Journal assignment

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Applying the Law of Respect:

  1. Think about the last time you asked employees, followers, or volunteers for a commitment to something you were learning or to changing something they were doing. What was their response? In general, how readily do people rally to you in either of those situations? That can be used as a fairly accurate gauge of your leadership level.
  2. Take a look at the qualities that help a leader to gain respect:
    • Leadership ability (natural ability)
    • Respect for others
    • Courage
    • Success record
    • Loyalty
    • Value added to others
  3. Evaluate yourself in each area on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high). One of the best way to raise your leadership number is to improve in each individual area. In one sentence for each, write a practice, habit, or goal that will help you to improve in that area. Then work for a month on each to make it a regular part of your life.

Applying the Law of Intuition:

  1. How are you when it comes to trusting your intuition? Are you a facts or feelings person? To become better at the Law of Intuition, you must be willing to trust your intuition. Begin by working within your areas of greatest strength.
  2. First determine which is your strongest natural talent. Second participate in that talent, paying attention to your feelings, instincts, and intuition. When do you know something is right before you have evidence? How can you tell when you’re on? Do your instincts in this area ever betray you? If so, when and why? Get to know your aptitude for intuition where you are strong before trying to develop it in leadership.
  3. One of the most important abilities in leadership is reading people. How would you rate yourself in this area? Can you tell what others are feeling? Can you feel when people are upset? Happy? Confused? Angry? Do you anticipate what others are thinking?
  4. If this is not an area of strength for you, then work on improving by doing these things:
    • Read books on relationships
    • Engage more people in conversations
    • Become a people watcher
  5. Train yourself to think in terms of mobilizing people and harnessing resources. Think about current projects or goals. Now imagine how you can accomplish them without doing any of the work yourself except for recruiting, empowering, and motivating others.