Leader's identity

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Welcome you all; leaders are not meant to walk alone, regardless of your stage of leadership.

This is the place for you to ponder the path between your mind and heart and enrich your encounter with others. There must be a reason you came here as a leader or the one who is venturing out the opportunities and subtle quests. We hope and applaud for your journey to meet what has been entrusted in your walk. You are more than welcome to leave your thoughts and reflections in the comments below.

leader's solitary moment

the intentional effort to be solitary for your soul

It was about 3.2 miles running downhill from Bay View Coffee Farm, Kona, Hawaii. On the way back, I decided to walk instead of running back to the farm. Unexpectedly, I decided to film the beautiful nature and a piece of mind about identity while walking on the beach highway.

There has been a group called Franciscans who emphasized their spiritual development based on their experiences in travels, creative arts and mind-fulfilling music, nature and conversations over coffee with a close friend. The beautiful scenic beauty of Kona island became an inspiration during my morning run.

Franciscans' inspiration in nature

Being solitary leads us to be connected with the inspiration which has not had an opportunity to be found in our views and mind. Because of the weight of the business of daily life and the busy mind in our mundane walk, we often miss the inspiration. However, solitary invite us to merge into the necessary and timely inspiration - sometimes, the solitary visits us unexpectely. In my leadership training experiences, some of my mantees shared how they were forced to be alone and it took a tremendous effort to move from being lonely to being solitary. When solitary forces us to stop us or slow down, it becomes an extremely challenging situation, which you would never intend or expected to be part of your life. During this unwelcome situation, we learn to listen to our inner voice and embrace the inspiration with tears and sorrow.

It is wise to intentionally and regularly place ourselves in the midst of quietness and solitude. The voices between our ears arise between 20,000 to 60,000 everyday. If we do not know how to captive our thoughts, those thoughts from the outside become our identity. At the begining, those thoughts, most of them are negative, destructive and toxic imaginative voices, were not our identity, but once we start to invite them and give them the power to control our minds, they became our identities. So, it is critical quality as a leader to capture one's mind to submit to the vision or value which is bigger than oneself. Many hires truth, faith and righteousness as the entity bigger than the self. The process of casting out wrong voices but inviting right voices is the way to discover one's truthful identity. David Banner says that identity is not what we create but what we discover it. And it requires to have proper and effectively personalized self-awareness. Although self-awareness does not guarantee that we find a healthy identity, it is impossible to get there without self-awareness.

To discover a true identity, the leader must be able to look backward and inward, particularly in two areas of life: upbringing and significant life events. However, it is ideal to invite a mature and accountable person to walk this journey together. It is such a blessing to find someone who has a genuine interest in your life. If you need this individual, Holistic Leadership & Life Research Centre encourages you to contact us to get connected with Dr. David Kang.

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