Many of us at this time of year will have made at least one New Years Resolution in order to help improve our life in 2011, and that is likely to consist of either ridding ourselves of something that we have put up with in the past or on seeing something we want to improve in our life, setting a strategy to achieve it over the next 12 months.

It may interest you to know that these same basic elements make up 3 of the 5 essentials to successful long term personal, business or leadership development, synonymous with every hero's journey in mythology, rite of passage in tribal society and transformation within nature.

In order to exact permanent change within your existence, you will need to indeed rid yourself of all the things that have held you back in the past, so you can see the bigger picture for your life and then build a strategy of how to get there.

With the hero these 3 steps are represented by taking the path less traveled, going into the woods and then knowing the way, with the ancient peoples it was separating yourself from society, spending time in the wilderness and then returning. With the butterfly it is stopping life as a caterpillar, entering into chrysalis and then emerging.

With all we must add another essential element to that list and fully take responsibility for that change to commence and then commit to seeing it through because it is only then when all those 4 essentials start to come into alignment that the 5th, your own authentic leadership, the hero, heroine, adult or butterfly can come into existence.

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Helping individuals to find their life's purpose and companies form common purposes to engage more of their employees in the work that they do.

I believe we are entering unprecedented times where the combination of various economic and environmental crisis are making us think very differently about how we exist more authentically and sustainably. The solutions to these problems lie with more and more people being aware of their purpose beyond solely making profit and in turn becoming more productive, energised and efficient ready to lead our society forward with their own authentic leadership.

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