear to know fuck all about muggle society means that she can't be particularly good at her job.

9. firenze, divination

marks on because his pupils love him, marks off because that's a tremendously low bar to clear given... trelawney.

him telling his classes that divination is a bullshit, made-up subject is iconic, though.

10. "alastor moody", defence against the dark arts

i think it's genuinely impressive that he manages to go from being imprisoned under the imperius curse for a decade straight into planning a full year's lesson plans [which his pupils love] and doesn't have a breakdown.

marks off because of literally everything else.

=11. all the miscellaneous teachers: aurora sinistra, astronomy; silvanus kettleburn, care of magical creatures; bathsheba babbling, ancient runes

they seem fine.

14. rolanda hooch, flying

full respect to her for managing to wangle a full-time salary out of an annual workload made up of teaching one lesson [badly] and refereeing six quidditch matches.

15. quirinus quirrell, defence against the dark arts

all the proof those of us who hate professor riddle stories need that voldemort would have been a dogshit teacher, if he can't even get his meat-puppet to inspire a room full of eager eleven-year-olds in a subject which is about the coolest ways possible to kill people.

=16. cuthbert binns, history of magic; sybill trelawney, divination

they're terrible, obviously, but the fact that they remain in their jobs despite being so clearly incompetent is entirely dumbledore's fault. are you not giving the staff performance reviews, albus? come on now.

18. dolores umbridge, defence against the dark arts

umbridge deserves to be in prison, but she did at least bother to plan out a curriculum.

=19. gilderoy lockhart, defence against the dark arts; rubeus hagrid, care of magical creatures

both victims of dumbledore's "lol this will be so funny" era of hiring practices. both deservedly regarded as completely fucking incompetent by all but one defiant brownnoser. both possessing jazzy taste in textbooks.

21. amycus carrow, defence against the dark arts

he beats his sister simply because his pupils do appear to know how to perform the unforgivable curses correctly.

22. alecto carrow, muggle studies

literally nothing positive can be said.

#asks answered #where is ofsted?#albus... get the performance improvement plans out babe...#educational decrees they could never make me hate you #safeguarding tonite? safeguarding tonite queen?

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brokenbackmountain · 2 months

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the eat-the-rich-all-billionaires-are-bad-ism leaving indians the second one of them throws a rager, because who cares if the party took place just near where people barely earn 400 rupees per day if rihanna performed!

#like yes heeheehaha rihanna performed but also. it's a display of their wealth. that's all it is at the end of the day.#and having some two hour concert with god knows what else just kilometres away from neighbourhoods where people are earning So little #the least you could do is help them? instead of spending hundreds of crores for a PRE WEDDING #which i'm sure didn't even dent his wallet #all that money. and none of it to improve the livelihood of the residents of the town where you're doing all this #well!#india #mukesh ambani #fuck billionaires #desiblr

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eggplantgifs · 5 months

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Yuma Kagiyama: Believer » 2023 NHK Trophy

#yuma kagiyama #fskateedit #figure skating #nhk trophy 2023 #nhk 2023 #program #kiss and cry #we believe in yuma!#the flex of having THE carolina kostner in your k&c #seriously i'm so happy he's back #and he's really improved in performing and projecting in this program #this coloring is so ass i'm sorry i made this in a big rush

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env0 · 7 months

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Rengoku Theme - Fire Breathing Fifth Form: Flicker and Flow

(turns out it's 13 minutes long and i sprained or rolled my ankle in the first hour of a 4 hour set.)

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jaubaius · 1 year

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Nailed it!

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#dancing #cool #creativity #performance #improv #impressive

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thefantastician · 1 year

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sonic frontiers releasing the same day as a full moon?? we know what that means

#sonic #sonic frontiers #sega #sonic the werehog #please accept this humble doodle #also sega please improve performance on steam deck #thank you #thefantastician #my art

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wildflowercryptid · 7 months

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thinking about kieran again... particularly about how i feel like he struggles with a weak sense of self and how him identifying so heavily with ogrepon, (or at least the version of ogrepon he originally knew,) probably helped him stabilize how he saw himself, only to have something he considered so core to his identity essentially ripped away from him. not only that, it was by someone he seemingly wanted to trust and open up to, (which i doubt he does very often.)

i definitely think that the way he's handling things is far from healthy, but i can get why he'd have such an intense reaction to losing something that was so important to him and basically being betrayed by someone he wanted to consider a friend.

