Wednesday, April 24, 2019

“The Future You Already Exists — Start Acting Like It”

Sometimes I believe that whatever ones needs to be or dreamt to be , the glimpses of those can be done in your current role. Lets imagine, if your passion is teaching and you are part of corporate sales, well instead of throwing everything which you have done so far, and pursue a passion in teaching, might as well try to do it in your current role. Start with small things, teach sales or subjects which you like.


With technology so pervasive in today's world, you can do many things and wear many hats.
If I think CEO is what one want to be, then one has to first start behaving like one. Imagine, Create Visualise a perfect CEO and become that. Resources are unbounded because now you can direct anyone in the company to help you. You can delegate anyone. One who is not following you is a "challenge" which needs to persuaded by your vision and inspiration. Rise above everyone by becoming great.
First is to plan everything in advance. 

  • Your current role isn’t a prison; it’s a playground to express facets of your deeper calling.
  • You can prototype your future self right now — through micro-behaviors, small acts, and reframed perspectives.
  • Technology and interconnectedness have dissolved old boundaries; “either/or” has become “and/also.”

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That’s the essence of integrated living — evolution through context, not escape from it.

 Sometimes, I believe that whatever we’re meant to become, the glimpses of it already exist in our current roles — if only we learn to see them.

If your passion is teaching but you’re in corporate sales, don’t throw away everything you’ve built. Start teaching within your world — guide juniors, share insights, run internal workshops, or create short videos on sales mastery. You’ll be both selling and teaching — and slowly aligning your outer work with your inner calling.

Technology today lets us wear many hats. You can be a salesperson and a teacher, a manager and a storyteller, a coder and a philosopher — all at once.

If your dream is to become a CEO, then begin by thinking, planning, and leading like one now.
Visualize the ideal CEO you admire — strategic, composed, visionary — and act from that place today. Lead by influence, not title. See every colleague as part of your organization. Those who resist? Consider them your leadership test — to win through persuasion, clarity, and inspiration.

Greatness doesn’t arrive with designation.

It begins the day you plan, act, and behave like the person you aspire to be — with the tools and people you already have.

 

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