One of the most challenging things you can do is to lead yourself. It’s easy to tell others what they should do but it’s much harder to do it yourself. For close to 15 years I have consulted as an integrative health practitioner, advising people how best to address their health problems. Often the path to a solution wasn't as simple as taking a bunch of supplements. Behaviour change was required to implement dietary or lifestyle changes.

Behaviour change is hard and can be difficult to execute. I can attest to how hard it was because I was crafting solutions for others but not implementing those solutions in my own life. I was not supporting my physical and in turn mental well-being as well as I could. I felt like a fraud. It took a decisive moment to commit to going for version 2.0 of me and to to truly lead myself. Coming to that decision of committing to a better version of you can come about in many ways. It can be hitting rock bottom in your life, having a health scare, losing a loved one or just evolving your thinking to the point that you know a change is inevitable.

Matt Church, founder of Thought Leaders Global, public speaker and author, talks in his book “Rise Up” about the importance of being above the line. To be the most caring, courageous, compassionate, grateful and appreciative person we can be places us above the line. When we lead ourselves in this way it makes leading others easier. Of course nobody is going to be above the line all of the time. In fact many of us may now realise that we spend most, if not all of our time below the line. We operate from a place of fear, overwhelm, impatience, judgement and taking what we have for granted. I believe identifying what triggers us to operate below the line is the first step in helping us gain the awareness required to catch ourselves and lifting ourselves up and above the line.

When we are fortunate enough to have control over our choices we can decide to improve ourselves. Leading ourselves well comes back to making the decision to be better. To go for Human 2.0 and then we honour that decision by committing to it and being consistent with it.