The power of practices
The leadership practices are what will keep any leader standing. Leadership rituals will make sure that a leader keeps going higher and higher in their leadership journey or call. The very same practices that got you up as a leader are the very same practices that will keep you moving in this journey.
Leadership rituals are important to maintain your leadership success and the freshness of your call. Whatever you cannot maintain dies. If you cannot water your garden, it will die. Everything lives by maintenance. Whatever you cannot or fail to maintain is a thing soon gone from your hands.
There are practices that will make sure that you go very far in your leadership journey. The very same practices that will keep you going. The very same practices that will make sure that you preserve your leadership. Yes, leadership must be preserved and you are going to preserve it. Luckily today we are looking at some of the best leadership practices. The following are the most powerful leadership practices:
- Take care of yourself
Leaders are often people who take care of others. Leaders are those who carry others. Unfortunately most leaders fail to last in leadership because of ill health. The main thing is to take care of yourself first before you can take care of others. When you are sick or your health is suffering, you cannot be the best leader you are meant to become.
You are not selfish as a leader when you take care of yourself. You are simply recharging so that you may recharge others. You cannot pour from an empty cup. Fill your cup first. Take care of yourself first. This way, you will be able to be very effective and productive in your leadership. Your health is very important.
- Love
You cannot lead the people you hate. Best leaders walk and lead by love. When you love them, you will be able to serve them better and effectively. The love you are pouring is the very same love coming back to you. Nothing is lost in life. You will get whatever you are getting out.
Be a leader that loves. Love heals. Love gives life. Learn to love and see yourself enjoying your leadership. Leadership at the end of the day is about people. What you are doing to others you are doing to yourself. It is that important. Love your people. Love those you are leading. Love makes change possible. With love, comes powerful changes.
- Have fun
Fun activates joy and joy gives energy. Many leaders are so serious. No wonder they are so depressed. No wonder they are burdened. You want to enjoy leadership? Prioritize fun. Have fun for a moment. Be intentional about having fun. What is the meaning of fun to you? What does fun mean to you?
You see, fun will refresh you. Leadership is heavy already so make use of the tools you have at your disposal that can make it easy. Many leaders ignore fun. Have that moment of fun. That moment will then refresh and renew your strength. When you have fun, it’s then you will then enjoy your leadership journey.
CONCLUSION
The leadership practices that works
Leadership can sometimes be tough. It can only be fun if done well. Though others are born leaders, that does not mean they are excluded from challenges and the work that must be done. Leadership is work. It takes tremendous work to make leadership work. At the end of the day, it must be done.
Practices are rituals and cultures that can keep a leader afloat. Without a solid foundation, no building can stand. No building can make it without a solid and proper foundation. Practices are what keeps the leader standing. They in turn provide support and solidarity for the ongoing and current leader.
Put whatever you have learnt today into practice. Ideas are useless without practice. I hope what we have taught today has impacted you and shifted your perspective. That’s the main idea. We have come to the end of the road for today. Remember, it works if you work it. Till we meet again in the next post. Peace.