To be a great leader, you must have a dream. Take your personal dream plan very seriously. If you spend the time well and expend the effort, it will change your life forever. Being very honest with yourself, do you have the brains, the aptitude and the talent to make your dream come true? Focus on the dream. Life is too short to be saddled with doing something you dont like.

Attitude is a little thing that helps you get the most out of life, and be successful regardless of what the odds might be. The only thing winners is up against is their own attitude. Attitude is very important for a leader, because attitude is everything. Our outlook must be that the glass is always half-full and never half-empty. However, be realistic about strengths and weaknesses.

There are three basic styles of leadership; directing, participating, and delegating. Choosing the correct style of leadership requires you to understand the four factors of leadership. Anyone can do almost anything with unlimited resources. The leader finds a way to do great things with limited resources. No matter what kind of leader you have been in the past, you can decide to be a new and different leader, a better leader tomorrow.

Counseling is a fundamental responsibility of every leader. Leaders at all levels have a responsibility to assist and develop subordinates. Counseling requires that a leaders actions demonstrate knowledge, understanding, judgment, and ability. Of a leaders traits or characteristics in promoting effective counseling, a caring attitude is the most important.

A great leader must be able to set goals and have good time management skills. Goals give a sense of direction and purpose, force us to plan ahead, give us a clear understanding of what is expected. Self-disciplined people know how to set a goal, define the steps to accomplish the goal, and take each step, even though each one might be more painful than the one before. Such planning refreshes your outlook and reinforces your determination to move forward.

Stay healthy. Only then do you have the equipment, the brainpower and physical power necessary to recognize, analyze and manage problems. Get plenty of rest, exercise regularly, eat well and watch your diet, and keep a clean conscience. Learn how to handle the stress in your life.

As a leader, you are responsible for understanding and directly transmitting values to your people. Ethical responsibilities such as beliefs, values, norms, and character and an ethical decision making process. Whether you like it or not, you are on display at all times. Your actions say much more than your words. Subordinates will watch you carefully and imitate your behavior. You must accept the obligation to be a worthy role model and you cannot ignore the effect your behavior has on others.

We have explored the environment, spread across the face of the globe, developed concepts and ideas. We have built settlements, machines, languages and societies. We have emptied our waste in, on, and around this big blue planet of ours that we call home. We have added strange new man-made chemicals to this planet. No one knows exactly how great the ultimate consequences of these changes may be. Actions undertaken in the sudden glare of a crisis will not provide a long-term solution to problems that have been slowly building for many decades. Just as a crash diet cannot correct an overweight problem of many years standing.

I believe that providing input is the key to success. If you truly want a good system to become stronger, then you take the time to provide written input.