Become a Thought Leader

Thought Leadership is a part of the outcome-based mix used for any Personal Branding project. Your organization’s brand would be a mechanical representation of what you do without emotions.

People’s everyday life seems profoundly emotional, experiencing at least one emotion 90% of the time.

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It is typically either the founding or leadership team of an organization that brings that emotion. The more you place stimulus for emotion to occur, the more will your audience fall in love with your brand.

52-Week Thought Leadership course curriculum

The entire course is anchored in seven actions called the ‘7 karma of thought leadership.’

Each karma (or action) can be fulfilled by developing a specific set of skills, qualities, mindset shifts, and technical know-how. These seven actions are inspired by the seven colors of a rainbow. As you progress, you will see the colors change. Here is the weekly classification of the course’s curriculum.

Prep weeks	Stay prepared with these before you get into the full groove.
Week -1	Personal Branding mix
Week 0	Understanding 7 actions of thought leadership

Week 1 to 7 Think	Thinking is the fundamental action for any thought.
Visualize	What you see when your eyes are shut is what you will see when opening your eyes… Close your eyes and picture it. You will see it slowly evolve and emerge before your shut your eyes and an open mind. That is ‘Visual Imagery’.
Self-aware	It is not so much about what you wear on your body. It is much to do with what you wear on your mind.
Listen	Inner speech. Listen to what your heart says. Listen to everything. Your guiding self will tell you where to stop.
Articulate	Word-by-word, write down who you want to be. Right from how you should look like, feel like, be like, think like, and live like. Who is this person that you are calling “me”.
Inspire	There’s always something to draw inspiration from the past. Use your role models and their work.
Build a Theory	Build a strong foundation of knowledge to build a theory or argument before presenting it. Foundation.
Clairvoyant	This is a supernatural power, beyond clarity. You can see connections and meaning that others don’t see. This is unique to your natural Self.

Week 8 – 12: Discover	Discover about yourself and about what do you have and not have for real. It could be money or mindset. It is also about figuring out what resources you have to achieve your end goal.
Curious	What’s next? Why? How? For whom? These questions should be on repeat mode.
Audacious	Set a goal and process that is audacious enough. It may seem too big, to begin with. But, when you start you will see how small it is when you are in the future. It will seem closer than farther.
Vulnerable	It takes courage to break a social norm and stand unaccepted before a tribe that you actually want to belong to. That’s being vulnerable.
Find a Niche	Find something that you are really good at. Loving and being loyal to your niche is what sets you apart.
Journey	Be cognizant of how your journey will look like. Carve a journey to become a thought leader. It is unique.

Week 13 – 20: Treatise	It involves coming to a consensus with yourself, your partners, your friends, and your entire ecosystem.
Dear Me,	Relationship with the Self
Structure	Thoughts are arranged in a cohesive structure for the idea to emerge and evolve
Environment	Everything needed for the necessary stimuli to spark the right thoughts.
Experiences	What are the defining moments and how you respond to them?
Dharma	This is your rulebook of the game and exceptions too.
Anchor	They hold you without moving astray.
Ecosystem	A place where dots are connected and enable easy access for the goal to be achieved. It’s like saying everything is in place.
Allies	Gain some advocates and champions who believe in you.

Week 21 – 30: Emerge	There are 10 qualities or skills so to say that help you emerge into your new self. It helps you stick around with your goal.
Acknowledge	Begin by recognizing what you have and what you don’t have. A great beginning to craft a new Self.
Propound	Build a strong foundation of knowledge to build a theory or argument before presenting it. Foundation. Know-how Foundation.
Committed	Like a leech, just stick to what you told yourself once upon a time.
Magnetic	When you are magnetized to your goal. Your audience is magnetized to you.
Authentic	Being heartful. Faking is evident.
Fluid	Inspired by an Ameoba. It takes its shape and adapts to the environment. Make your fluid but anchored to your goal.
Courage	It also means the courage to rise and to fail and not be found among the mighty.
Trust	Surrender the risk to that moment of uncertainty. It is during the uncertain times when you need Trust the most.
Surrogacy	No one talks about it because this is hard. It is to bear the effort and carry the load but not own the result. Detached attachment.
Accountable	Find someone or a process that makes you accountable for your actions. An accountability partner is a must.

Week 31- 38: Repeat	Many times, people ignore this assuming that things are all in place, but when we repeat a process in different circumstances we realize how it needs to be further tweaked for perfection.
Throughput	A combination of speed, sequence, and consistency is what builds Throughput.
Systems	The end result is automation and predictability. Systems put your ‘idea churning machine’ on auto-pilot mode.
Experiment	Experiments are a lot easy to practice because they are benchmarked against true or false. There is no success or failure.
One Thing	Focus is a by-product when you have only one thing to work on. Just ONE THING.
Priority	Just the most important sticks to the present moment. Nothing else.
Accommodate	Criticisms and feedback need room to breathe as much as praises and laurels.
Rewire	Settle the unsettled and embrace what you cherish. Reset your course and get started.
Ownership	When ideas and efforts are your own, the results also belong to you. Own everything – good and bad.

Week 39 – 45: Evolve	Spend some time shedding certain aspects about yourself and regathering a new self.
Pause	Make space for silence. Make room for new things to be presented to you.
Deliberate	How to make things better to live in a world that you envision and a future that you want to build. It’s all about developing an idea and making it better.
Coalesce	Meet someone and something new, now coalesce that with your idea for a better version.
Rhythm	Orchestrate. Bring together everything at the right frequency that develops a rhythm between you and your audience.
Innovate	Try combinations and spaces that you have never tried before. Join dots that you never connected before.
Shift	You no longer live in the same plane and revolve on the same trajectory. Go for a moonshot.
Transcend	Settling into a new plane than where you were, means you need to be a different person than who you were in the earlier plane.

Week 46 – 52: Amplify	Amplify sounds like you want to make it loud, but is actually showcasing only what is important.
Empathy	You can amplify your intentions only when you know what the other person is experiencing.
Personalize	Every person is unique. Given them what they need.
Shared Purpose	A shared purpose binds people at a large scale. This is beyond personal preferences.
Approachable	Only angels can reach you on Cloud 9. People on Earth need you.
Attract	Use your magnetic charisma to attract the right set of people over and over again.
Resonance	Find emotions, habits, and behaviors that resonate with the audience.
Hooked	Use anchors to keep your audience hooked to the emotions and purpose that you share with each other.
Excellence	Excellence is a habit. Once you get a hang of it, excellence becomes your second nature.

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