This document outlines 10 steps for developing leadership skills from self-realization to self-actualization. It begins with defining who you are and building on your strengths for self-realization. The steps then discuss differentiating yourself, setting clear goals, stretching yourself, branding your personal brand, helping others, and enjoying the present for self-actualization. Quotes from various leaders are provided for each step.

1. Leadership 101:
From Self-Realization
to Self Actualization
Jessie Paul

2. Self-Realization

3. Step 1: Decide who you are
“Life isn't aboutfinding
yourself.
Life is aboutcreating
yourself. ”
- GeorgeBernard Shaw

4. Step 2: Build on your strengths
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in
running after swift but synthetic happiness.”
- Abdul Kalam

5. Step 3: Differentiate or Stagnate
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over”
- Mark Kassof

6. Step 4: Justask
“Every moment of your
life is infinitely creative
and the universe is
endlessly bountiful.Just
put forth a clear enough
request, and everything
your heart desiresmust
come toyou.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

7. Step 5: Control theVariables
“The highest manifestationof
life consists in this: that a
being governs its own
actions. A thing which is
always subject to the
direction of another is
somewhat of a dead thing.”
- St. ThomasAquinas

8. Self-Actualization

9. Step 6: Goal yourself
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands
your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your
hopes. ”
- Andrew Carnegie

10. “If you want something done,
ask a busy person to do it.
The more things you do, the
more you can do.”
- Lucille Ball
Step 7: Stretchyourself

11. Step 8: Brand You
“And I'm not an actress. I
don't think I am an actress.
I think I've created a brand
and abusiness.”
- PamelaAnderson

12. Step 9: Help others
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we
are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if
each of us hires people who are bigger than we are,
we shall become a company of giants. ”
- David Ogilvy

13. Step 10: Enjoy Maadi
“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without
anxious dependence upon the future.”
- Lucius AnnaeusSeneca

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