THE JOURNEY TOWARDS BECOMING A BETTER HUMAN / A LEADER

Greetings my dear friend(s)… In an attempt to bring humans together and work towards becoming a better human being and thereby a better leader – 2 youngsters have planned to join hands with the other HUMANS in the neighborhood to make everyone around including themselves live life not only for their near and dear but for themselves as well. Who are the two youngsters? Well – one is me who has written this blog and the other is YOURSELF for the simple reason that you have already come half way in making your life more worthwhile by taking the effort to read this blog and the reason I refer to you as a youngster is that you are slowly but steadily regaining the same level of enthusiasm as you may remember having had during your childhood days.

Most of us have lived our lives either to support our parents, our children, our grandchildren, our families etc… all is well in fact I do agree that that is one of the most important part of our lives if not the most important part. But what this blog of mine intends to do is to shake your thought process a bit and make you realize the importance of living life for yourself and for other things except saving and providing for your family. Let me ask you a simple question – “what would the child you once were, think of the person you have become today?”

Going by the great adage - "the greatest tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die within us while we live" - (source unknown)... meaning the inner desires, the dreams that we wanted to make come true, but never spent time towards it because we had our plates full already with other commitments… Well the only solution to this is, manage your time properly and spend sometime over the weekend on the dreams.

We humans are nothing but evolved animals, which have the knowledge of good, and bad and also who can choose between a blessing and a curse, but in spite of this we tend to do things the easier way rather than the right way, just so that it can be done a lot easier. This is where we need to show signs of leadership and exercise them. We need to make the right choices in order to justify our place on this planet. To prove ourselves worthy of our place on this planet and provide to the whole Human race rather than just be a mere passive part of it. In doing so we would not only achieve a greater sense of being, but also will be reaching for a greater sense of responsibility. Now that we are talking about a responsible person, what topic better can we discuss about than leaders and leadership;

IN SIMPLE WORDS, THIS IS HOW WE WOULD EXPLAIN WHAT A LEADER IS VISUALISED AS:

• A leader is a person, who does things in the right way,
• A leader stands up for his or her own doings and owns up responsibility if they go wrong,
• They are who take the path little people take and try succeeding in it no matter what comes in their way,
• Leaders never give up on an idea whether it is their own or their team mates’ as long as it is something worth working on.
• Leaders lead by example and set examples for people to follow…

“all this is fair and true. But then what about those who do not come into a category where they are not lucky enough to be in a position where the tag ‘leader’ is not associated to them...” hence on a broader perspective, let us consider this description to be fair to humanity:

I WOULD LIKE TO DESCRIBE A LEADER AS:

• ONE WHO BREATHES OXYGEN - ROBIN SHARMA (LEADERSHIP EXPERT)
• ONE WHO CRIES WHEN IT HURTS AND LAUGHS WHEN IT TICKLES; MOST IMPORTANTLY SHOULD DO THE SAME NOT ONLY WHEN IT HAPPENS TO THEMSELVES, BUT ALSO WHEN IT HAPPENS TO OTHERS AS WELL…
• ONE WHO LOVES TO SEE PEOPLE AROUND HIM / HER HAPPY, FULL OF LIFE AND WHO LOVES PASSING POSITIVE ENERGY AROUND TO OTHERS.

“Effectively, these points mean to say that everyone on this planet is a leader in their own rights”

The perception of people that only people with position are leaders is sort of a misconception. Reasons being:
- If Mahatma Gandhi would have thought that only the officials in the military had the right to fight for freedom, then we would never have seen independence till date…
- If mother Teresa had not taken initiatives towards treating leprosy like any other normal disease then lepers would have no one to think about them, let alone people to love them and care for them,

Hence the point is – everyone who notices an opportunity or an opening to do some good that can make a positive change in any ones life would qualify as a leader.

"So my fellow humans, if there is an opportunity that NATURE/GOD has presented you to prove to YOURSELF that you are a good human being and thereby a good leader, then don’t think twice before performing it. It doesn’t matter how big or how small the deed you do is… it is the effort that makes you a better human being and thereby proving that you are a leader…."

This blog is only a personal reflection of my thought and my ideas and a few ideas shared from a few audio presentations that I have listened to and does not intend in any way to alter or influence the readers’ perception or idea. Thank you for the time you have spent on reading this, shall try improving with every effort of mine. Hope you have enjoyed and have learnt something. GOD BLESS ALL