Leadership is a STATE not Status🔗

LEADERSHIP is a STATE of BEING not STATUS. Your state is irrespective of the status. It will never change, no matter what the status is, no matter what the size of the team is, etc. It will never change no matter what issue or problem comes in front of you. The status may be taken away, but never the state. It is about being MATURE enough to handle responsibility. Then status will simply follow the leader. Maturity and state is not dependent on age, technical knowhow, intellect, industry, etc.

Most of us achieve the status of leader but not the state. State is different from status. Status comes from society. When you are leading a group of people, when you are forced to take responsibility out of some department or if you take responsibility out of greed, status comes but state is totally different.

When I say state, I mean the inner space or being should be mature enough to handle what you are entering in, or the responsibility which you are assuming. When we just get the status without achieving the state, then we will be struggling with all the corporate world problems. When we don't achieve the state, but just achieve the status, then we will be faced with personal level stress, tension and at the level of the team, back biting, politics, etc starts happening.

We have to achieve the leader consciousness and not just status. One has to achieve the state of leader, not just status. Status is very easy. State is something which we really need to achieve. For a man who has achieved state of leader, status will simply follow him. Even if it takes some time he will not be bothered. He will live like a king. His very life will be totally fulfilled and the feeling of the fulfillment which is invaluable happens to beings who achieve the leader consciousness. The word state of leader means a man who is ready to take the responsibility consciously. It means a man who is read to handle life consciously and one who is not consciously dependent on the past or memory for decisions.

So one should focus on achieving the STATE then qualities and status will automatically follow. Status can come and go but State will be permanent. Be established in the immovable, unshakeable State true to your own self, then status will start following you.

If you are dependent on past or memory to make decisions, then you will be a follower not a leader. You will not be leader. Responding spontaneously to situations is what I call responsibility. A person who is able to respond spontaneously to the situations, a person who is fresh who continuously keeps himself in present and who is not caught in past. Such a person who is not lost in past can make spontaneous decisions.

Each one’s leadership state will be unique. A leader will be established in Truth, which means being true to ones own self and not an imitation. The first decision to make is to have the courage to be Unique and authentic to your inner Self.

A lion and elephant are both strong leaders. A lion not knowing that it is a lion may be fascinated by the elephant and if it tries to imitate the elephant, it may become a fox instead. Similarly, a swan and eagle are both leaders, but a swan trying to imitate an eagle might turn into a crane instead. Newton can never be Einstein. Similarly, you cannot model yourself into some leader. You have to return to your true state to reveal your innate uniqueness which is pure leadership expression in its own way. We limit ourselves when we try to follow the personality rather than their inspiration to awaken our potential.

So give up the exercise of practicing some one else’s expressions or some one else’s qualities. Just become sensitive to your own nature and see what your true self is, beyond your logical understandings of dos and don’ts. This in no way is an indication to break any laws, but a deeper understanding and tuning yourself to yourself rather than tuning yourself to conditionings of media, society and jumping on the band wagon.

A True Leader is not determined by the number of followers he has. A True Leader is determined by the number of Leaders he gives birth to.

His very presence will exude truth and inspiration at first to follow HIM and then He gives no choice. You have to stand up and become the leader in your own right. He does not rest and will not let you rest till you start radiating your true potential. He is not interested in followership. He is interested in helping you in uncovering the true potential in you.

Only a good leader can give birth to leaders. At the end of the project He delivers a few good leaders also as bi-products of the labor. If not he would be just a project manager. A good leader is someone who leads out of pure joy and inspiration to inspire others. He provides solution instead of support. If the leader moves on to some other project or dies, neither the task nor the team will suffer or collapse.

A good leader creates paths using the tasks for each individual to become a leader. He inspires each one to produce and express their potentiality and creates a kshetra. A kshetra is a team or organization or community or a group where people are working out of deep fulfillment and need to express their creativity. Each one knows what has to be done and they enjoy each moment by doing so. They enjoy the path not just the goal.

A leader will constantly express his freedom and inspire others to express their uniqueness. Freedom is to be liberated from the so called logic and borrowed qualities, instead just being a true expression of the experience. So focus on achieving the STATE, then qualities and status will automatically follow you where-ever you go.

Feeling anything less than a leader, just by comparison is low self-esteem. Each one is a leader in ones own right. The tip is in finding that out. Not being bull dozed by competition and comparison and instead having the inner strength and individuality. To be able to encourage and inspire others also to be established in their innate strength or creativity is true leadership.