{"id":5923,"date":"2017-08-28T12:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=5923"},"modified":"2017-08-28T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:48:40","slug":"3-ways-your-inner-world-can-sharpen-your-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/28\/3-ways-your-inner-world-can-sharpen-your-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Your Inner-World Can Sharpen Your Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"

The health of your inner-world directly affects your ability to lead effectively.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leaders are often uncomfortable in dealing with their inner world; matters of the heart. But\u00a0<\/strong>the health of your inner world has a direct and profound bearing on your effectiveness as a leader. <\/strong><\/p>\n

If your inner world is in order you will project a light, optimistic nature which buoys the spirits of everyone around you. But if your inner world is dark, uptight or depleted, that is precisely what you will project. And followers flee from such leadership.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the good news. To a very large extent, the health of your inner world is entirely within your control, or at least influence. Your inner world is fed by whatever you expose it to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is why it is so important to pay close attention to these three key diets of a healthy inner world:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your media diet<\/strong><\/h2>\n

How much destruction and devastation do you expose yourself to every week via television and internet news services?\u00a0 Over-exposure to the horrors of today\u2019s world will deplete you.<\/p>\n

The alternative is not to live in some na\u00efve bubble, closed off to the real world. Just be careful you\u2019re not gorging yourself on these images to the detriment of your inner world.<\/p>\n

Your relational diet<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Your relational world is filled with inner-world fillers and inner-world drainers. You can\u2019t avoid toxic people all the time, but you can limit your exposure to people who drain you.<\/p>\n

Your entertainment diet<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Last year a season premiere of one of the most popular shows on television left tens of millions of viewers feeling \u201cempty\u201d, \u201cdepressed\u201d and \u201cdevastated\u201d, according to countless Twitter messages. (You can guess the name of the show).<\/p>\n

Leaders can\u2019t afford to over-indulge in such depleting entertainment.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a bible verse that guides my leadership in this regard; \u201cAbove all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.\u201d (Proverbs 4:23).<\/p>\n

The people you lead deserve the best \u201cyou\u201d you can offer to them.<\/p>\n

And giving them your best begins by giving yourself a well-nourished\u00a0inner world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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