Leadership is the adorned quality of the modern age. These leaders are the bright-eyed, ‘out-there’individuals with big ideas and far too much energy, and they run the world. They are in many aspects all we wish to be- they are confident, clever and quirky, and they have an unparalleled zest for life- and yet too often our quest for leadership greatness is restricted by fear, confusion and laziness. Anyone who possesses a true and deep desire to become a great leader in the world will know each of these restrictions in regrettable detail, and anyone who has surpassed them will recognise that they are mere hurdles, disguised as brick walls.

In full confidence I relay that leadership is an overwhelmingly uplifting quality in itself- leaders feel empowered and motivated purely because they are leaders, manifesting in a self-fulfilling cycle. More to the point, leadership as a quality is every bit as enviable as it is made out to be, perhaps more so. So we’ve got to chase it, we’ve got to seek out every bit of motivation we can find so that we may one day be the ones giving it!

Leaders seem to have everything cut out for them. Opportunities fall in their laps, money is thrown their way and people hang onto their every word! THIS IS NOT LUCK. It’s a state of the mind that attracts prosperity. Intuition should be sufficient to prove the truth of this. If you were to make a decision right now to simply ‘be awesome’; if you were to sit bolt upright, open your eyes wide and do whatever it is you do with gusto and an inner sense of certainty, I would not believe you if you told me you weren’t luckier that day than any other. Luck is a non-existent phenomenon to the true leader, who works to build a dream, and is eager to get up in the morning and live that dream.

This piece would bear gaps without mention of Gary Player, with his famous statement‘The more I practise, the luckier I get’. Work with unequalled determination, in pursuit of an objective you want more desperately than tomorrow, and you will find yourself luckier and luckier every day.