As horrible, or funny, as this sounds, fearlessness usually comes from failure. You usually begin to believe something along the lines of “Literally nothing worse than (insert seemingly horrible failure here) can happen to me. I guess I’ll just do anything now.” You begin to push those limits and start doing things you didn’t think …
Many organizations are desperate for people to help them! Communicate to people and organizations that you desire to be part of their teams and they can help you become a leader! A great method of communication is talking to who you know. If you know someone doing something you think you’d be interested in, let …
Opportunities rarely come to find you, so if you’re passionate about something, it’s important to get up and look for opportunities to lead something. There is more than likely something already out there that you can join and rise to be a leader in, so looking for those opportunities is really the only way to …
Never ever ever forget to tell yourself good job when you’ve done well. This is a significant part of dealing with failure because you need to understand that you will always have had more success than failures! This one is a difficult one for me too, but it is vital to ensuring that you can …
For many people, especially very smart young women, failure can be a traumatic experience. But after we have done what we can and need to do to cope with these failures, it is important that we move on from them. Write down and remember the lessons, but let go of the failure so you are …
Just because you were unable to do something right the first time does not mean that you will never be able to do anything well again. When you do not first succeed at something you want to do, it is important to go back, look at what was done incorrectly, then try again and change …
You’re going to fail at something. No one who has ever learned anything has been wonderful at everything to which they put their hands the first time. Understand that failing once is not the end of the world and that it is going to happen. The more you fail, the more you learn. This does …
That sounds completely oxymoronic, right? You can’t fail successfully! That’s like falling gracefully! Wrong! As leaders, we are frequently going where few, or perhaps no one, dare to go which means we will face obstacles that are very challenging to overcome. There will be many times in which we fail to overcome these obstacles and …
Most present day societies and cultures do not value blatantly lying to others, but sometimes they do value bending the truth in some way in order to make them feel better. However, part of being a good leader is being honest with others and knowing when to tell them they have made mistakes. It doesn’t …
Being a leader is not about you. This can be a hard concept to grasp and this was definitely very difficult to me. I had to realize that while I could be doing the work I was doing for some type of benefit that I received, at the end of the day, the work I …
