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Introduction

Leadership is a skill that everyone should develop and cultivate. Being a leader does not necessarily have to mean being a manager or a politician – it could also mean being a thought leader, or even just being a great parent. The ability to inspire, command and guide others is something that is incredibly valuable and that can help you to accomplish more and even raises your confidence and self-worth.

In this guide, we’re going to examine what it takes to be a leader by looking at some of the most important traits that history’s greatest exhibit. Every leader is different and part of your journey to becoming one is going to be discovering your own ‘leadership style’. With that said though, there are still definitely some common traits that you can develop and some lessons we can learn from influential figures from history. And what you’ll find is that in some ways, the most
important aspects of being a great leader are not what you would expect.

I hope this guide will change the way you approach leadership and thereby help you to drastically improve your own results.

1. A Great Leader Does Not Need to be Liked

Should a great leader be feared or liked?

The answer is that it doesn’t really matter. What’s most important is that you focus less on trying to be everyone’s friend and more on getting results.

Ultimately, a leader is someone who is trying to accomplish a goal by leverage the power of their team. If your goal is to increase turnover, then you are a good leader if you increase turnover. It doesn’t matter if you are liked along the way.

And sometimes you will have to make hard decisions or break bad news. You need to be willing to do that and not to concerned with how it makes you ‘look’. For example, if your superiors tell you that you and your team are going to need to work late, then you need to pass on that information and not make excuses. The temptation here is to complain along with your staff, to whine about how unfair it is and to make rude comments about the capabilities of your higher-ups.

All this does is to make you look unprofessional, to damage the enthusiasm of your team and to make everyone question the rules they’re being asked to follow.

This is one of the biggest problems with politics too. In order to get re-elected, a leader needs to make positive change in a short space of time so that the electorate can see the results.

The problem is that some projects only yield results over a long period of time and might even hurt the economy in the short term. Making those decisions would be political suicide and so our country is only ever putting out fires, never growing! This is something that a few famous leaders have managed to break away from. Arnold Schwarzenegger most recently discussed this and the value of being willing to make hard decisions.

You don’t have to be unpleasant, but be willing to let your reputation take the hit when it needs to!

2. A Great Leader Takes Responsibility

The reason you need to care less about how others see you, is that this then allows you to take responsibility. You might be passing on orders but for all intents and purposes those are still your orders. Own them and don’t apologize.

Likewise, when things go wrong because your team was working too slowly, you need to take the flack with your superiors and take responsibility. You were leading them, so if they didn’t get the work done, that’s your fault. Throwing your colleagues under the bus will again only make you seem weak and like someone who makes excuses!

What’s more important, is that by taking responsibility for targets not being met and mistakes being made, you are creating a safe ‘buffer’ for those beneath you. They know that they can make decisions and do what they think needs to be done and not worry about the possible repercussions. You’re probably getting paid more than them, so it’s your job to occasionally get shouted at!

This extends even further to taking responsibility for your own actions and decisions. Leaders make decisions quickly and with confidence and that’s not because they always have the answers, but because they’re willing to take the flack if their decisions prove to be wrong.

The worst thing you can do as a leader is to force your team to make hard decisions. Looking to politics for an example again, we can consider the recent decision of David Cameron (England’s ex-prime minister) to vote on whether or not the country should leave the EU.

This was a decision that most analysts agree the country was ill-equipped to make. In this case, politicians were letting the general public do their jobs for them and the consequences may prove to be devastating. Meanwhile, leader of the opposition at the time (Jeremy Corbyn) was famously non-committal in his views on the subject, losing much of his party to lose faith in him. This is in stark contrast with Nicola Sturgeon – who most would agree is a much stronger leader – who has made her views on Scotland leaving the UK very clear.

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Introduction

When considering cupping treatment, It is important that you comprehend exactly what cupping is and how it can help you.

Cupping is a natural treatment that uses pressurized glass or bamboo mugs to give a tender vacuum on your skin, which will help assuage torment, evacuate poisons, and numerous different things.

It is a conventional Chinese medication that has been utilized for a long time as a part of the past and is turning out to be more prominent nowadays.

