Conscious Self-leadership Practical Psychology club Stockholm

Dear all,
Conscious Self-leadership?!
let me start this presentation uniquely - with the text by writter, philosopher and club member Gunnar Björklund, author to a book: "Self-Reflections: There Is No More Time to Lose"

To be a conscious self-leader is to dare to be authentic self.
It is to tell yourself: I will not walk on my knees just because others are afraid to stand up.
To dare to be different is to accept that you will become a problem. Not because you are doing something wrong, but because your mere existence exposes how much some people have compromised themselves. You become a mirror. And many people hate mirrors that show the truth.
To stand up for your values sometimes means that you stop being neutral. And in a world where neutrality is the social lubricant, the person who stands firm automatically may be see as dangerous — someone who forces others to take a position, make a decision, someone who shatters illusions and makes it uncomfortable to live at half-capacity.
To truly be who you are requires that you stop needing to be understood.
Some people will never understand anyway, because they do not even dare to look in the direction where you are already standing.
Not giving in over the smallest things is not about stubbornness. It is about self-respect — about not selling your inner self for small social rewards:
a laugh here, an approval there, a “you are so reasonable” from people who have rarely dared to be truly alive themselves.
Every time you bend, you teach your body to be afraid.
Every time you remain standing, you teach your soul to trust itself.
To stand upright within yourself, without fearing what others may think, means you are no longer playing their game. It means realizing that their opinions are often not thoughts at all, but reactive reflexes — defense mechanisms, automatic behavior, and sometimes simply cowardice.
To stand upright within yourself, without fearing what others may believe, is to know that rumors never kill you. Self-betrayal does.

And let us be honest: there are people who do not want you to walk your own path. Not because it is wrong, but because it reminds them that they never did.

When you walk your own path, you will be called arrogant, extreme, difficult, troublesome, or provocative. These are labels — labels people use when they can no longer control you.
But here is the truth they rarely say out loud: they feel the power within you, something they themselves never dared to release.
Being yourself has a cost. Sometimes you pay with misunderstanding, loneliness, and resistance.
But not being yourself costs everything — slowly, silently, from within.
So remain standing when the pressure comes.
Stand upright when the wind blows.
Stand firm when the world tries to sand down your edges.
Because the world does not need more people who only adapt.
It needs more people who dare to stand up — for themselves and for others — and who refuse to bend.
So show your backbone and dare. Dare to stand up.

by author of the book— Self-Reflections: There Is No More Time to Lose

Take a moment and think - what thoughts these insights brings to you?
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