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Due to the popularity of Leadership's Edge first episode, we bring it back again!

Leadership is the most important factor in moving our world forward. I believe in what I call personal leadership. Whether you have a business or you have a dream, you are the leader of that. And your success in your business, in your legacy or even in your personal life comes down to your ability to successfully lead it. This show is going to dive into the mindsets, the tactics, and the strategies that are going to help you take your leadership to the next level.

Today, we're going to talk about what I feel like is one of the most important factors in leadership: worthiness. It is your ability to accept your own value. Most people that I have worked with over the span of 16 years, and even thousands of people from all over the world, all struggle with this concept of worthiness. When we doubt our value, one of two things happens. Either we never gain the love and respect that we desire, or we do gain all of those things, but they never feed us the way that they're really supposed to. And so either way, you lose.

As a leader, first and foremost, you are creating whatever it is that you're creating. Worthiness is an inside job and most people have it backward. Most people are looking for their value externally and that becomes a problem because your value is your value. No one else can give that to you. No amount of money will validate that for you. A big opportunity that I see from a leadership standpoint is to be able to create a wave of leaders who feel deeply worthy and create their reality from a deep-seated place of worthiness. Think about what I call the ROI, the ripple of the impact that would create.

Worthiness comes down to your identity. At an early age, we begin to believe that our value is conditional. You'll get a toy if you're good, we will give you a car if you get good grades in school. It also creates what's called a performance-based identity. You perform for your value. Now the danger there is that what if some of those things change? Does that mean that you're no longer worthy? And so the question that you have to ask yourself is, what is my worthiness story?

The goal for this episode today is for you to saturate into the idea and truth that your value is unconditional. If we are desiring a different future, then we must internally change first. I want you to take a moment and close your eyes and sink into this feeling of I am worthy. I am enough. I unconditionally accept and love myself and just let yourself feel how that feels. It might feel a little awkward at first, and I encourage you to just be okay with that.
Where are the areas in your life where your worthiness has messed you up? Is it money? Is it relationships, or is it just your own relationship with yourself? Where has your worthiness story held you back? And then let's ask a new question. If your worthiness story was different, what would that part of your life look like?

For a long time in leadership, there has been this concept that leaders must sacrifice themselves. I believe in sacrifice in the right context, but I do not believe that your happiness, your fulfillment, and what it is that you truly desire to be, to do, to have, and to give as a person should be sacrificed.

Your job right now is to decide that you have a new story. It is your job as an individual to claim as much of your worthiness as possible to deeply believe that you are enough - because it’s going to create a world that yields results and makes an impact.

The majority of our leadership has led from a place of lack. Now it's time to usher in an era of leadership that gives and creates from a place of overflow. You get to be part of the future where whether you're leading a company or leading a legacy or just yourself individually, you get to lead and live from overflow because you know that you are enough. You know that you are worthy of everything that you want to give and receive.

Today’s episode is all about you being worthy. Everything that you want and desire is possible. And it's inevitable if you are willing to take responsibility for it and to accept your worthiness.

If you are a visionary leader who wants to quantum leap your impact and leave a legacy of achieving the impossible, I am here and the world is waiting. Email me at shannon@shannongraham.com

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