triiibes retreat: Brenegar on The Flow of Leadership

• I’m sitting in on “The Flow of Leadership: Purpose, Community and the Discovering the Good Life: How to develop flow in your life and your work!” with Dr. Ed Brenegar, Ph.D. at the 2012 triiibes retreat in Ventura where he asks us “How to find  your life purpose?” You need to find something to be committed to that is
•  personally meaningful
•  socially fullfilling
• makes a difference, that matters

He proposes we take on a life of leadership by learning on how and where we are leaders arlready and strengthen that and build on that, and form a community to support each other.

Leadership is about taking initiative. It’s not about being an authority, or being in charge but taking charge.

What do you bring to the table to contribute? Be confident! Don’t be afraid!

Here are some very very rough notes:

Create an impact

live your values

show a tangible sense of what you do and how you live your values

use your imagination

have a vision, a sense of where you’re going

see what’s taking place see things in action

how do we do this??

5 questions that create situational awareness

how am I in transition? what has changed?

see the logical change in progression in your life

write down the changes your observe

ask yourself: what is my impact, how am I impacting people, what is changing because of the things that I did, who am I impacting

what are opportunities I have because of the impact I’m having

what keeps me from keeping the impacts that I desire

what problems have I created for myself

to lead is to take initiate and make a difference that matters

if this is what we do… it changes the complexions of every interaction we have–business, family, community

build a community around these ideas, a community of people committed to one another which is different than a network–at a deeper level

it’s not about the network but the community and the relationships

now I’m off to the next session!

Tags: life purpose