Your Difference Is the Strategy: Leadership redefined, reclaimed
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By Stela Murrizi
Leadership is a nominalization that must be defined. You cannot put a pound of “leadership” in your car; you can only define and redefine how you hold its meaning inside yourself.
How you define a nominalization inside yourself shapes how you use it and replicate it in the world. Given this, it is time to notice if the way you define leadership gives you permission to create the world you want to live in, or if it holds you captive to historical and perceptual limitations.
When you think about ‘lead/leader/leadership’, what comes to your mind? Is leadership, as you have been taught to know it, something that excites you about being a leader in your own life? Are you attracted to and excited by the experiences (and the results!) that these notions have birthed?
The long-standing notions of leadership prevail, not necessarily because they’re useful or effective but because they’ve been around for a long time and we can recognize them, as such. They’re there; they’re familiar to us and in truth, we’re not quite sure what else to do instead. That fear of letting go keeps us caught in the grip of manifesting the same-old when we crave the creation of a very different world.
Your time has come to notice what matters most to you: creating the life you want to live or replicating the life that’s been outlined for you?
Given that leadership is a nominalization, if we denominalize ‘leadership’ all that’s left is experience – and experience can only occur in the body. When we consider ‘leadership’ as an experience in the body, we can no longer separate the idea from our capacity to engage it.
This is critical.
So then, how else might you redefine this notion of leadership so that it holds meaning for you in the creation of your meaningful life?
The time has come to incorporate the quality of your life into the definition of how you hold leadership. It is time to replace ‘leadership’ as a theoretical framework with the intuitive and essential Self.
This is a paradigm shift “from the inside, out; from a platform of internal referencing and unique creation; and from a reclamation of all that is ‘female’ and exceedingly potent in its intuitive expression” - Louise LeBrun.
All in all, if you are serious about creating an authentic life that brings you joy, you must awaken to a paradigm (mindset / context) shift that gives you the opportunity to notice that redefining how you hold yourself as leader is not about a particular technique or strategy for ‘doing’ but a framework for ‘becoming’.
Becoming your you-est you is your ultimate superpower.
Reclaiming your Boundless LeaderSelf™ means reclaiming our inner cues as the most potent Force of Creation of the life that we desire.
Your power comes from living from the inside-out as a guide in the creation of your meaningful life. Your superpower comes from your willingness and ability to check in with yourself to make decisions that align with your intention, before you check out with another.
There are infinite experts out there who will tell you how you should fill-in-the-blank. If you were to turn to the experts at all times, you might find yourself confused in a sea of seemingly infinite and often contradictory perspectives.
So, what’s a gal to do?!
I say: turn the full measure of your attention inward.
Check in with your intention.
Check in with your impulses.
Check in with your body.
Once you do, this will become the platform from which you then engage and make choices that align to who you are. In other words, to create an authentic business, you must first become authentic. In doing so, you create a life of meaning.
This is only possible when you mindfully and intentionally stay connected to your inner cues to guide you.
The time has come for you to begin to listen to your inner cues to guide you, paying particular attention to how becoming a leader in your own creation requires only that you show up trusting your inner cues to guide you. The point of power lives within.
So I invite you to now consider the following throughout your day. Nothing for you to do but get curious about yourself.
Pause and ask yourself: Does the way I define leadership feel aligned with who I truly am—or who I’ve been taught to be?
Where in your life are you’re leading from performance instead of presence?
Regularly pause and redirect: am I making a choice from the depths of my belly, or from an external expectation or belief systems that says “I should”?
Wherever you are in your journey of evolving leadership — pause, and shift your attention inward, then choose. The outcome of that? You may find yourself living a more meaningful and joyous life.
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