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We are all leaders and all called to some type of personal leadership if we are paying enough attention. We influence each other tremendously, by either maintaining and reinforcing the pervasive ideas that create our collective worldview or by challenging them. It would be great if we could trust our world leaders to make decisions that are in alignment with a life sustaining value system, but sadly, we are clearly headed towards increasing economic and ecological crisis. Real hope does not lie in an election, but in our individual ability to check in with ourselves and ask what leadership really means to us. What does it mean to take personal responsibility for our lives?

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Our outer world is a reflection of our inner state. Our outer world is in chaos. The incentive to create inner harmony is that our individual lives will become outwardly harmonious and we will be contributing to the world positively as a result. Personal leadership- doing what is right for us in our individual lives- will always result in an outwardly harmonious life and will always be a positive impact on the world.

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How do we know what our personal truth is? In addition to taking inventory of our personal values, simply checking in on whether our decisions are empowering is always a good barometer. What areas of my life are disempowering vs confidence building? family. romantic relationships. work. physical health. my life's alignment with my future goals. When we are on the right path, we feel good. It's that simple. When we are off track, our negative emotions or experiences will serve to realign us.

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When we become identified with an injustice in the world or our own negative emotions, we are allowing ourselves to become disempowered. There is corruption in our world leadership and there are a lot of unhappy people in the world. This is a fact. It is also a fact that there are people who are living fully in a "flow" state, a harmonious state that consistently offers positive reinforcement. These people invariably take on leadership roles in the world. The more we are living our lives fully, the more fun we will have and the more rewarding our lives will be.

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Hard work is nothing if it is not creatively inspired. It is brutal and often meaningless for people who have adopted this "crack the whip mentality" to either get ahead or even to challenge the status quo. If it doesn't feel good, it's time to change directions. This does not mean we will not pass through fire when we are on our true paths. It only means the fire will be cleansing and necessary and we will know it at the time.

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"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls".

-Joseph Campbell