Defining Leadership
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?
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. Our fear of letting go keeps us caught in the vice grip of an often stale and arid approach to manifesting a very different world.
- Louise LeBrun
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 power.
This is what the Boundless LeaderSelf™ audio material is all about: reclamation of our inner cues as the most potent Force of Creation of the life that we desire.
Far beyond ‘the five steps to’ and the ‘four quadrants of’, we leave the beaten path and head for the thicker, far more dense exploration of territory which has remained in some way, feral… wild and unrefined in its potential; and in other ways, endlessly fecund… and rich in its potency to create and bring Life!
- Louise LeBrun
The time has come for you to begin to listen to the audio files and pay 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.
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