Stay One Step Ahead
I started a new book this week entitled Expert Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Converting Your Online Visitors into Lifelong Customers by Russell Brunson. I have read several of Brunson’s books so it was really easy to pick this one up and dive into it.
“People are silently begging to be led.” – Jay Abraham
If you have felt the call, the pull, the responsibility of leadership, I hope you find this Jay Abraham quote encouraging. In this simple assertion, Abraham is empowering leaders - don’t shy away; don’t let the humility inside of you be so strong that you actually hold yourself back from stepping up to lead. Grab that leadership position and pour into people to teach them and help them get what they want out of life. People come to work for you with the expectation for you to lead them at work. But what they don’t know to tell you – and what they really want – is for you, their leader, to lead them in more aspects of their life and make their whole life better overall. That’s what a true leader does.
If you have been called to be a leader, step up and be one!
Don’t let the fact that someone is better than you stop you from helping others.
Brunson asserts that you don’t have to be the best at anything to lead; and you certainly don’t have to be the best at everything. You don’t have to be the best at something to train or to teach it. All you really have to be is one step ahead of those you lead. I do this constantly with my own team. It may sound like I am the smartest guy in the world on a particular topic and that I know everything, but the reality of it is that I am just one step ahead of them– only one step – most of the time. And when you are one step ahead of others in your organization, you are then in the position to reach down and pull them up to your level. Your leadership responsibility then pushes you to take one more step up, one more step ahead. And when you are at a higher point than the rest of your team again, reach down again and bring them up with you.
Just remember –you always have something to teach your team. Find those areas in which you are one step ahead and share that knowledge with others.
Never stop training.
Never stop teaching.
Never stop leading.
Don’t let feelings of insecurity or humility get in the way. Rather, when you feel you are a step ahead of others, pull your team up to your level. You should always seek to help them grow to a higher level – it is a responsibility of leadership.
You never need to be perfect. Just stay one step ahead of everybody else. Be excited to take the reins and look for opportunities to add value to people’s lives – pull them up to you, with you.
Written by Schuyler Williamson
REALTOR. Leader. Veteran. Business Owner. Investor.
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God Bless!
~ Schuyler Williamson