When we talk about leadership, each and everyone have different thoughts about it. Some say that leaders are born. Some say that they are made. Some even say that everybody is a leader because at least they have to lead themselves.
Well, leadership is not a single dimensional concept. It has many aspects. It is not a deconstructed plot from a short story. It is a continuous struggle of decision making, prioritizing things and dealing with failures. It is much more than a position and sometimes not even related to the position. It is a choice. In other word, everybody has a choice to become a leader.
We live with a lot of identities in our lives. Some of the identities are personal (like a son or a husband) while some are professional (like a project manager or a writer). In this sense, becoming a leader in our professional lives is a choice. However, it doesn’t mean that we choose to become leaders today and then we become leaders tomorrow.
Life is about choices. We choose this over that all the time. We choose to do or not to do, to love or to hate, to be compassionate or to be greedy, to learn from failures or to ruminate our failures.
Imagine a beautiful house. We do not just set up a beautiful house from thin air but we build the house with small pieces that will make it beautiful. Similarly, what we choose in our daily lives, either big or small, they collectively decide our leadership.
To put all of this in a single sentence, leadership is a choice and it is developed as the product of small choices we make in our everyday lives.