What you need to be a leader.tle

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.