Everyday Leadership: Fixing stuff around yourself
Whenever I came across the word leader, first thing came into my mind was a big boss. I always thought that leadership is an authority to lead a group of people or organization. However, Amal fellowship changed the definition of leadership for me. I came to know that leadership is not about authority, it’s not a designation, it’s not to bring big changes but it’s all about taking the responsibility. No matter wherever you are or whatever you are doing, the time you take the responsibility of anything and accomplish it, you become a leader. I started thinking from new perspective of becoming a leader of ourselves. To take a responsibility, to work on our own weaknesses and as a leader try to change them in to our strengths. Similarly, taking responsibility of our surroundings and trying to fix things. Instead, anyone giving us a responsibility or an authority, we shall feel the responsibility and take the initiative by our own to do leadership in our everyday life.
To practice everyday leadership, I was given with the task “Fixing stuff around yourself”. The time I was reading the task, I was sitting in my lounge. I looked around to find the things which were needed to be fixed. I saw a ladder, which I have ordered online a few days back and it was still there instead of store. Then my eyes focused on the folded carpet, which also needed to be placed in the store. I took both the things and placed them in the store. Before that project, whenever I looked on both the items, I said to myself, “ok I will fix them after doing this or that” but instead of performing this task immediately, I used to delay it. This was because I was not taking it as a responsibility and prioritize them but during the project, I took the responsibility and fixed them. After placing them to their original places, I felt so much relaxed and there was a feeling of achieving something. I realized that how leadership works in our daily life. To become a leader, you need to take the responsibility on your own and start fixing the things in your surroundings and bringing positive changes without any authority and assigned tasks.
