Gather Your DREAM Team Advisory Board of the Best Leaders

Take some personal advice of great people of the past. They have wisdom and are willing to share it with you.

Many great leaders have a private advisory board that they seek advice from regularly. The people on these boards, in some cases, consist of the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and other historically influential figures. Sometimes these people are their own parents, teachers, mentors, or coaches in their past. These are people that they know, or may have studied, or are somewhat familiar with their writings or thinking so they feel as though they have some knowledge of their thought processes.

The nice thing about these boards is that they can be gathered in a minute, they are free, and available to anyone. The only requirement for the use of these boards is that you have a basic knowledge of these people.

The way to seek counsel from your own private advisory board is to perform the following simple steps:

1)      Find a quiet place where you can be alone and undisturbed.

2)      Gather these people in your mind that you wish to seek advice from.

3)      Pose the question to each one of them as if they are in the room with you and “listen” to their response.

4)      “Allow” them to react to each other’s comments in the way that you assume that they would.

5)      Take away from this virtual meeting the advice that these people can provide and use it accordingly.

This exercise is not designed to be a séance or an attempt to reach across spiritual or religious lines. It is simply away for us to reach into our thoughts and memories to try and understand how people that were important to us might deal with questions or situations that we currently have. Many great leaders have used forms of this private advisory board for years, and often with surprisingly inspirational success. It taps into areas of our thoughts that we may not normally use in the settings that we find ourselves in a daily routine.