This document discusses proactive leadership and personal development. It emphasizes that personal leadership is the foundation for public leadership, and that everyone can work on becoming a better personal leader. It also discusses understanding one's inner landscape, with the body representing hardware, mind representing software, and soul representing the user. The document provides guidance on how to proactively change one's perceptions, thought processes, and actions by focusing on what is within one's control rather than what is not. Meditation and spirituality are presented as ways to stabilize consciousness and tap into one's abilities.

1. Proactive
Leadership

2. Not designation,
But disposition
Personal leadership is the
foundation of public leadership

3. “Sociologists tell us that even the
most introverted individual will
influence ten thousand other
people during his or her lifetime!”
- John C Maxwell

4. Everyone may or may
not have what it takes to
be a public leader, but
everyone can a be a
personal leader

5. “You get the best effort from
others not by lighting a fire
beneath them, but by building a
fire within.”
- Bob Nelson

6. Proactive
Active
Reactive
Proactive
Productive

7. Understanding our inner landscape
Three-level existence:
Body – Hardware
Mind – Software
Soul – User

8. Proactive
Change how you
Perceive: How we see our situation
Process: What is the worldview within
which we see that situation
Pursue: How we respond to that
situation

9. Perceive
Don’t eternalize the problem –
contextualize it
Life determines our problems – we
determine their size

10. Process
Our destiny is bigger than our
biology
We are parts of the infinite source
Play the part of the part & the
whole will fill the hole

11. Pursue
Be not tense – be intense
Transform anxiety into
intensity by focusing on what is
in our control, not on what is
not in our control

12. Power
Meditation is the stabilizer &
elevator of consciousness
Our spirituality increases our
ability to tap our ability

13. To know more
Questions
www.thespiritualscientist.com
Daily spiritual reflections:
www.gitadaily.com

14. Desire
Do what you desire or
Desire what you do
Journal to convince yourself of
what you want to do

15. Envision
Vision without action is just
a dream
But action without vision is
often a nightmare

16. Envision
Plans don’t always work,
but planning works
Eg clock vs compass

17. Endeavor
Practice makes one perfect –
provided we improve not
just our actions but also our
attitudes

18. What shapes our inner attitude?
Three-level existence:
Body – Hardware
Mind – Software
Soul – User

19. Pray
Endeavor + Destiny =
Success
Eg Farming – plowing +
rains

20. Pray
Change anxiety to intensity
by shift of focus
What is not in our control is
not out of control

21. Blitz
Our desires are often desires
produced by corporate-
media controlled media
Eg. “Torches of freedom”
propaganda

22. Pray
Meditation minimizes inner
friction & maximizes outer
contribution
Our ability to tap our ability is
increased by our spirituality