Cupping treatment supporters trust that wet cupping expels destructive substances and poisons from the body to advance healing. These are sufficiently malleable to be moved from spot to put on the skin and produce a back rub like impact.

To help you comprehend who will truly profit by this treatment, the following things are a portion of the diverse wellbeing conditions that it will help with:

1. Cerebral pain - Many individuals feel migraines, however a high number of individuals experience them a considerable measure more. This treatment will help mitigate the torment from migraines and keep you from having them to a minimum.

2. Back Pain - Do you feel pain in your lower to center back? In the event that you do, then you will most likely profit by this treatment as the back is an integral part of the therapy process.

3. Aching Joints - Cupping will help to alleviate torment from your muscles and help them be more adaptable.

4. Rheumatic sicknesses - There are numerous individuals that experience the ill effects of this condition that have discovered this treatment extremely advantageous for them.

5. Sleeping disorders - If you discover yourself not having the capacity to rest, then this may be the response to helping you rest. Numerous individuals with a sleeping disorder have profited enormously from this treatment.

While there are many benefits to cupping, there are some things you will need to consider before you start cupping therapy.

The Side Effects

You could experience the following side effects:

Burns

Bruises

Mild Discomfort

Skin Infection

You may also experience markings. After a cupping session, you will have round marks on your skin (this is left by the cup). Most markings should vanish anywhere from a couple of days to a week.

Who Shouldn’t Use Cupping?

If you are pregnant, you may want to avoid this form of therapy and those individuals who have steel implants, such as pacemakers, insulin pumps, or computer implants should avoid this form of therapy. Also, those with severe bleeding disorders, including thrombocytopenia and those will allergic skin reactions should avoid cupping.

What’s Used

An extensive range of glasses continues to be found in the procedure today. The form of mug used furthermore depends upon the kind of illness to become treated.

The Type of Jars:

There are a large variety of jars, the ones used most common clinically are listed below:

Bamboo Cup: It is a cup made out of a joined section of bamboo that is 6 to 10 cm in length and 3 to 5 cm in diameter. The rim of the cup should smooth and polished prior to usage.

The advantages of a bamboo cup are its length, economical, easily-made, and durable. The disadvantages are its fragile structure, which can cause leakage when exposed to dry conditions for a long time. Apart from normal daily usage, a bamboo cup can also be used for drug-cupping by boiling it in a medicinal liquid.

Pottery Jar: This kind of cup is made from pottery. The body of the pottery cup has a large belly, a slightly smaller mouth and the bottom is shaped like a drum. The advantage of the pottery cup is its ability to create a strong suction. However, it is heavy and easily breakable.

Glass Cup: The glass cup is different from the pottery jar, as it comes in a variety of sizes. The glass cup is unique in that it is transparent, and skin reactions can be easily observed and controlled. On the downside, it is delicate, which can be easily broken.

Piston Air-Sucking Cup: The piston air-sucking cup is made out of transparent plastic with a piston inside. The suction is created by moving the piston upwards to draw air into the cup. This type of cup is convenient as well as providing strong suction. It is also difficult to break or damage it.

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Total Bodyweight Transformation

Do you want to get into the best shape of your life?

Have you tried and failed to get into great shape in the past?

Do you struggle with training programs that involve going to the gym 5 days a week for an hour at a time and starving yourself of carbs and other tasty foods?

Don’t worry, I’m not about to try and sell you something. Far from it! Rather, I’m recommending that it’s time you used something that you already own. And something that’s entirely free: your own body!

Bodyweight training is the perfect solution when it comes to building muscle, losing weight, getting fitter and improving health all round. This is the answer that has been staring you in the face all this time and it can work where so many other methods have failed in the past for a number of key reasons. Read on and we’ll see just why bodyweight is the very best tool for transforming your body and mind.

The first thing to recognize is that any training program that involves going to the gym several times a week is almost guaranteed to fail.

The way to look at it is like this: if you’re currently out of shape, then it’s probably because you aren’t being active enough and aren’t getting out of the house enough.

The question you need to ask yourself then, is why that might be. Could it be that you’re overly tired and don’t have the motivation after a heavy day at work to go and beast yourself at the gym for an hour?

