Can You Say Without A Doubt – “I am a leader” ?

Are you comfortable saying I AM A LEADER?

Some of us define leadership in a way that creates uncertainty, fear, or the thought that we are not good enough or ready to lead others.

I am a big definition person, so let me share leadership as defined:

Leadership – a title or position, the act of leading a group of people or an organization

Leader – a person who leads or commands a group

It does not give specifics of what a leader actually does, IT IS JUST WHO YOU ARE. Each one of us defines what a leader should be in our own heads!!!! Have you ever realized this!?!?!?!? We define what a leader means to us or what we think we should be to others.

When you know deep inside that you are set apart, think differently, and thrive by helping others succeed……YOU ARE A LEADER.

Leadership truly is the impact that you have on others and sometimes you have no idea that your voice matters that much to others. But it does.

There is a fear that comes on us when we realize just HOW POWERFUL we are to the lives around us. We get this notion that we can somehow fail. As a leader, you are just living and changing lives, you cannot fail.

Let me share this with you. I was at the store one day just shopping and a young woman came up to me, she says, “Sunshine, oh my, how are you?” I thought to myself, ‘do I know you?’ She proceeds to tell me how my words one night at a church event changed her whole future. That she cleaned up, got it together and now is becoming a leader herself to other women. I was like, “What? Who? What did I say?” I smiled and nodded and encouraged her, but I had no idea about that moment in time, but for her it changed her world and as she said it defined her life. THAT IS LEADERSHIP!

Have you had a MOMENT where someone came up to you and said, “You changed my life in that moment.” or “I heard you say this and that is when it changed for me.” or “I was about to give up, and I read what you wrote spoke to me.” It could have been a number of phrases, but YOU KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!

You have made someone’s life better by something you said or something you did.

Even if you do not remember this events that took place; you made an impact beyond yourself for another life. Sometimes you do not realize the impact you make just leading daily being comfortable in our own skin.

You do not have to define leadership as a company, a class, a job title – that is where fear enters in and limits the reach. You can have those things as a platform, and still be the leader that changes people 1, 10, or 100 at a time. Leadership is redefined in just BEING who you know you are, no limits, no fears, just being YOU.

LEADER, listen, you are powerful beyond measure, lead every day in the comfort of your own skin. I can guarantee lives are changed in your midst today that you do not even realize and may never know. Sometimes you will hear your name given credit from a stage of a person you do not even know. Just because you cannot see your reach, does not mean it isn’t all encompassing. Leader, don’t make your goal changing the world, and make leadership bigger than yourself, but make it about the change in a person you encounter and that impacts the whole world and changes everything in it.

You ARE a leader, and it is okay to say.