Six Tips In Preparing Yourself For Leadership

We are so fortunate at Team JP to have some of the most successful and amazing business leaders in the world supporting us.  In this post, Kerry Daigle provides some timely advice on what you need to do to prepare yourself for leadership.

Kerry is a contributing writer for THE ACADIAN, a public speaker, an author and life coach specializing in mental fitness. He has recently co-authored two books titled, YOUNG, SLIM, FIT AND SEXY and MASTERS OF SUCCESS along with numerous CDs and audiobooks. Kerry’s blend of wisdom, experience, and personal humility come together in unique and powerful insights that impact everyone he comes in contact with on a daily basis and believes everyone can truly have success in their lives by making a few changes.

Thanks Kerry... and enjoy the read everyone!

So many people want to help others with their business and financial life. To do so, you have to prepare yourself for leadership and continue working on yourself. There are six crucial tips that I have learned from my mentors over the years. I would like to share them with you and would like you to share this piece of information with your peers and friends.

As my mentors would ‘teach’ and ‘mentor’ me I would always ask , “Why can I do to repay you?” and the answers were always the same. “Pass on the information we give to you to others and that will be the way you can repay us. That is how we were taught by our mentors.” Wise advice.


Tip number one: Become an avid reader. The person that doesn’t read books is no different that the person who can’t read. That quote made so much sense to me early on by one of my first mentors, Maw Maw Daigle. She knew this was a crucial part of growing as a person and also growing as a businessman/businesswoman. Why did she feel so strong about this? Simple. She couldn’t read. In fact, she could not speak English but she knew this was a tremendous talent many people had that was very seldom used. Think about this statistic. I was told through a research that the average person reads one book every two years. If you would only read ‘one’ book a month in your profession you would be 24 years ahead of the ‘average’ reader. Pretty powerful statement, isn’t it? Books sell on the average for $15 to $25. They should sell for $2500 or more. Why is that? Simply because each author/writer is giving you information on a particular subject matter they have 10, 20, 30 or more years experience and success in and put that information in 200 pages more or less. What a bargain! The power of reading the right books. All books by Og Mandino are suggested.

Tip number two: Have mentors in your life. Find successful people you want to mentor yourself after and study their every move. If you don’t know them personally research them. The internet is a valuable tool to research anything or anyone. Read their books if they authored any. If you can sit with them, be certain to watch how they interact with others and the things they say and do. Great teams have coaches. Great students had great teachers. Have mentors in different areas of your life. The key here is to ‘choose wisely.’ A great book for you to jump start yourself would be RICH DAD; POOR DAD. A MUST READ!

Tip number three: Attend seminars,workshops, and events promoting sound business practices and personal development leadership. Buy CD’s and DVD’s of teachers and trainers in your field and watch and listen to each audio/video program no less than 21 times. Make their message part of your life and your daily thinking. Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Jim Rohn come to mind. They all have wonderful material on audio.
Tip number four: Here is a key element that was probably never taught to you. You have heard the quote, “KNOWLEDGE IS POWER”. I beg to differ! Knowledge is not power. The secret is APPLIED KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. Applying what you have learned is the secret to success. Just because you have a degree in a specific field doesn’t mean a whole lot. What is important is for you to apply what you have learned. This will make a dramatic turn around in your life. APPLY what you have learned from reading books, listening to CD’s, watching DVD’s, attending seminars, and having mentors. Knockout Entrepreneur by George Foreman is a book that will make you think that ‘anything’ is possible.

Tip number five: Join clubs and organizations and become a professional networker. Work your hardest to be the best networker you can. In doing so you will meet so many different people from different walks of life that could one day literally change yours for the better. Be part of a charitable organization and learn how to ‘give’ rather than ‘receive’. That alone will bring many rewards. Networking Success is a great book by Anne Boe to kick off your lessons in networking.

Tip number six: Find some quiet time in your life on a daily basis. 30 minutes a day to reflect on your day and your future. Visualization is crucial. If you can see it in your mind……you can believe it. We have powers within us that are so powerful but so seldom used. The subconscious mind does not know the difference between reality and visions but our minds will make us behave in a manner that we think we should live our lives by.

Click here and watch a short series of videos by my business mentor and a legend of the Direct Marketing Industry Mr Jim Rohn - Jim has helped 1000's of people in our industry across all the various opportunities and was one of the most sought after business development coaches before his untimely passing in 2009.  Watch these videos and understand the things that you need to do to get yourself to where you want to be:

http://www.teamjp.org/2008/12/business-mentoring-jim-rohn-have-your.html