Could it be that if you’re already tired and stressed, fitting 5 hours of intense exercise into your regime is going to be destined for failure?

And what’s more, is that going to the gym five times a week takes a lot more than five hours. Rather, going to the gym five times a week is much more likely to take you a good 8-10 hours.

That’s because there’s a lot more involved in going to the gym.

First, you get home and you have to pack your gym kit. You then have to get in the car and drive/find a parking spot, or cycle/walk when it might be cold and wet. You get to the gym, get changed and then start working out. After your 45 minutes of training (and chatting to the trainers and other gym goers), you then have to go and have a shower. We’re now probably at 1.5 hours easily and you’ve yet to get changed and get home yet!

Then you have to fit cooking dinner around all of that and you have to wash all the extra washing you made by getting sweaty and working out. This all takes work and it all takes energy.

And your energy is finite. You’ve just added 8-10 hours of exertion to your tired week, as well as more washing, more expense… it’s a huge amount to ask!

Okay then, here’s an alternative: why not just create a home gym?

Sure, you could do that. But here’s how that goes:

You need space to store all of your stuff

You need to get everything out each time you want to train and put it all away

You need to spend lots of money on equipment

It takes time to build up a big decent collection

You need to make sure you’re not in anyone’s way and you need to debate with your other half about spending that much money on equipment

That’s assuming you don’t live in a small flat where creating a home gym will be completely out of the question!

So in short, this takes a lot of time and effort too and it’s not something you can easily just ‘dive into’.

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Minimalist Living: When Less is More

In this day and age, many of us are under the impression that ‘more is more’. Western society has led us to believe that the secret to happiness is to have more stuff and even to feel inadequate when comparing what we have to what our neighbors have, or what people on television have.

So what is the answer? To get more and more ‘stuff’ and constantly feel like that next purchase is going to be what changes everything? Or perhaps to try and ‘let go’ of that need for stuff and to find ourselves feeling more at ease as a result?

As you might have guess from the title of this short report, the answer lies with the latter. But the key is how you go about achieving this mindset. How do you stop yourself from constantly wanting the ‘next big thing’ and how precisely does this make you a happier person? Let’s take a look…

Are You Stuck in a Loop?

What many of us don’t realize is that we’re stuck in a kind of loop or a ‘vicious cycle’ that may be preventing us from ever being completely happy. The reason for this, is that we are so fixated on material possessions, that we’re willing to sacrifice all of the other things we need to be happy.

Think about it: if you’re like many people, then there’s a good chance that you currently feel over worked, stressed, exhausted and perhaps that you don’t spend enough time with your family, or enough time doing the things that you really enjoy. You get home late after working until 7pm and then you have to cook, eat, get washed and tidy the house all before bed time. It doesn’t leave much space for spending time with your family, or for pursuing hobbies and things that interest you.

Which is why, when you see that flashy new suit or dress, or that stunning new car… you feel tempted to buy it. You need a ‘win’. You need something to feel good. And so you go ahead and you make the purchase.

But that often means that you had to pay on credit card, which might mean that you’re now in debt. Or perhaps it means that you had to take out a small loan even. That then creates more stress and so the only way to make it go away is to work harder.

How Did This Happen?

What doesn’t help is that many of us equate success with career success. A successful person is someone who has a flash car, who wears nice suits, who has a Rolex and who is in a position of power and importance in their workplace. Nevermind whether they’re actually happy.

Advertising reinforces this view. Models on the covers of magazines look beautiful thanks to all of the expensive health products they use. To smell like Jonny Depp (and thus find love), you need to spend $50 on cologne. And to feel like you’ve accomplished anything in life, you need a TV that’s at least 34” wide. Nevermind if you actually get time to watch it.

Without meaning to sound like a conspiracy theorist, this is a status quo that greatly benefits the government and that benefits any capitalist economy. The more you feel dissatisfied with what you have, the more you work and the more you spend. That means you’re channeling more money into the economy.

It also doesn’t help that everyone else subscribes to pretty much the same view. Take a look at your neighbor and you’ll likely find that they’ve bought into the same notion. They too probably have a massive flat screen TV, nice car and important sounding job. Their home is probably filled with expensive trinkets from their travels. Nevermind if they only get to travel for one week out of 52!

