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Did you know that the beginning of effective leadership is the mastery of the most influential person in your life? Did you know that the most influential person in your life is you and that if you learn to lead yourself that leading others will come naturally? All of the great leaders in history became who they were because they were able to master themselves and gain control over their own vices and use them to their advantage. So how can you begin to master personal leadership and become a natural leader? To answer this question, there are three basic principles which you can begin to use right now.

The first key to personal leadership is to understand where you stop and where others begin. Too many people, even in being proactive, waste their energy being responsible for the perceptions, actions, emotions and opinions of others. This is a sure way to surrender your own ability to lead yourself and it's a dead end in the attempt to lead others. Begin by examining all of your motives and actions and seeing if you are in fact overstepping your limitations and trying too hard to change things which are not your responsibility to change.

The second step is to get proactive in relation to the things which you want to make happen instead of the things which you want to avoid. Simply being proactive is not enough, you have to take action based on where you want to be in five or ten years instead of thinking ahead simply to manage the potential problems which life may send your way. This is the key difference between people who are successfully proactive and those who are simply managing their life by what they believe that life is going to give them.

The final step is to create a well written action plan which allows you to measure your results but which is flexible enough to where you can adjust it as you move towards your goals. Any plan which does not have this kind of flexibility is destined to fail eventually and then you are stuck with the painstaking process of revising it. Not only that, if the action steps are small and measurable you will have an easier time correcting course as you move towards your long term goal and this will inspire you to persevere when things get intense.

Having all of these in place will ensure that you have one thing which will inspire people to follow you: a clear sense of direction which creates real momentum. As Napoleon Hill said, the world has a way of making room for people who can show that they know where they are going. If you are decisive about your path, people are not only more likely to get out of your way but they are more apt to follow you and to forgive you if you make a mistake. Then you will find that leading others is a natural consequence of personal leadership.