All engines need a tune-up at regular intervals. It does not matter if we are talking about a lawn-mower engine, Cadillac, or Lear Jet – engines need to be serviced. Without it they will not perform at their best. This blog is about considering reflective questions that will assist you in tuning up your leadership capabilities.

Stephen Covey stated once there is no better way to inform and expand your mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Set aside time and a journal and respond to the following 10 reflection questions.

1. All growing leaders are readers, so am I allocating adequate time each week to read and think?
2. Am I willing to cut back on some of my leisure time activities in order to devote more time to solitude and reading and reflection?
3. What is the value of pondering and reflecting on the ideas I have encountered during my reading time?
4. What is the benefit of rereading a book or relistening to an audio teaching?
5. Why is it important to be life learners of the business that I am involved in?
6. Am I reading too fast? Am I going through books too quickly that I am not absorbing the principles that I am reading?
7. What three new principles will i share with my team this week?
8. What are the top leaders of my industry reading presently?
9. What action am I delaying today?
10. Would it be great to have Peter Drucker, Jim Collins, Stephen Covey and others as mentors? You can, they have all wrote books!