Second principle of leadership from the feminine part - surrender to powerlessness

I’m truly fascinated by how the concept of power changes in the context of leadership from the feminine principle. The ultimate power comes from surrender to powerlessness. This, when truly embraced, has dramatic consequences. The feminine leader within you already knows that a sense of control over your company or your life is an illusion. Of course, our choices do matter. We can move towards things that attract us and evolve past personal limitations. We can achieve things we previously thought were impossible. We can choose A over B and every choice we take has tangible consequences. Yet while these things are true, in the bigger scheme of things, the sense of control they may give us is an illusion. There are bigger forces and dynamics at play. The more I try to force things to go along with my plan, the more they resist. The more I’m in touch with myself, the more I recognise I’m happiest when tuned into guidance on where and how my talents are best used, surrendering and listening in other than trying to pursue a plan I created for myself. As I act from this place of attunement, things flow with me instead of resisting.

When you are prepared to move out of the way, and truly recognise your powerlessness, paradoxically a sense of deeper power and agency emerges. This doesn’t happen instantaneously. You need to be prepared to sit with the silence within, and listen. More often than not, you’ll be tempted to fill the silence with some sort of a plan or new agenda because it’s very uncomfortable for my mind not to know. But if you hold out, sooner or later there’s a sense of clarity about the next steps, which emerges from a place beyond your personal agenda, beyond your desire to be recognised as decisive and effective. As your inner journey evolves, and trust in yourself increases, you will start to move from a place of surrender and listening in more and more, both in life and in business.

Read about other principles of leadership from the feminine part here