Leadership is influence—nothing more and nothing less.
And if you interact with people, guess what? You influence them.
You can’t interact with someone and not influence them.
Therefore, it’s time you started looking at yourself as a leader.
This, in and of itself, has the ability to change your whole demeanor.
Next, you must carefully reflect on how you’ve been using your influence.
- Are you influencing people to become better versions of themselves or worse?
- Are you using your influence to promote more good in the world or harm?
- Are your means of influencing based in love or hate?
It’s time we stopped looking at leadership as a role reserved for a select few.
It’s a role that each of us gets to embody in full each day.
The question simply becomes: will you own it?