Lost in the wilderness?  Self-Leadership is your road map out!

So, you’re (reasonably) well paid and have a job title that demonstrates you’ve been progressing nicely through your vocational journey, and you’re now reaping the fruits of your labour.  Life it seems, is under control, yet for some strange reason, the destination just isn’t what the brochure promised!

This story is one we hear regularly.   So many successful people are looking for a more meaningful life either at work, post work or outside of work. It is more of a feeling that “there is more to life than my work is currently providing”, maybe some inner feeling of uncertainty, certainly some dissatisfaction at the way their organisation is led and run.

We, as predominantly professional people, are socialized into a journey of professional progression (equating to success).  This in turn often can lead us away from our passion, particularly as we move further up the rungs of corporate hierarchy.   In truth, the higher we climb, the further away we often feel from who we want to be, papering over it with increasingly levels of authority, responsibility and, well, stuff.

If you are one who is experiencing professional success whilst concurrently feeling uncertain, dissatisfied or even lost, perhaps its time to re-connect and take some small steps down the path to rediscovering who you really wish to be?

We’d recommend you ask yourself (and answer) two critical self-leadership questions, as highlighted in Robert’s latest book, The Business of Life:

1. What is my current (brutal?) reality?
2. What is my purpose?

Ironically, these two questions are the very same two we should be asking when leading organisations and teams.  Without knowing where we are and where we wish to go, we’ll walk around in the wilderness for ever more…