Leadership cannot be practiced.🔗

Leadership cannot be practiced. So give up the idea of trying to practice someone's qualities. It is your innate intelligence. It has to be awakened. It is not something you can learn or imitate. You cannot become a leader. You have to BE a Leader. If you look a little deeply it is such a relief, not having to practice a set of principles or rules. Normally we carry a constant irritation a subtle disturbance in us with a need to be like someone successful. The constant question why you are not able to express the qualities of the role models or why you are not like them even if you practice their qualities, the prescribed dos and don'ts seems to drive you. These ideas and concepts and pressures that we unconsciously clutch and hold on to is logic which is the blockage in our energy flow.

The first strong, deep understanding is to realize there is no need for you to practice and you cannot practice something that is not your own. This brings a tremendous relief, a tremendous relaxation and a tremendous energy is released into your system.

Leadership is beyond day to day logic. It cannot be understood logically nor learnt logically.

Intelligence and Intuition cannot be learnt. It has to be awakened. Being anything less than a leader, being anything less than your true unlimited potential is low self-esteem. It takes intelligence to respond spontaneously. When you act from intellect, it is predictable. Spontaneity is awakened when your intelligence is awakened. Spontaneity is a side effect of intelligence and awareness. Usually the less educated people are more spontaneous than the so-called educated people. The other day I heard someone narrating a joke they read on the internet which was brought to my notice which I think describes spontaneity in its own way. Three women -- one German, one Japanese and a Hillbilly were sitting naked in a sauna. Suddenly there was a beeping sound. The German pressed her forearm and the beeping stopped, the others looked at here questioningly. "That was my pager." she said. "I have a microchip under the skin of my arm." A few minutes later, a phone rang. The Japanese woman lifted her palm to her ear. When she finished, she explained, "That was my mobile phone. I have a microchip in my hand."

The Hillbilly woman felt decidedly "Low Tech". Not to be outdone, she decided she had to do something just as impressive. She stepped out of the sauna, and went to the bathroom. She returned with a piece of toilet paper hanging from her behind. The others raised their eyebrows and stared at her. The Hillbilly woman finally said- "Well, will you look at that, I'm getting a FAX."

Leadership cannot be possessed. It has to possess you. You will exude the leadership qualities as just side effects. You can neither practice nor possess it. It has to be awakened, experienced and expressed. If you try to practice something that has not become an experience in you, then what you may be trying to practice or express is a mere habit.

That is why it is not possible to achieve something that is not you. Instead what you are may be much, much, much, more than what you think you want to be. Qualities that are prescribed in programs and workshops cannot be practiced or possessed. They are side effects of leadership.