Fixing Stuff Around Yourself
Being disciplined and well maintained is also a very prominent trait of leadership. We were having a course regarding leadership skills though Amal Academy in which there were many skills and tips mentioned that should be adopted by oneself to be a true leader. Leadership is not only all about reforms at a very large scale where one might change the whole social system or bring about prosperity for his/her nation, it’s also transforming ourselves in terms of thoughts and behavior into a better version.
Therefore, starting at the individual level, I thought to change myself first in order to attain the leadership skills. For this purpose, I started from a very little activity in which I arranged all my books in my book shelves that were not arranged in an adequate manner. I thought that we must keep our surroundings well maintained and clean because this act reflects our own way of being disciplined that is the very first step towards leadership.
The books in my shelves were not placed in a proper manner and I used to face a little difficulty to find one, whenever I needed it. So, I thought to arrange them in a specific order like, I placed the most recent ones or those books that are in my routine use, on the very top of the stack and those that I’ve read already which might be needed after sometime, placed in the bottom. In this way, I arranged almost 5 stacks of books. Each stack was of different theme of study e.g. general knowledge books were placed in their own stack and course work books were arranged in theirs. I have also attached the pictures in my blog to analyze the situation, before and after arranging them.
This activity brought a sense of self-discipline in me that I can reform myself and my belongings at least. And this activity was proved very thoughtful for me and no doubt that I have done this, many times before, but, always upon a specific event like, if I couldn’t find my required book only then I have arranged them. But, this time I have learned that I must do this periodically in order to keep them in such an efficient manner. This is termed as everyday leadership without being on a specific position or post.
So, this was a very little activity that I performed while working out on myself in order to have self-realization and self-reflection, because these are the small units of character building which ultimately lead a normal person to be a leader. And this leadership is termed as leadership without authority, that, you should be a leader of yourself at least and be the best version of yourself. So, I would like to write here that, if you think that you are not that able to lead a troop of people than lead yourself first and how to lead yourself, by self-discipline, self-refection and self-realization.
