Imagine for a moment if you were never to take another thing personally again. Can you feel how much energy and effort would be saved? This is part three of a six part blog series of which I'm exploring Don Miguel Ruiz's famous work "The Four Agreements" (Plus One). Agreement 2 is Don't Take Anything Personally!

Agreement One from Don Miguel Ruiz's body of work and its application to Conscious Leadership. Words are powerful, they can create chaos and they can create peace. How you speak to yourself, internally and externally - dictates how you experience AND influence the world. This is part two of a six-part series on applying Don Miguel's agreements to leadership.

Don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements (plus one) are a great personal development tool to apply to leadership. Agreement One: Be Impeccable With Your Word. Agreement Two: Don't Take Anything Personally. Agreement Three: Don't Make Assumptions. Agreement Four: Always Do Your Best. Agreement Five: Be Sceptical, But Learn To Listen.

As a Conscious Leader, you are a PARADIGM BREAKER! And in order to be that, you have to TRANSCEND the current collective consciousness that underpins the very thing that you want to change. So what is collective consciousness?

YOU HAVE TO CHANGE to stay relevant. You have to change to succeed! You have to evolve. But the reason change is so hard, is not because change itself is hard - Change is the most natural thing in the world... Change is hard, is because your EGO doesn't like change. As a leader, change is absolutely necessary for you to continue to succeed. And Conscious leadership is the change you need!

It may seem like good culture is something that "just happens"... But this isn't the case. Culture can be deliberately created. What are you deliberately creating in your workplace? And what is your role as a Conscious Leader in workplace culture?

Being a Conscious Leader Requires Courage. Because this is NOT YET the norm. Being a Conscious Leader is still considered "radical". Conscious Leadership is not about being at the front, but being WITH your team and people... You recognise that you are not alone in the actualisation of your goals and successes.

Your goals can be more easily achieved by empowering your people. In this blog, we explore what impactful goals are and how to create them so you not only achieve your personal goals, but empower the people around you too.

As a leader you have a unique opportunity to be a highly influential (positive) person in the lives of your clients, team, workplace and other relations. But are you simply managing instead of leading?

Want to positively influence your people? Values-Led Leadership is part of the equation! Move from "just one of the crowd" to leading in your unique way and become an inspiration to those around you.