What Do Leaders Do As Often As They Can?

By Darryl Mobley

They learn new things! Did you know that 5 years from now you will be exactly where you are now --- exactly the same person--- except for the people you meet, the audio programs you listen to, and the books you read.

What my company has found through our research is that super achievers habitually read and grow using audio programs, DVDs, magazines, seminars and books. They constantly push themselves to seek out the best new thinking available and apply it to their life and to the way they operate. They engage in an ongoing process of development for continual improvement.

The fact of the matter is that information is doubling every four years in the United States, and communication is increasing in speed daily. If you are not engaged in an ongoing process of learning, you will quickly fall behind and become obsolete and irrelevant. We cannot afford to fall behind in the race for information. We must engage in the process of continual improvement and expanding our minds. People who are not expandable are expendable.

Expand Your Mind

It does no good to read things that do not cause you to expand your mind. Lazy reading material and constant TV viewing leads to a lazy mind. Read about the great thinkers. Read about the great leaders, read about the people who have achieved great stature and great personal power. Personally, I love reading about inventors. As you read about them the way they operate will literally become embedded in your mind and you will start to replicate the good things, the positive things that they have done. Study the super achievers.

You must put into your head things that cause you to grow and expand. It was the great educator Booker T. Washington who said, "There is no great education which is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women." You can get into contact with great men and women through both audio programs and books.

If you spend your time absorbing lazy mindless slop or watching mindless TV you will develop a lazy, good for nothing mind. It is the same with your brain and body as with computers: crap in equals crap out. You must engage in a process of continual learning.

Become A Well-Known Expert

Another tip, read a book a week. It is not really that difficult to do, if you put your mind to it. Do you know that if you read a book a week in the subject area of your choosing that at the end of two years you will be one the foremost authorities in the world on that subject? You will be able to write your own ticket. Yes, through weekly reading or listening to audio programs or viewing DVDs or going to seminars for the next two years, you will be one of the foremost authorities and you will never want for income or job opportunities.

People who are the experts are always in high demand. A reporter once asked Malcolm X, "What's your alma matter?" Malcolm X told him books. Malcolm X goes further to say you will never catch me with a free 15 minutes in which I am not studying something I feel might be able to help people.

On a day to day level you will find that your ability to quote relevant sources as you talk to your associates gives you much more personal power. People who use quotations well show that they are involved in the pursuit of relevant information and therefore worthy of being listened to and followed.

© 2008 Darryl L. Mobley

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