Position and title don’t make a person a
leader. You don’t need to be a mayor or a president before you become a leader.
You don’t need to be a manager before you become a leader. Anyone, even as an
ordinary student, a farmer, an ordinary employee, a brother or a sister, you
can be a leader!
Being elected as an officer of an
organization, a society or a company is an opportunity. It is given to you
because you are perceived to be a potential leader. Position, as well as title
is like a vehicle. It speeds and boosts up your leadership capacity. It enables
you to connect with others having similar designation.
It is good to have a supportive team when
you take a leadership role. You can’t do everything. You have to delegate
certain tasks to certain people. These people help you become successful in
taking your tasks.
I believe that my leadership journey
started in my childhood as a big brother. I didn’t have the best things in
life. I didn’t have an ideal family. As a little boy wandering what had been
going on with my life, I knew I couldn’t be cozy or I would stay helpless
forever.
It was like living in a dark tunnel. I had
to find a spark of light to guide me through to get out of it.
My dreams were enough reason to get out of
there. As a kid, I dreamed of a lot of things. I still find it a mystery where
I got them from. God must have planted it in my mind. Or perhaps it’s because
of the longing of having them.
We didn’t have books at home. It was a
luxury to buy books that no one would ever read. I don’t remember seeing
someone from the family ever read something, except for Jai Alai ticket.
One day as
I visited my classmate’s house, there flashed in my eyes books that seemed like
golden acorns neatly piled on their shelves. Out of pure wish, I asked from my
father a set of encyclopedia on as a present my graduation. Of course, that
didn’t happen!
So, I kept
on dreaming and wishing about books.When I got a job after college, the first
thing I bought was a book, a fiction novel by Stephen King.
When I was
in high school, I promised myself that once I finished my studies and got a
decent job, I would help finance the education of my siblings.
So, I did!
Three of them are now college graduates.
That is how
my leadership journey started.
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