True Leaders Visualize Success
Unless someone in leadership is able to visualize he cannot
succeed. First, he must have a vision of what he wants to accomplish and why.
He then must also see himself successful in his endeavors, because unless one
can visualize success, he can never achieve it. Unfortunately, far too many
potential leaders tend to pooh- pooh the concept and practice of visualization.
I say this is unfortunate, because after more than thirty years of intimate
involvement in multiple capacities in all areas of leadership, leadership
training, and decision making, I have come to realize how essential it is for
one to truly visualize his goals. This means not only identifying them, but
having a vision of how things will be when those goals are achieved, and fully
committing to those visions. Zig Ziglar stated that this way, "If you want
to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you
actually arrive."
1. True visualization involves far more than empty rhetoric, and
lip service. It means that a leader must actually see things in a specific
manner. Many of us remember when President Kennedy, during his Inaugural
Address spoke of seeing things as they ought to be, and it is precisely that
type of positive, intimate, motivating vision that propels potentially great
leaders to true greatness. One of the most essential tasks that successful
leaders must accomplish is to motivate others to follow a vision. This can only
be done when the leader sees his vision, tastes it, and focuses on success, and
what precisely that means to him, and what it looks like. The greatest leaders
then communicate this on a humanistic appealing manner, so that others begin to
adopt that vision as their own. Only in that way, will the vision be meaningful
to others, and only when this occurs, will everyone work together, because the
goal and objective is so authentic and meaningful.
2. Success is a difficult concept to define, because it has a
different meaning, and represents far different things to different people. It
is even more challenging to understand success, because many people have
different concepts at various stages of their lives regarding what success represents.
However, the constant is that in order to achieve success, one must know in
advance what it means and represents, and that must be important enough to
continuously motivate and encourage us to strive for our best efforts and
accomplishments.
Everyone says they want success, but few ever identify and
visualize what it means to them. As important as this is to us as individuals,
unless a leader uses this concept, there is little chance to achieve leadership
greatness.
With over 30 years consultative sales, marketing, training,
managerial, and operations experience, Richard Brody has trained sales and
marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared
as company spokesperson on over 200 radio and television programs. He's negotiated,
arranged and organized hundreds of events.
Richard's owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, and Director of
Development, as well as a consultant. His company Website ishttp://www.plan2lead.net, and he
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