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17Confidence and Leadership Stage 2

Welcome to this week’s message on leadership, self-confidence, and how to feel good about yourself everyday as you interact with people, in safety and comfort, at home and work.

Last week’s message was about Critical Step 5. Application. It is the fun step that allows you to display, and share, the positive view you have of yourself, and everyone else in this world, who will want to share your world with you. If you wish to be reminded of that message, it is also available back on the message page.

This week’s message is about the Cycle for Confidence and Leadership and how it impacts your life. It is the step that allows you to see that self-confidence, developed here, provides leadership skills that entitles, and allows, you to feel good about yourself everyday.

Look the Cycle over and you begin to see how it works.
Your spiritual dimension – that separates you from everyone else on the planet – gives you your individuality, your uniqueness; and yet, as a human being, it also gives you those traits that are shared by all other people.

Cycle for Confidence and Leadership

In future messages, you will be given in-depth understanding, and evidence of the background, on each of the stages of the Cycle so you can see why you feel good about yourself, or why you feel less positive about life generally. You can develop the skills that create great leaders.
Today is an opportunity to understand Stage 2.

Principles , the standards or rules of personal conduct , are governed by your conscience and reflected in your character. Principles can be shown to be part of your spiritual dimension.
You were born with an instinctive acceptance of principles and it is only the exposure to the rest of the world that starts to eat away at that acceptance.

You can test that with small children. Take a child that has not been exposed to intolerance, dishonesty or a lack of consideration, and discuss with them a plan to act in a negative way with one of those principles, and you will see the look of horror on their little faces as their own consciences tackle the problem of understanding why you would want to do that.

No one is born intolerant, untrustworthy, disrespectful, inconsiderate etc. Those are negatives that have to be taught.
You can also test that on yourself. How often are you in a situation where you feel an uncomfortable twist in your gut because of an action that you have, or are about to perform, that you know is not right?

If you breach the principles you were born with, you can expect a physiological effect telling you to step back and think again. The uncomfortable feeling you get is because you have not spent enough time doing the wrong thing for you to have become immune to your conscience.

And it is Principles that allow you to stand out as a unique individual of character. Think now of someone you admire and/or respect. Are they not persons you feel you can trust and/or rely upon? Now look at the principles that govern confidence – trust, respect and reliance.
You obviously would have confidence in those people.

And that is what people see in you, when you maintain connection to your conscience through Principles. That is when you are most easily recognised as a leader.
Because it is when you are true to those Principles, your character will automatically display them. You may know more about leadership than you realise!
That entitles you to feel good, and feeling good about yourself, and life, will attract others to you.

Please take the opportunity this week to think about the Principles that you believe are most relevant to you. Consider how you may have used those Principles to make your life just a little easier this week. That will go a long way to display to yourself what value you always place on the unique, incomparable person you are.

Please email me on how you have stuck by your principles to give you confidence in some area of decision making you needed to be certain of. Your stories – even short comments – are of great value to inspire others, and I would like to take the opportunity to include your stories, or comments, in upcoming episodes of ‘Special Interest Items’. They will be included as they fit into the theme of the message for that week.

Do you know anyone you can help with leadership issues, or just feeling good about themselves? Forward this message to friends and work colleagues; print it out and place it on notice boards, and give copies to those without computer access. Printing out, and compiling each weekly message in a folder, is a good way to build a total knowledge of self-confidence and leadership. It will provide certainty in dealing with every aspect of your life.

Next week’s message is an explanation of the first Critical Step to self-confidence and leadership. ‘The Recognition and Embracing of Your Own Uniqueness.’
It is a message that reinforces your value, and entitlement, to ongoing, continuous happiness. It will be followed over coming weeks by each of the other Four Critical Steps.

Until then, please continue to see yourself as a unique and remarkable person, who deserves to feel good about yourself every day.

Tony Richards.

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