High Performance Mindset | Learn from World-Class Leaders, Consultants, Athletes & Coaches about Mindset - 482: How to Lead with Intention

Episode Date: February 22, 2022

Everyone is a leader. As a leader, you are leading yourself and leading others towards a common goal or purpose. You will not be effective at leading others until you’re first effective at leading yourself. In this episode, Dr. Cindra talks about how we can each lead ourselves more intentionally.   This Week’s Power Phrase: “I show up in this world with intention.”  This Week’s Quote: “To lead yourself, use your head. To lead others, use your heart.” John Maxwell

Hi friends, my name is Dr. Sindhra Kampoff, a national leader in the field of sport and performance psychology. Every week I'm on the local radio sharing my top tips on exactly how to develop the mindset of the world's best, so you can accomplish all your dreams. Get ready for a jammed, packed episode focused on practical tips to help you get after your goals and step out of your comfort zone. Let's go. Dr. Cinder Kampoff joining us on the phone today, and we're talking about how to lead with

intention. Cinder, you start us off with a quote. I love this quote by John Maxwell, and he said, to lead yourself, use your head, to lead others, use your heart. So what inspired this topic for you today? Well, I think about this topic of leadership, and sometimes people say, well, I don't really lead. But actually, everyone is a leader. First, we lead ourselves, and then we do lead others. You know, for example, no matter how old you are, you might lead members of your family, or you lead your friends at school, or at work, you might be a leader, right? In all ways, you know, we're all a leader in some way.

And we really need to lead ourselves first before we lead others. And that means leading with our own mindset. And when we're leading ourselves first, we lead more, you know, people more powerfully. And so how do we think about that and make that an intention to lead ourselves? So Lisa, I spend a lot of time coaching people one-on-one. And the first conversation I have with a lot of people when I coach them is we talk about this idea of leading intentionally. And it really is about, you know, considering how you want to lead yourself first. What does that actually mean to you? And when we become more aware of how we

influence others, we can lead ourselves more intentionally. We understand our strengths, maybe the areas we want to keep growing in. But this idea is called self-leadership. And it's really, you know, we really need to lead ourselves first before we can really influence people the way we want to. And so what do we do when we're leading intentionally? What is it that we're doing? I think the first step that we really need to think about is we do when we're leading intentionally? what is the vision we're going after? And we decide maybe even how we want to be remembered by those people that we lead. And then we take action really intentionally or purposefully towards that. So what's the first thing that we do? The first thing that you'd want to do is think about what does it mean to you to be an intentional leader?

Like, what does it mean to you to be intentional with either leading yourself or leading others? And that's the first step. And then there's three other questions we could ask ourselves. We could ask ourselves, you know, what values do we want to guide us? How do we want to be described by those that we lead? And then, you know, what's the first step that we can do to lead in that way? And then what do you do next? So the next I would say is to think about, all right, you know, what is, how do you want to lead intentionally? Where's the gaps? Meaning where are you now compared to where you want to be? And then just, you know, every day, take one step towards closing that gap. And sometimes we can feel really overwhelmed

when we're thinking about, you know, intentionally showing up the way that we want to, but just, just take one step forward towards your vision today. Keep moving forward. So how do you summarize today for us then? Well, today we talked about, you know, everyone is a leader, even though that you might not think you are. And so to be the most effective leader you can be, we first have to lead ourselves. And that means, you know, being intentional with it,

and then we can lead others more powerfully. And when reflecting on what's important to you, you can just lead with more, you know, with a stronger ability to really lead the way that you want to lead. Cinder, you usually leave us with a power phrase, something that can help us take us through with this idea. What is the power phrase today? I show up in this world with What is the power phrase today? I show up in this world with intention is the power phrase today. I like that. If people want to get in touch with you, follow along with what you do, check out your books or some of the talks that you give. Where do we go?

You can go over to Dr. Sindra, so D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A. And I have a book called Beyond Grit. So drsindra.com is where you can go over there and you can find the book about grit. And then I have another book coming out this spring where I talk a little bit about the topic today about leading intentionally. We'll look forward to that. Cindra, thanks for spending some time with us today. Thank you, Lisa. Way to go for finishing another episode of the High Performance Mindset. I'm giving you a virtual fist pump. Holy cow, did that go by way too fast for anyone else? If you want more, remember to subscribe.

And you can head over to Dr. Sindra for show notes. And to join my exclusive community for high performers, where you get access to videos about mindset each week. So again, you can head over to Dr. Sindra. That's D-R-C-I-N-D-R-A dot com. See you next week.