faace ur demons

The bad news is that leadership is hard. Being a better leader (and growing your business requires you to be leader) means not just learning, it means changing and growing. You. You need to change. You need to grow. And real growth involves facing those demons. If I want to embrace the path to better leadership, I need to identify those demons, and vanquish them. This is no easy task. My fears, my need to control, my bogus convictions about myself and other people — this is the shape that some of my demons take. I see them in my clients as well. I know that they create deep problems that cannot be solved by the best employee or the right numbers. I have needed to face my issues, and keep facing them, in my own life. It is not easy. It isn’t even something I want to do. But I want to see the benefits of healthy leadership in my business; I am convinced that in order to see those benefits I need to commit myself to that grueling and sometimes ugly work. And so do you. You need to do the hard work of recognizing your shortcomings, your weaknesses, your blindspots — things that have been holding you back since you were young — and facing them head on. Being a better leader means growing up, maturing (even if, by measure of years, you are already mature) and getting over yourself. For all of us, there are experiences that are hard, painful, things that we avoid. Leaders don’t avoid these things. Leaders don’t work around them, or pretend they don’t exist. If we are going to meet this challenge we can’t avoid them, we have to face them.