“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” ~ Edmund Lee
Can we ever overvalue the importance of our inner circles? I don’t believe we can. If our inner circle is so important to our success, while impacting every aspect of our life, how do we keep it exceptionally healthy? Doing so will give us the opportunities to enjoy the fruits it produces through the Laws of Attraction.
First; keeping our inner circles healthy requires us to bust our asses making sure we are constantly growing toward our potential. As we work toward our potential, we will observe changes taking place in our inner circles. Pruning, for example, takes place when those in our inner circles aren’t able to keep up and they self-jettison themselves from our inner circles. Caution: the reverse also takes place when we’re not able to keep up with other leaders’ inner circles.
Second; always give more than you take, long-term. In the short term you might only be able to give or just take, depending on your current environment and circumstances. Over your lifetime, the deepest members of your inner circle will give much more, not necessarily in quantity, but in value, to you, often at the timeliest moments in your life. The giver gets the greatest gift; the ability to give, not to receive.
Third; most of us need to wipe clean our prefilled slate of false or misleading scripts that we’ve been given or have learned, often beginning from birth, on how to live our lives, who we are, who we choose to be with, etc. Scripts are the predetermined biases about what is right, wrong, this way, that way … you name it. If we’ve chosen the right people for our inner circles (which changes as we grow as leaders), they will help us re-write the scripts that can lead to a wonderful, fresh, amazing lives. Your heart, not your head will help guide you in making these jugular decisions.
Being a leader in an organization or personally is often a lonely path (and lonelier the higher your potential). This is particularly true when it comes to pruning some branches from our inner circle. During your amazing journey through life, if you’re a 9.5 (10.0 = the theoretically perfect leader), on your road toward your optimal impact level, you are likely to surround yourself with 6.0 to 8.0’s. However, if people in your inner circle max out at anything less than a 9.0, eventually, you’ll replace them with 9.0+ people, while you are pursuing your optimal self.
You’re on a quest to be the most significant leader you can be, given your Talent Portfolio and overall potential. This next sentence is critical to understand. It’s not about you and the self-centered benefits you can reap; rather, its about being the most significant, high-impact leader, given your Talent Portfolio, in order to positively change other people’s lives.
What an enormous responsibility! The gift, in return, is the privilege to lead a purpose-driven life!
Who changes the world? I believe it’s almost exclusively the Top-7%. They are the only ones with the Talent Portfolios and social consciences needed to actually implement significant positive social impact. If you believe you’re one of these executives, we’d love to explore possible opportunities.
Get Making A Difference! ~ JR