Amidst today’s ultracompetitive business landscape, personal leadership mastery is critical.

Becoming the best version of yourself is a competitive strategy that enables you to reach the pinnacle of success, and it begins by helping you to see the world in a way you have perhaps not seen it since you were a child. Unfortunately, as you grow older, you often find your vision clouded, limited, and restricted. You become preoccupied with day-to-day affairs that hem us in and make us shortsighted. You fail to see new ways, the abundant opportunities that exist in variety around us. You are saddled with society’s definition of success; you become what others want you to be.

Before you can begin to develop your own personal leadership, you must recapture your natural childhood enthusiasm for life, for its abundance, and for its opportunities. But success is an empty promise and a false hope unless you understand that personal leadership, winning behavior, and successful living are learned processes. You can acquire personal leadership habits and self-confident attitudes by following a concise pattern that can be learned and employed by everyone.

Who you are today is a consequence of the thoughts, instruction, and influences that you have been exposed to in the past. It follows naturally, then, that by changing and managing your own thoughts, instructions, and influences, you can determine who you shall become in the future.

First, you must understand how your early childhood and familial conditioning have impacted you and the person you have become. It helps you better understand the way you are now.

Second, you must believe in your ability to grow and become the best version of yourself. 

You will begin to understand the process by which you can retrain your thoughts and your actions, so that you may achieve true personal leadership and set high standards or exceptional performance.

Personal leadership begins with knowing where you stand now. It leads to the discovery of where you want to go. When you know your needs, your aims and desires, and, most of all, your dreams, you are then able to dip into the wellspring of human motivation to set goals and to achieve them.

Successful companies — the best companies — are led by successful people who exhibit a healthy self-image and leadership behavior. Those who are less than successful exhibit a low self-image and a follower syndrome. The behavioral differentiation between them is an attitude — a confident self-image plus the ability to accept responsibility for their own actions. Personal leadership then is primarily determined by attitudes. If personal leadership is dependent on attitudes, it obviously is internal. It is expressed in commitment to a course of action that is personally fulfilling.

When you realize you have been conditioned to accept certain limitations and barriers, the final frontier is developing the ability to break limitations and overcome barriers through positive, creative attitudes. Learn more at Achievable.com.