“Leadership is a choice, it’s not positional, it happens wherever you are, it starts with the person in the mirror, and it’s a habit, it’s a process.” Tom Ziglar recently shared his thoughts on Leadership with me. “Anybody who is capable of leading themselves is capable of being a leader of people.”
Tom was led, and mentored, by many people, both in person, and “virtual.” The obvious mentor was his father, the late Zig Ziglar who influenced over 250 million people in his lifetime. Zig and others such as Dave Ramsey, Seth Godin, and Rabbi Lapin, are all considered mentors by Tom, and he receives “…assurance in rough waters, confidence when decisions need to be made, balance…” and states “mentors will lead with questions.”
Leaders must have a vision and be able to communicate it to others so they want to pursue it, too. “True leadership is dream alignment, …creating a way where they can achieve their own dreams by helping you achieve yours,” says Tom. This is how he is building Ziglar’s legacy and helping others build theirs. “Legacy is a transference of habit, and great leaders simply know habits that make them great leaders. So the way we create great leaders is we teach people the habits that they need to lead themselves and lead others.” This is the thrust behind Tom’s life changing program, Live To Win.
“Influence and example” are two ways in which we lead. “The better our example is, the more positive influence we can have, and you have to do three things first before you can create the right influence and the right example:
1. “You have to have the right mental input, to have the right mindset.” Focus on the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful and the positive was what Zig Ziglar said. What are your inputs? You can’t sow corn and reap beans. You can’t sow garbage and reap personal growth and leadership. You must sow to reap, and you will reap more of what you sow, to your mind.
2. “You’ve got to have the right spiritual foundation. What are the non-negotiables?” What are your true core values, your purpose, mission and vision? “What does faith mean to you?” Are you building significance and legacy for your life?
3. Physical. “It’s either under-magnified or over magnified, “Tom says. Our health, how we take care of ourselves, our appearance and how we “walk in our life, because that either multiplies or divides our effectiveness.”
Tom concluded, “So when we do those three things, when we put the right things in our mind, …when we are developing the right qualities of success, have the right faith, and we have our physical world in place, …it maximizes the potential of our influence and our example.”
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