Episode 185: "Finding your pathway as a leader."

"Finding your pathway as a leader."

 

Greetings, Summit Leaders.

 

Wherever you are on your journey in career and life, we need a way of determining if we are on the right pathway. 

 

Having a written purpose/vision statement for yourself is critical.

 

 First, a vision statement requires thoughtful reflection on where I am, what I have experienced, and where I desire to land when I reach the desired destination. What impact will I have on others?

 

You can protect yourself from unnecessary delays, setbacks, and losses associated with moving from your pathway in career and life. Without vision, people perish, dreams deferred, and opportunities bypass us. What are some of the things we can do to ensure we discover our true north?

 

 

A proven approach to finding true north is with a Global Positioning System (GPS). A GPS recognizes your location by compiling the location information provided by multiple satellites that orbit the earth. 

 

If you have one, you can select a 'true north' setting on your GPS, enter your destination, and it will take care of the rest. 

 

Here are some things you can be aware of and do to protect yourself on your life and career journey from getting off course. 

 

Someone once said, "Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you."

 

Here is an action plan.

 

 Review, Reflect, Resolve.

 Review: Take time each day to focus on your purpose, vision, and goals for your life. It can be refreshing to rehearse your mission and envision your success.
 Reflect: Take the time to think through your experiences so far, what you have accomplished, and insights you are gaining. Often we discover new things about the value we are creating and a process for replicating this in new ways. Also, we become aware of skills, talents, gifts that may not have been apparent. It is in serving that we gain these insights.
 Resolve: Be steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in your work and your vision. Be aware of distractions that lure you away from your calling, pathway, and purpose. 

 

"Faster does not always mean better." Summit Leader

 

 

Secondly, there is safety in the multitude of counselors (your GPS); people with discernment are willing to point out the need to adjust your thinking and attitude and recommend needed course corrections.

 

Make it a goal to include accountability partners for your life and career. These are the wise people you walk, stand, and sit with during your journey.

 

Finally, we become aware of our thinking. Take captive every thought, not in alignment with your vision, purpose, and goals. Avoid listening to the wrong voices. 

 

Practice by thinking and rehearsing the right thoughts. Be transformed by changing what you allow to dominate your thinking.

 "Sow a thought reap an action. Sow an action reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character, sow a character, reap a destiny." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

As a person thinks in their heart, so they are.

 

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, ... the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau

 

Victory!