Rise Up and Become a Leader
As a gen-Y entrepreneur or business professional, hustle could be the most important word for you to know. We need to scratch and crawl to reach our goals.
To succeed in any area of life, hard work is the key to getting there. At times, all the hard work can feel like a never ending battle with walls closing in on you. However there is a missing nugget that can help you get past that wall when you hit it. What is it you ask?
Its simply rising up to be a leader. If you were ever part of a sports team (like me) you can relate to this. I’ve been a leader of a sports team and I’ve been just a teammate. I enjoyed being a leader much more because I knew that the fate of my team relied on my leadership and it pushed me to work harder with the focus of taking my team to the top. You can work as hard as you want but if you don’t have a direction your hard work, training, days of practice will go no where, and your basically on track for letting your results go on autopilot. The times I was just a teammate, I was an aspiring leader, it help me grow as a person and pushed me to work hard because I knew one day I would be leading the team.
When you step up to be a leader, something switches and you start to have visions (a direction), and that my friends is the first part of being a leader. Some people lead by example and some people lead with their voice, but to be a leader is simply standing up for your ideas and applying them. When you apply leadership to your hustle, it increases 110%, because not only are you working hard but you’re working hard with a propose and paving a road for others to follow (new opportunities).
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What ways have you stepped up to be a leader?
This is post 1 of the 5 part series Become an Epic Gen-Y Leader.
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Hello and welcome, I'm Tony Ruiz. My work revolves around learning and applying efficient processes, human psychology, Internet marketing, and user experience to web-based projects. You can learn more about me here.
I have become a leader through the various organizations I was a member of in undergrad (president) and sport teams (teammate). However, I think that you do not have to be the captain of a team or the president of a organization in order to be a leader. I feel that a leader can be that teammate or member who contributes by suggesting ideas and volunteering to take on additional responsibilities or roles. This person speaks up and goes the extra mile. They take the iniative and pulls that “teammate to the side for a pep talk”.
Monique, thats a great point. To be a leader doesn’t mean you need an appointed position. It simply means to voice your ideas and show you can take additional responsibilities. Teammates can definitely be leaders by contributing to the team and helping other teammates realize the team goal. I don’t mind being a team player as long as I can collaborate with others and have a clear vision where we’re headed.
I believe leadership qualities can accelerate the process of achieving goals because you have a supportive team with the same goal in mind. Leaders are visionaries and are always looking for ways to improve a situation.