There is nothing wrong with being alone. Often, the best leadership is cultivated and refined in places and spaces of solitude, seclusion and silence. Every leader should spend time away from all of the outer influencers in order to really get to know and to hear from the one who seeks to enlighten, inform and uplift a leader from within.
Greater understanding and more knowledge is obtained when leaders withdraw to a place of quietness and sequestration. Quite frequently, choices are selected and decisions are made that have not been properly vetted and thought through because leaders are not emotionally or physically in an empty environment. Cluttered environments, crowded confines are the fertile grounds upon which leaders sacrifice and surrender their capacity to properly ingest and digest their thoughts and feelings. And when this happens, leaders suffer and those whom they serve suffer the most.
Leaders:
1. Find a place and a space to be physically alone. This should be a comfortable space. Not so comfortable that you find yourself sleeping, however, you shouldn’t have to spend all your time alone in your alone place struggling to get comfortable. The goal should be to enter int a space where you can rest your mind and your body.
2. Let your thoughts flow. I suspect that many leaders resist being alone because they don’t trust their own thoughts. Do not judge your own self. Just think. Pray. Leaders need to know that their time alone is not a time to judge or criticize what ever is coming out in the form of their thoughts.
3. Lastly leaders, chronicle your time alone as often as you can. Some of your best ideas will begin to pour out of you when you become intentional about spending time alone. What you capture has the potential to bring about very fresh vision and the changes and opportunities that had been needed personally and perhaps for the institutions and organizations that you serve.
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