THE MAKING OF A LEADER
People often say “comes a great position, comes a great responsibility” and also to become a leader is not a child’s play. Moreover “Rome was not built in day.” To become a leader requires activity that includes many processes. The process which are involved is similar to achieve who was given birth to yesterday, can that child start speaking the same day, walk the same day and doing some other things that same day. Growth and development naturally evolve gradually and mature overtime. The same goes for the making of a leader.
When a child is born, he/she is adequately fed for the growth purpose and through this; he requires energy that should carry him through life. When he is expected to start walking or doing other necessary things, and he does not, he become a problem or liability as so many people call it to the parents.
Some people often complaint that they are not successful because they are from poor family background without any financial support of the parents and also because of lack of education. However, all these are not reasonable reasons to give up in pursue of success. Many who are presently leaders in our country today are from naturally poor background without much financial help and no moral support.
Certain tips bring about success in leadership. The tips could be given as “discipline”, “determination”, and “diligence”. Without all these three things, no one can become a leader, and also a successful one.
Right from the early stage in life, one must be determine to reach the top or else all hopes would just be like a dream. Determination is getting one’s mind made up to accomplish or tackle a particular task. This could be in the area of education, personal endeavour and religion. This will give such individual the ability to set goals and work hard at realizing the goals such a person with great firmness of purpose and hard work will definitely reach the top.
The second tip is discipline. There is need for self-discipline in order to indicachieve what one has determined to do. Such a person who has the determination to reach the top must not engage in all the things that other people do which make them static. Others may spend their time engaging in unnecessary discussion and play, overreacting, moving about aimlessly and not having a workable timetable except accompanying with bad guys. An intending leader is a disciplined one which must have been cultivated right from childhood all through to adulthood. No indiscipline person can reach the height of a leader unless he/she will fumble at the top.
The third thing is diligence. As it is often said “the hand of diligent beareth rule.” The fact remains that the leader are always the diligent ones. They must carefully plan and work through their plans. All these are not achieved in a day, but are being imbibed into one’s life as one grows. The fact that one has failed before does not limit ones chance of becoming a leader. It however calls for more carefulness and extra effort to reach the top.
One of such is the all time greatest America president Abraham Lincoln who failed many times before becoming a leader, but what took him to the top was his determination, discipline and diligence.
ADELEKE ADEMOLA
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