Do you ever struggle with the fact that the buck stops with YOU in your business?

Sometimes, especially if we’re not used to being the boss, we can struggle with making decisions. But when you have a business, you need to step up, step into your power, and be a leader – even if you’re only leading yourself.

In this episode, my friend Karen Gunton and I explore this idea of self-leadership, and discuss ways to overcome the challenges we may face along the way.

 

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Quotes and highlights from this episode:

  • Self-leadership promotes internal validation and following your own path.
  • Take ownership of your own creative business journey.
  • “You have to be your own white knight, your own super woman… It’s up to us to make those decisions” {Jess}
  • Be prepared to learn skills and lessons time and again.
  • “The very things that we think that we have figured out on the journey comes back again and again and again” {Karen}
  • Self-leadership focuses upon the how. How will I do it? What will be my strategy?
  • “If we don’t have strategies in our tool box for those things (challenges) it is really, really hard to make what we’re doing a success” {Karen}
  • Grow self-leadership through:
    • Building awareness. Determine a big challenge you need to strengthen.
    • Establishing how. Ascertain what concrete steps to you need to take.
    • Observing and evaluating. Reflect on what happens as you instigate a change plan.
  • Pick and choose techniques to help you on your self-leadership journey.
  • There is a time and place to ask for assistance and guidance – cultivate a number of trusted advisors.
  • Take the time to reflect on yourself and what makes you tick.
  • Jess and Karen both recommend Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies habit framework.
  • Clarifying your why is self-leadership. You decide your path and progress.
  • Karen and Jess discuss different paths to understanding your why.
  • “If you have a longing for something more… the only person who is going to get you there is you” {Karen}
  • You don’t need to have all the steps sorted out – just start.
  • “It’s not a tattoo… you can change, tweak, adapt and grow” {Karen}
  • Karen Gunton | Book: Lighthouse Revolution (This site/resource is no longer available)

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