Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP • is revealed in one’s response to one’s environ ment. • is a perception of oneself and the world. • is the convictions that regulate one’s thoughts about oneself and one’s world. • is one’s personal, private philosophy of life. • is one’s thoughts about oneself and one’s envi ronment. • is one’s belief system, which controls one’s behav ior. • is the source of one’s actions, which determines the response of the environment. (In other words, your attitude determines how other people treat you and how the world responds to you.) THE SOURCE OF OUR THOUGHTS As I stated above, there is nothing as powerful as a thought or idea, but there is nothing more important than the source of our thoughts. Our thoughts are products of what we have heard or learned. What we derive our thoughts from determines the kind of thoughts we conceive and who we eventually become. If “as a person thinks in his heart, so is he,” then the source from which man gets the thoughts that he thinks is most critical. Therefore, as we approach this delicate subject of the spirit of leadership, which is essentially the thought-life of the individual, we must carefully consider the process by • is how you interpret the world. • is your mental conditioning.

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