This is partly down to simple human nature. ‘Social comparison theory’ states that we look to others in order to more accurately evaluate ourselves. In other words, you feel successful based not on how much money you have but on how much more money you have compared with your neighbor. And with the models wearing the Rolexes on TV…

Studies show that if you compare yourself to someone who has less than you, then you will be happier. If you compare yourself to someone who has more, then you will become dissatisfied. The irony is that it doesn’t matter how much you actually have, as long as you come out well during the the comparison!

It’s All an Illusion – Time to Break Free

Stop and ask yourself if this is really what you originally wanted. You might be feeling great that you’ve reached a position of responsibility in your job and that you’re now able to afford expensive clothes… but was that ever your ambition to begin with? Or did the pressures of living force you into that position?

Is being the head of a stapler company really that exciting an achievement?

More likely, you probably started out wanting to be a rock star (to make music), wanting to create computer games, wanting to be an athlete (to play sports), or wanting to travel and see the world.

Maybe you’ve always dreamed of having a beautiful home.

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The 7 Step Blueprint To Rewiring Your Mind For Success

Consider the world’s most successful people. Or better yet, consider the people in your own life who you consider to be successful.

What do they have in common?

There are lots of things but a few points that may be coming to mind are:

- Drive, passion and determination

- Charisma, confidence – possibly looks

- Presence and swagger

- Courage and determination

- Creativity and inventiveness

- Positivity

These are the people who come into your workplace, looking fantastic and knocking it out the park every single day. The guys are dressed in fantastic-looking suits that fit them perfectly of course. The women are in pencil skirts with amazing heels that no one else would be able to walk in.

They look immaculate and they charm themselves up the corporate ladder. Maybe you’ve been around their house and seen that it is completely pristine and beautifully decorated. Maybe you’ve introduced them to your friends and they’ve been completely charming and magnetic.

You would hate these people… if only they weren’t so decent and great to be around! Which of course just makes it all the more frustrating…

But instead of being frustrated, you should instead try to be inspired. What is it that they have that you don’t? How can you go about accomplishing the same things for yourself? How can you be ‘one of those people’?

This 7-step blueprint will show you how…

Step 1: Know What You Want

The first step to success is to know exactly what you want. You have to know your passions and your dreams and you need to know what motivates you. It might sound simplistic but it’s something that all too many people are completely unaware of. Ask someone what their dream is and they might tell you ‘to make senior management’. That’s not exactly a very inspiring goal…

But what if you aren’t one of those people who has always had a singular dream? Who has always known exactly what they wanted? What can you do then to accomplish your goals?

To solve this problem, a good strategy is to think in terms of ‘visions’ rather than goals. What is your ‘vision’ for the future? Picture your perfect future and picture what life would be like if you had everything go exactly your way.

There will be some abstract concepts and some tangibles but either way, you can start to break it down into things that you can actually accomplish.

Another tip? Ask yourself when in your life you have been happiest. And what was it about that time that made you so happy?

Step 2: Break it Down Into Small Goals

Next, you need to break down that abstract vision into smaller goals that you can move toward. That means that you stop thinking in the long term and stop thinking about grand visions – instead you think about small steps you can take every day, or that you can take every week, that will help you to get to the point that you need to be at.

For example, if your vision involves being in incredible physical shape, then your daily steps might involve working out for 15 minutes a day, or perhaps eating 1,800 calories a day. If your goal is to be a best-selling novelist, then your small steps will involve writing a page every night.

Instead of daydreaming, it’s time to get realistic and to actually start implementing realistic steps to getting what you want. No more excuses!

Step 3: Keep Your Vision in Mind

While performing these small steps though, you must always keep that overarching vision in mind. This is what will have the emotional hook for you and it’s what is going to give you the impetus to keep going even when you’re tired.

And this is also why it’s so important that your vision be true to who you are – that this is really want you want from life and not what you think you should want – or what other people want for you.

Too often we chase after goals that we associate with ‘success’ only because that is what we have been taught. If your goal is to become CEO for example, then there’s a good chance that this is actually just your idea of what success should look like – rather than what you really want.