Self-Leadership: How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out

CHAPTER 7

Personality, Strengths, and Motivation

Always be yourself, express yourself, havefaith in yourself; do not go out and look for asuccessful personality and duplicate it.

—BRUCE LEE

A definition of self-leadership that the authors have often used is:

Self-leadership is having a developed sense of who you are, what you can do, and where you are going coupled with the ability to influence your communication, emotions, and behavior on the way to getting there.

Let’s break this down to fully understand it. If you were to be asked, “Who is Jennifer Lopez?” you would likely respond, “A singer or a judge of American Idol.” If you were to be asked, “Who is Leonardo DiCaprio?” you would likely answer, “An actor.” It is interesting that when we ...