Personal Leadership features as the core of everything for me.  It's the centre of everything I teach and everything I aim to demonstrate as I focus on leading by example.  It is also, in my personal opinion, the key to you  empowering your visions and transforming your life.  While I have my own innate understanding of what personal leadership is I am often reminded that there are many people who do not have a knowing about what it means.  Today I have decided to delve into this topic as the theme for February so I'll be sharing a series of articles over the course of this month to help demystify personal leadership for you, well the Creative Possibility version of personal leadership at least

To get started I feel it's important to tell you about my experience with personal leadership and how I came to be so passionate about it.  I can't exactly remember when it started.  In some ways it's a bit like I've always been interested in what I now call personal leadership.  It is, for me anyway, the deep seated inner drive we all have access to.  It's the drive that fuels your day.  The juice that keeps you flowing.  The magic that makes you sparkls.  It's the choices that you make.  It's saying NO when you know it isn't right and racing up and yelling YES when it's succulently perfect for you.  It's being a leader.  It's living your life on your terms.  It's about saying I can, I will, I do, I am.....

I know that when I'm not in relationship with my inner leader and therefore not engaged in actively living my brand of personal leadership that things are usually not function at their best for me.  It is in these times that I get stagnant, that I feel stuck, challenged, in pain, overwhelmed and just not 'right.'  Things are not working for me and business and my life are often looking pretty bleak. Have you ever had a moment where you just don't 'feel right' but you can't necessarily put your finger on it and put words around what's going on to describe it?  These are the times when you are not in relationship with your inner leader and not following your personal leadership path

What Is Personal Leadership?


"A deep seated, succulent, passionate desire, put into action, to empower your visions and transform your life by staying true to who you really are, aligned with your values, your purpose and your passion"
~ Shannon Bush
The sort of feelings and experiences I described are also signs that you're off track and not honouring yourself in an empowering way.  Time to get back to what it means to be you, and to take charge as the leader of your life, business, career and go out and grab your vision and squeeze it so tight it just melts into you as a divine reality

Personal leadership is, as you may think from it's name, a very personal experience.  My expression of personal leadership will be different to your expression as will the outcomes for both of us.  That is, I think, part of what makes personal leadership so empowering

I'll be back soon with more on this fascinating topic so until next time I wish you succulent, effortless success

Shannon
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Today is the Chinese New Year and we welcome in the year of the water dragon.  You'll probably see lots of articles about what that means and how to celebrate.  Did you also know that it is a new moon?  Now I'm not going to get all spiritual on you here but I do want to point out that this is a very auspicious time to welcome in and celebrate the new that you want to manifest this year

It's well into the first month of the year and if you've not yet set your intentions today's the day.  Forget the resolutions and instead focus on what it is you want that's new in your life.  You could write yourself a letter, create a list, paint it, make a collage or even create a ritual or ceremony to acknowledge and celebrate what is about to happen this year for you.  Doing this is your innovation challenge for today

It's only a quick post today... I've got new things to celebrate.  As always, feel free to share by adding a comment below.  Maybe tomorrow I'll share some of what I'm intending for this year

Be back tomorrow with the next innovation challenge!

Wishing you succulent effortless success,

Shannon

P.S. Can I also make a suggestion... as you get clear on the new you want think about the following question:
"How can this be easy?" and keep that in mind as you celebrate your new! 
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I've recently asked you to define a few interesting destinations.  We started with balance, then added some growth and success and now it's time for happiness

I seem to have had an ongoing challenge when it comes to gaining a mutual understanding about the source of happiness.  Some people in my life have made it clear that happiness is something they can give to someone else.  Ever heard the phrase "I can / can't make you happy"?  I know I've heard it.  In fact I've heard it, read it, seen it, and overheard it many times.   I feel sad that so many of these times it's been in the context of someone saying "I can't make you happy"

There seems to be a constant need to move towards achieving happiness and I get that.  Being happy is so important.  The thing is, how do we really be happy?  Earlier today I read a great article about happiness and choices.  This was after I'd had a great session with a client who's core passion is to help others to understand that we all have choices in life.  It seems so timely that these 'signs' all show up, one after another, in my day (got to love synchronicity) and therefore I figured it was time to tackle happiness in this destination series for the innovation challenge.  While the article effectively has a flavour linked to happiness and relationships, it's core message is about happiness being a choice.  That, for me, cemented my belief that our happiness is our own responsibility and that led me to decide to offer you the chance, through today's Innovation Challenge to ask the following;

  1. "What is happiness?"
  2. "What can you do to take responsibility for your happiness?"
  3. "What choice will you make that will take you closer to happiness?"
  4. "How will you know when you've got to happiness?"

That's it!  Easy hey?  (I smile with cheekiness as I write that last bit and wish you bundles of effortless ease defining and achieving your destination happiness)

Wishing you succulent, effortless success and a whole lot a happy

Shannon

P.S. One of my favourite things to say when I was little was "Smile coz it makes people wonder what you've been up to!"  ~ it's also a great way to show your happy self to the world and to see the world smiling back at you with happiness too!
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Following on from the destination theme of the past couple of days I have decided to devote today's message to helping you to define your destination success.  As someone who embraces and teaches what I know to be key principles to effortless success I often get asked to define success.  This is where it can get tricky.  I don't believe that there is one definition of success as I believe whole heartedly that it's a very, very personal thing.  What I write as my definition of success will not be the same as yours or the next persons

The term success is so popular and shows up all over the place.  You see it feature in personal development, psychology, health, business, education, sports, finances, relationships..... the list goes on and on

When you get to thinking about what it means to you - success - I think you could potentially end up with many different definitions, depending on what area of your life you are thinking about at the time.  What I do know is that your life experience, your path to this point, your environment, your 'map of the world' all contribute to your definitions.  These differences between us are to be celebrated.  It's the differences that make us unique and real.  It's what makes the world an interesting place and a place to explore and journey our own path to success and anything else we wish for
What do you think about these dictionary definitions of success;

Success is the achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted

Success is the gaining of fame or prosperityand the extent of such gain

Success is the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like

Success is the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors

Mmmmm.... not sure what I think about these!
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