Do a quick Google search and find out just how many articles
there are about leadership. In my search I found 458 million results. The
messages, facts, figures and ideas out there can be pretty confusing,
terrifying and down right discouraging. It left me to wonder if I could ever
really get there and truly being a leader. Then it hit me.
There is one thing that you need to be a leader. It’s you,
your personality, your dreams and your aspirations.
If you are looking for proof, consider what I said before,
there are 458 million articles out there alone about leadership. Not to mention
all the subsequent topics that goes along with it. Yet so few if any suggest an
idea that could change everything, what you need to be a leader is you. How can
all of them be right and how can we be everything they tell us to be? The one
thing that we can be, yet we are so often discouraged to not be is our self. We
are unique, we are special and we all matter.
Leadership needs a redefinition for most of society. It is
not leading a group of people with power or by title; it is leading people by
being yourself and your own personal journey. Need proof, let me tell you a
story about Bo Johnson from Door County in Wisconsin.
Bo inspired people he never met to do more, be more and give
more. It was because of his spirit and drive that over $75,000 was raised by a
community. He helped lead people of all ages to see the positive in life, love
and give back. Bo has touched people to truly look inside them selves and see
how much they matter. How much more of a leader can you be? Bo never had a
title, was never given the position of leadership but still managed to change
the world. Bo never graduated high school; in fact he never lived to graduate
high school. Bo had cancer and passed away after a long and courageous fight.
Bo followed his heart, decided to be himself and he was able
to change the world. It does not matter what age you are, where you have been
or what you have done. You can be a leader by being yourself because you are
enough.
