Want to be highly successful as a thought leader? "Love talk": talk about the things you love and communicate with love.

Leaders have many skills that they need to acquire over the course of their lives but one of the most overlooked skill is the skill to love, to talk about it, and to communicate with it.

Love may sound like a cheesy word but it goes deeper than the romantic love everyone knows either by hearing about it or experiencing it.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

The definition of love is what a leader needs to be, but is often forgotten in this cut throat world we have now where survival of the fittest seems to have become a norm.

Leaders face challenges everyday and sometimes it might look like there is no light at the end of the tunnel but with love, no challenge will be enough to bring you down. Tie love and communication together and as a team and as an industry you can survive.

In my article: "On becoming a thought leader or an industry leader." I have defined what I think a leader is, and one of the most important part of being a leader is knowing to communicate.

Words are powerful so choose what you talk about. Lost about what you want to talk about? Love is the answer. Talk about the things that you love with love. 

As a child, I’ve already loved talking to people. I was outgoing and was considered quite a talkative child. As I grew up and became a teenager I was still talkative but I learned to control the things that I say because it was at this age that I started realizing that words can strongly affect people especially hurtful words.

When people says hurtful words towards me, my heart really tends to squeeze itself and sometimes it hurts so bad that I feel like I might as well die. This is why I told myself since I don’t want people to say hurtful things toward me I should also speak of good things. When I see anything I dislike regarding a person, I first think very hard if it really needs to be pointed out. If the answer is yes, I think of a way on how I can say it on the most desirable level.

A leader works with a team, a team is made up of people and thus it is important to avoid hurting people with brash words and criticism.

When you talk about the things that you love, with love you take yourself and others into consideration. Sure not everyone might agree with your opinion but with love you will try to understand where they are coming from and you will learn not to push your opinions towards them and you will respect them.

Everyone already experiences a certain level of negativity and toxicity levels in their lives. As leaders we want to help our team to feel good and in turn be productive. We want to be able to connect with our members better and we can do this if we share positive things they can connect with to enrich their lives.

Are you talking about the things you love with love right now?

This post is inspired by my blog post on what makes a great marketer

About the Featured Photo:

The original image is a from Unsplash. Did you know birds can teach us many things about leadership?