Dear friends,
Hope today has been a great day for you. Hope that tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and days after that will be a great days for all of you.
That is how we should face our days… with positive attitude. Because when we are positive everything that comes our way will be positive. It is the law of attraction, alike attracts alike 
If you start your day with hatred in your heart, negative attitude or even negative thinking; your whole day will be negative too. Believe me… It will. You will feel that you are a victim and the whole world is against you.
So start your day with a positive feeling. Smile even if you do not feel you want to and you will make your day and others worthwhile
When you are positive, people who are following you will be positive too. When you are always angry, your followers or your subordinates will in the end do the same too.
“People follow what they see not what they hear.”
Especially if you are a leader of your organization. Being positive is much more crucial.
Wait! I can hear you saying that you are not the CEO of your organization. Well, you don’t have to be a CEO or a manager to become a leader. A leader can emerge at any level of the organization. A simple definition of leadership is the ability to obtain followers.
Therefore even if you are at the bottom level of your organization but you have followers or people who admire you then you are a leader. And to become a good leader your need to develop good attitude.
It’s true that good attitudes alone may not be the asset that makes us a great leader but these good attitudes will help us reach our full potential. These will differentiate us from those who have wrong or bad attitudes.
Like what Walt Emerson said “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
One of the attitudes of a good leader is listening skill. You need to teach yourself to listen to people’s dreams, motivations, hopes, strengths and even weaknesses. When you listen, you need to listen with your heart not only with your ears. Your body language must shows that you are interested to listen to their stories. With this attitude, people will know that you care and then only they will follow you.
One simple trait in your handwriting that shows that you are a good listener is in the letter “e”. I am not saying that this is the only trait but as an example I am showing you the simplest.
People who write their “e” like the above encourages others input and listen with an open mind
However you must also remember that other traits or attitudes you have may reduce this trait in you. For example you may have this trait but you are also a stubborn person which will definitely reduce your good listening attitude.
Therefore the first step to become a good leader is, you must assess yourself, make the necessary changes for the better and people around you will follow to change for the better too.
Lets continue in my next post…
Take care and see you.
Hi there, how can i be a good listener? I wont consider myself as a leader as yet but i have a leader who leads us.
How can i make my leader listen to what we have to say. At times our department or you can say my colleagues and me tried some new ways of improving our routine jobs but leaders just wont want to adapt to the changes. They prefer to move on the old ways.
I think people need to adapt to changes first before they would want to open their ears,dont you agree. Correct me if i am wrong its just my opinion and my views. I may not be looking at a wider angle perhaps if you could. Need more guidance from you.
By the way as you say attitude do plays a part in a person.
Stay positive and smile as a start of a day. Thats a good one.
Thanks Khadijah. Nice to hear from you after a long while. You seem to be preoccupied. All the best in all your doings.
In my opinion if you want to move people to change, you must first move their hearts. Once you move their hearts they will be willing be willingly open their ears.
John C Maxwell said “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” When people understand that the changes you made is for their own benefit they will play their part and adapt to changes willingly
Nice to be back after a very long break