The Stuff of Leaders

Heroic Leadership

Self Awareness Values Clarification

Ingenuity Time Management

Love Heroism

Self Awareness

Leaders thrive by understanding who they are and what they value, by becoming aware of unhealthy blind spots or weaknesses that can derail them, and by cultivating the habit of continuous self-reflection and learning.

Key virtue: humility (accepting the truth about oneself through regular practice of self-reflection like the daily awareness examen)

Tools

Allocate 10 minutes every night to scan the events of your day. Identify moments of high and lows, study your reactions and responses to circumstances. Do this daily.

Ingenuity

Leaders make themselves and others comfortable in a changing world. They eagerly explore new ideas, approaches, and cultures rather than shrink defensively from what lurks around life’s next corner. Anchored by negotiable principles and values, they cultivate indifference that allows them to adapt confidently

Key virtue: indifference or interior freedom

One thing to remember

PRIORITIZE

Prioritize

URGENT NOT URGENT IMPORTANT

1

Crises, pressing problems, deadline driven projects

Burnout, stress

2

Prevention, relationship building Planning, recreation

NOT IMPORTNANT

3

Interruptions, popular activities, casual texting

Broken relationships

4

Trivia, pleasant activities

Time Management Basics

1

•Create a term calendar

2

•Create a weekly schedule

3

•Create a daily to-do-list

in DAILY lifeSet

deadlines

Learn to say “NO”

Prioritize daily

PUT INTO MIND•Co

ntinually eliminate unnecessary stuff

1

•Take advantage of Natural Cycles

2

•Jot Down

3

•Reward Yourself

4

Love

Leaders face the world with a confident, healthy sense of themselves as endowed with talent, dignity, and the potential to lead. They find these attributes in others and passionately commit to honoring and unlocking the potential they find in themselves and in others. They create environments bound and energized by loyalty, affection, and mutual support – places marked by “greater love than fear”

Key virtue: love (that empowers, unifies, edifies)

Love

“we can only do little things with great love”

Heroism

Leaders imagine an inspiring future and strive to shape it rather than passively watching the future happen around them. They extract gold from opportunities at hand rather than waiting for golden opportunity to be handed to them.

Key virtue: cultivate imagination (wonder like a child, dream like a visionary, think outside the box)

Heroism

Example of heroism: students taking time to tutor street kids in Divisoria

Synthesis

We are all leaders, we are leading all the time. Well or poorly

Leadership springs from within. It is about who I am as much as what I do.

Leadership is not an act. It is my life, a way of living

I never complete the task of becoming a leader, it is an ongoing process.

End

Thank you so much CONUS for giving me this opportunity to share. Unfortunately, as much as I want to be with you, my “eye irritation” does not permit me. If you need any form of help (except financial), you can always contact me at facebook.com/tonton.neri