#i'm saying this as someone who has also struggled my sense of self and used to use characters to help feel more of a person #basically what i'm is that kieran is autistic-coded as hell and i see bits of myself in him #they aren't the prettiest parts but being a teenager with undiagnosed mental illnesses was never meant to be beautiful #also kieran's autonomy constantly being undermined by the ppl around him is a big fuckin mood #oh and the toxic chain possession theories are making me go 🤔#i can't wait to see how things turn out for him...#at the end of the day i just hope things end well and that florian & kieran can be friends again...#ideally they'd still have a friendly rivalry that helps both of them improve for the better (like may & wally)#pokemon #pkmn scarvio #rival kieran #chara : kieran hinoki #<- kiddo's got an mjverse surname now 😏#(it's from the japanese cypress who's wood is used to create masks for noh theatre performances)#mj.txt #scarvio spoilers #sv dlc spoilers

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vaguely-concerned · 12 days

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that higher breathy airy register cardassian voices tend to slip into to tell you that you're about to be in for A Soliloquy and nothing but an act of god could save you from it is something that can actually be so personal (that is so personal to me)

#buncha overdramatic lizard theather kids with fascism problems #star trek #star trek ds9 #ds9 #cardassians #garak dukat and tain all kind of do this and it's so funny to me. it's the signal that they are about to be Insufferable at you #it's that 'entertain with me if you will this hypothetical scenario I'll posit --' performativeness they all talk like supervillains #the dominion didn't have to bomb cardassia to shreds they could've just introduced improv classes and sat back to watch

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ensemblesongs · 27 days

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Switch TRIP album took my breath away as a SwitchP & I'll never be the same, especially regarding the symbolism laced within the lyrics (and titles) of the solos & I wasn't disappointed and the instrumental tracks are truly soo good too and the missing two minutes of Chocola-Tic After School? So good. I'll post in a second. I listened to it in it's entirety less than an hour after it released, but...

#💭#The seiyuus did such a brilliant job. I was blown away by all of their performances. The improvement in their voices is so clear.

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nonbinarycharmybee · 10 months

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team chaotix is so funny vector's really like "yeah i make sure this kid brushes his teeth and doesn't hurt himself playing with scissors and held his hand as he took his first steps and was there when he said his first word and tuck him in at eight pm almost every night. we're coworkers <3"

#PLEASE sdgkjsk 😭#vector bouncing baby charmy on his knee: your detective skills are a little lackluster so you should work on improving that.#your people skills are great when applied correctly but your organization leaves a lot to be desired.#i hope to see some improvement by next month's employee performance review.#charmy: :O #i love their relationship god. catch me sobbing at the metal virus arc every time.#that's his baby brother your honor!#vector the crocodile #charmy bee #family tag #mine

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eggplantgifs · 6 months

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Chaeyeon Kim: Pina » 2023 Skate Canada

#chaeyeon kim #kim chaeyeon #fskateedit #figure skating #skate canada 2023 #SC 2023 #program #both of her programs this season are so good #massive improvement from last season #what a confident performance!

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certifiedwerewolf · 9 months

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Remember that episode of Suite Life where Zack pretended to have ADHD because his schoolwork was shit and if he had ADHD he'd have ADHD accommodations and a special education class and once he had accommodations his performance improved? And he eventually came clean and got in trouble and had to go back to regular classes where he would have to just buckled down and work harder? And he was portrayed as lazy Zack being lazy by wanting ADHD accommodations because of course HE didn't have ADHD, and he was being disrespectful to REAL people with ADHD who needed everything made easier for them?

Anyway I want to rewrite that to have it where Carrie, suspicious that he's faking, has him tested, and the test results come back BEFORE he comes clean but are looked at AFTER, and Carrie is forced to eat her words of reprimand about how Zack just needs to "buckle down and work hard instead of taking the easy way out".

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Zack: I don't have ADHD

Bob: Are you sure? Because you sure act like you do

#anyway new headcanon that zack is late-diagnosed adhd king #he brings up this event as an adult and one of the people present points out that #hey if those accommodations helped you maybe you needed them #kinda fucked up that no one bothered to have you tested #(maybe they did have him tested idk #i just feel like if carrie was worried about her son's school performance and something improved it #maybe she should have tried latching onto that #except of course everyone thinks adhd is 'lazy but at least you've got an excuse' so that tracks #this is almost as bad as that time she caught him crossdressing #and when he confessed it was to win money for bikes she clutched her heart and said #'oh thank god'#because you know #heaven forbid the alternative #that he's a boy who likes dresses or transfeminine in some way #/god forbid/ you have to accept your son #actually #add transfem zack to the pile #i'm going to fix this show #one 'actually that was kinda fucked up' post at a time)

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